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- HOW BANKS PREPARED FOR A U.S. DEFAULT. (2)
- GREECE’S ADVANTAGE IN THE CHICKEN GAME. (2)
- Nick: That makes sense. It reminds me of the stories Pater Familias would tell me about how in Boston the person with...
- Dick Weisfelder: Greece seems to me to be playing a game that Karl Deutsch called “underdog.” While one...
- FOOTBALL PLAYERS DELIBERATELY CAUSING CONCUSSIONS? (3)
- Nick: It was my understanding that boxing gloves were to protect the puncher’s hands and not the...
- Dick Weisfelder: Remember the Roman arenas? Bare knuckled boxing? Such injuries were taken as natural and accepted in...
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This isn’t about football. Or even sportsmanship. Well, it is about sportsmanship. But what...
- A 25 % CHANCE OF A EURO DEFAULT? (1)
- Nick: The fact that this has gone on for so long is pretty perplexing. The Economist is referring back to articles it...
- DECIDING WHAT KIND OF PATIENT YOU ARE. (1)
- Dick Weisfelder: One can be very open to new technology, but also risk averse. The recent debates about how to...
- THE EUROZONE—A CHICKEN GAME WHERE EVERY MEMBER CAN BLOW IT UP? (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This is not a matter of chicken. These are all turkeys.
- PLAYING WITH MATCHES NEAR A GASOLINE TANK. (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: Why would the French care? As long as they take down Britain?
- NORWAY’S CHRISTMAS BUTTER SHORTAGE. (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: Christmas with a butter cookie shortage–in Scandinavia. This isn’t even Scrooge. This...
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
POLAR BEARS AND MARSHMALLOWS.
POLAR BEARS AND MARSHMALLOWS. Often when I read about animal intelligence I think of a news story about the Brookfield Zoo from a number of years ago—from a time when zoos were more lax about people feeding animals. Some of … Continue reading
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ALEX, THE PARROT.
ALEX, THE PARROT. Alex, the parrot, has died at the age of 31. This Economist article lists some of his accomplishments. He had a vocabulary of 150 words. His accomplishments would appear to require reasoning. He understood and could discuss … Continue reading
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PRUFROCK’S ETHERISED PATIENT.
PRUFROCK’S ETHERISED PATIENT. Jon Barnes in the review I posted on yesterday quotes an attack by C. S. Lewis on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: For twenty years I’ve stared my level best To see if evening—any evening—would … Continue reading
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AN ADDITIONAL EPILOGUE TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS? (POSSIBLE SPOILER).
AN ADDITIONAL EPILOGUE TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS? (POSSIBLE SPOILER). According to Jon Barnes in the review I posted about yesterday, Tolkien intended a further epilogue, set 16 years after the end of THE LORD OF THE RINGS. The … Continue reading
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GOOD PITCHERS WITH BAD RESULTS.
GOOD PITCHERS WITH BAD RESULTS. I remarked here that only good pitchers get a chance to lose twenty games in a year. Now Nick has posted an article on the pitchers in the last ten years who had the worst … Continue reading
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THE LAST LINE OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS (POSSIBLE SPOILER).
THE LAST LINE OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS (POSSIBLE SPOILER). Jon Barnes writes that “There is magic in the last line of THE LORD OF THE RINGS.” The line is spoken by Sam Gamgee as he returns to his … Continue reading
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LOSING ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS IN ONE DAY.
LOSING ONE HUNDRED THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS IN ONE DAY. Kids, I was in an economics class with a man (Victor Niederhoffer) who went on to lose one hundred thirty million dollars in a day. (He would have lost more, but … Continue reading
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WHY TECHNOLOGY WILL PREVENT A CONTESTED CONVENTION.
WHY TECHNOLOGY WILL PREVENT A CONTESTED CONVENTION. I have been posting on how I would like to see contested conventions of the kind they have in Canada and that we used to have in the United States. Michael Barone writes … Continue reading
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NEW LUDDITES.
NEW LUDDITES. Today’s Financial Times has a review by Edward Luce of MICROTRENDS by Mark Penn (Hillary Clinton’s pollster). One of Penn’s findings is that 17% of Americans have tried and rejected the internet. He calls them the “New Luddites.”
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STUBBORN TRUCKERS (COMMENT).
STUBBORN TRUCKERS (COMMENT). Molly commented about a trucker who took out two different bridges in one day. That trucker reminded me of the story about the trucker who earlier this year discovered his truck was six inches too high for … Continue reading
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