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 :-).
→ Read more Month: January 2008
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
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?
Is there or is there not?
→ Read moreIt 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.
Econlinks for 20-01-’08
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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.