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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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Romania gets a B for its flag. Think anthems, next…

With too much indulgence, I’d say. For one, lack of originality (compare us to Greece, same grade!) should not be rewarded… The full rankings are here (alphabetical order here).

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Bet 1$ for your choice as this year’s Economics Nobelist

This seems a serious thing- all funds go to charity and the winners of the pool select the precise charity destination. And there are only a few more days to go, so hurry up!

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Best “Political Compass” so far. And where I stand on the left-right political-economic plan

You should do this ‘politiquiz‘ (particularly if you are already a politician/ decision maker or consider a career in this direction :-)). There are lots of things that can still be improved in it, but it is the best “where you stand on the political/ economic dimensions” questionnaire I’ve encountered so far.

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Econlinks for 13-05-’07

an excellent (wide-audience targeted) article on the upside of income inequality, by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy. Greg Mankiw also writes about it (and singles out exactly the fragment I wanted to single out).

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