Rafael Rob, Professor of Economics at U Penn was charged with the murder of his wife. Via Marginal Revolution. Certainly not the best way to draw public attention…
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…I was not meaning to suggest that people are dumb. There is such a thing as rational ignorance. It just does not pay most people to become well informed about how markets work.
→ Read more Broker’s Bier Börse (ideally, with Belgian beers…)
Neaparat ceva ce trebuie incercat la Cluj: un loc unde pretul berii creste sau scade in functie de cerere si oferta, analog ideii berlinezilor de la Broker’s Bier Börse (sfat gratuit, din nou- vezi si un entry asemanator pentru masa la restaurant– doar pentru cei intreprinzatori).
→ Read more Most important science news of 2006
After the science breakthrough from…Science, let me post a short entry on the most important science stories of 2006, according to Scientific American. Some highlights:
- Again on Perelman, the reluctant genious who solved the Poincaré conjecture
- Dark matter exists
- First invisibility cloak
The Buhai
A short but quite informative English text on what “buhai” means in Romanian (its most popular sense- that of a friction drum- that is; a second usage is also mentioned in the text, ie.
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