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  1. @igorcarron could be (although unlikely). But both papers are so patently bogus and thoroughly debunked that they hurt their own cause.
  2. Yet another article on "medical bankruptcies" relying on two highly flawed papers by Himmelstein et al. http://is.gd/53n1l
  3. Amazing that the Romans could build an empire without a positional decimal numeral system.
  4. Somehow, this works: RT @diefenbach: Geek jokes aren't like your jokes. http://bit.ly/07V07bT
  5. This video is positively bizarre, in an Aphex-Twin-kind-of-way: http://is.gd/5358X
  6. @CMastication whatever happened to scan() ?
  7. Maybe I am naive, but empirical finance literature on factor models seems way ahead of best practices in the financial industry.
  8. Respectfully disagreeing with L.Trevisan and S.Rao (both at UC Berkeley) on tuition increases at Cal http://bit.ly/7P726r
  9. Word of the day: "darth breather" http://is.gd/5347f
  10. The next Big Analytics company won't be SAS/IBM/Oracle, but Google/anyone able to bundle massive datasets and tools. http://bit.ly/4XWJ7i
  11. Many editorials, op-eds, and economic reports of the NYT are of dismal quality. Yet, I read them. Force of habit? Lack of alternatives?
  12. @CMastication but the article is about Dobbs running for president, then ascending to heaven.
  13. RT @EconTalker: Latest EconTalk is Carmen Reinhart talking about her book, "This Time is Different" and why it never is http://bit.ly/4E5lUu
  14. Economist: "Name a famous Belgian"? http://bit.ly/4DThYW That's easy! Jean Bourgain. http://bit.ly/08y9Mb4 #mathematics
  15. One of the first web art experiments, "The place" is still on after 15 years. It has aged well http://is.gd/51qa7 #art
  16. But really, who writes hatchet jobs like this NYT editorial on Goldman? Matt Taibbi??? http://bit.ly/08b2r7G #finance
  17. Nothing is more wonderful than a four-year old retelling a fairy tale.
  18. How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world http://is.gd/512yE (HT: @ealdent)
  19. In Italy you can bequeath your job! http://is.gd/50LRW thank the union (GCIL) for that. (HT: T.Cowen)
  20. Of all elementary conjectures I thought I would solve in college, Erdős-Szekeres is the best: http://bit.ly/4UxSzU #mathematics