Topalov v Kramnik – the end game
Apologies for not keeping you all up to date on the Great Match. My excuse - well I got less excited because Kramnik dug himself...
Statistical Headlines: 650,000
Obviously the biggest news of the day is the recent Lancet article which concludes that the number of excess deaths in Iraq since the war...
Social capital and TV
A clever bit of econometrics seems to confirm something that Mark Latham argued in his tome Civilizing Global Capital. That the tele undermines social...