Yes, I admit: my blog has been somewhat neglected recently… And unfortunately it will still be in that situation for a while, since I’m in the middle of some conferences and workshops in the US (plus it is summer and awfully hot here).
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Balanescu Quartet’s “The Model”
Although Kraftwerk’s original version of “The Model” (lyrics in English or German) is very good as well, my take is that The Balanescu Quartet (finally they’ve got a nice website: congrats!)
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The song of the weekend is John and Taupin’s great “Rocket Man“. And although I like a lot Kate Bush’s version as well, nothing can ever compare to Bill Shatner’s theatrical rendition of this masterpiece (superb youtube old videoclip, with an introduction by Bernie Taupin).
→ Read more A well deserved Pulitzer and pearls before lunch…
I must be the most ignorant person ever: I’ve only found out today (via Terry Tao) that this superb article by Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before breakfast“, likely the best I’ve ever read in the Washington Post, won a well deserved Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing about a month ago.
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Esther Duflo on a topic that deserves much more attention among policy makers: the need to insure the very poor against food price variability
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Here’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard so far, within the academic publishing business: deliberately slowing things down by sitting a whole month on each submission before doing anything with it.