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Month: January 2008

Quiz: White to move and mate in 2 moves

Quiz: White to move and mate in 2 moves
Here’s a quick chess quiz, the ‘challenger number 10’ from the Corus Chess Tournament. Quite a nice one, took me a bit more than 6 (far too much!) minutes to solve: I am becoming rusty :-).
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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on January 23, 2008September 26, 2014Categories chess, Netherlands, quiz4 Comments on Quiz: White to move and mate in 2 moves

Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra can get you in a book nowadays. Plus the song of the day

I traveled each and every highway…

Here: I am even doing publicity for their tour :-). If you don’t know what this is all about, check this previous post of mine.  → Read more

Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on January 23, 2008September 26, 2014Categories creativity, fun, music, quote, song of the day, youtube

Hedonic marriage

I’ve just read (and recommend) this excellent short essay by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on the evolution from productive to hedonic marriage. Here’s an excerpt:

So what drives modern marriage?

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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on January 21, 2008September 26, 2014Categories economics

Is there or is there not?

It occurred to me that maybe there was no Romanian translation of the sentence “Do you know who I am?” — which would have been the first thing out of an American director’s mouth in a similar situation.

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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on January 20, 2008September 26, 2014Categories movies, quote, Romania

Econlinks for 20-01-’08

  • I made a mistake last time when I mentioned Gelman and Cai’s recent research on whether the US political parties would gain from shifting their position on the economic axis, focusing on the Kerry vs.
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Author Sebi BuhaiPosted on January 20, 2008September 26, 2014Categories economics, entrepreneurship, interview, politics, quote, Romania, USA

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