Fantastic, simply fantastic! Maths, music (nod bad at all), fun and– the sine qua non— love, at work, together: I’ve just relived my entire college life :-). Never heard of the guys before, but they’ve surely got all my votes.
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Econlinks for 14-08-’07
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Ken Rogoff says that we might be “better red than dead” in the long run. I doubt most Central-Eastern Europeans would feel any close to comfortable with that. And that despite that the Vikings (the present-day ones) are rather reddish and pretty well still.
The King of Bongo Bong
I am quite surprised to realize that I knew next to nothing about bonobos until recently, while an absolute bonobo frenzy seems to have been going on for quite a while out there, stretching far beyond scientific curiosity.
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An interesting didactical short movie (20 min) by a team at the University of Aarhus, about teaching at the university level (link to the google video). The subject is built around the “constructive alignment” paradigm of John Biggs.
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Beware of great thinkers who advertise their conclusions without revealing their assumptions. I like economics because it insists on a higher standard.
Steven Landsburg, “The Armchair Economist”
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