An interesting article in The Times about the ongoing political scandal in Romania. I agree with the part of “dizzying heights of absurdity“. The rest is not impartial. → Read more
Category: quote
Movie scene of the week 6th to 12th of May ’07: Awe-stricken Salieri facing Mozart’s genius, in “Amadeus”
Milos Forman’s “Amadeus” is for now my absolute favourite (really and really my number 1!) movie of all times (I presented a while ago on this blog my current top 25).
→ Read more Quote of the week 6th to 12th of May ’07
Ceea ce mă nelinişteşte este usurinţa cu care anormalitatea capată în viaţa noastră o aparenţă de normalitate. Odată mai mult, îmi spun că important nu este ce face istoria din noi, important este ce facem noi cu ceea ce face istoria din noi.
→ Read more Quote for week 29th of April- 5th of May ’07
O chansons foregoing
You were a seven days’ wonder.
When you came out in the magazines
You created considerable stir in Chicago,
And now you are stale and worn out,
You’re a very depleted fashion,
A hoop-skirt, a calash,
An homely, transient antiquity.
→ Read more On why you need Maths for Economics and in general
Some young but very ambitious students (yeah, yeah, some of you are reading this post on my blog right now :-)) have been asking me why would they need to know Maths if they want to become economists (in industry or academia) and what Maths courses are most suitable for them and how much Maths would they actually use in practice anyway…
These are very interesting and very pertinent questions and obviously they were asked and answered before.
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