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On (speed) dating preferences (in USA): some old stereotypes reconfirmed but also some news. Here’s the full paper (Fisman et al, QJE 2006) on which the Slate article linked above is based.
Category: Romania
Most promising photoblog in the ROblosphere
True talent is true talent and you can’t pass by without noticing it. So I decided not to. In my (always subjective, of course) opinion Cristina Grosan’s photoblog is the very best (young) photoblog I had the chance to fall upon, within the Romanian blogosphere.
→ Read more Quotes for week 21st to 27th of Oct ’07
Bărbata nu pentru o bere obişnuită se duce la Irish [Pub].
La patru dimineaţa zâmbetul chelnerului e un cadou.
Mezei Nelli, “Noapte Lunga la Timisoara”
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Zoitica, esti barbata!
Descoperirea saptamanii: de departe, cel mai promitator nou blog din ClujBlogRoll. Ingrediente majore in posturile de pana acum: stil, acel epsilon necesar de imprevizibilitate si, mai ales, elementul “exposure”. Un debut de exceptie (perfectibil, dar reusit) a carui implicatie nu poate fi decat “I’ll be returning soon, hungry for more” (yep, Anton Ego becoming my alter ego…).
→ Read more On Cluj, property prices and (local) ambitions
I’d have many problems with some of the ideas put forward in there (eg. Emil Boc’s role in Cluj’s development for instance is highly overrated– a cost-benefit analysis would most likely arrive at the opposite conclusion; the whole idea of the article is to convince people to invest in advertised property on that site, hence the general upward bias in the assessment; there is then the entirely ignored idea of spurious rises in property price, aka a possible bubble on everybody’s language etc.–
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