Plane turned around, passenger interrogated because... he was doing differential equations while olive-skinned.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/ …
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Inspired by: https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/728990870578597888 … If economists could not work on differential equations, maybe no Lehman crisis, no Trump nomination?
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@zeynep maybe the suspicious passenger wasn't comfortable with how the economist was solving for xThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@zeynep returns to own time to discover uncontrolled climate change as nonlinear physicists & atmospheric scientists couldn't collaborate. -
@dougbinks Umm, yikes. While destroying overly-complicated models in economics, hero paves way for interdisciplinary research to thrive?
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@zeynep what about the Gaussian copula? :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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