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As Michael Nielsen says the ultimate productivity blog is "Surprisingly good".

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White to play I Rogers vs T Tao 19. ? See game for solution. I thought I would display this game because it was won by the best Australian player of his generation - the recently retired Ian Rogers.

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It's hell out there.

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There are two interesting pieces in todays blogs and newspaper articles. The first is from Robert Reich http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/09/is-government-helping-or-hurting-business.html He makes the evident point that the Dow is hitting the 10,000 mark be...

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Short answer? No. Do financial advisors aid their clients in making wise investments? This column shows that investors who delegate their portfolio management achieve better results. But thats due to the fact that advisors tend to be matched with richer, older investors. In fa...

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Hint - it's not a comet!

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A paper called Blogometrics has created a ranking of economics bloggers and their blogs based on citations of their academic publications. Hat tip to The Economic Way of Thinking (Beaulier, Boettke and Prykitcho). My new, outstanding colleague in Econ, Frank Mixon, and his co-...

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White to play Imbaud vs Strumilo 9. ? See game for solution.

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As someone once said (was it TS Elliot?) human beings cant stand very much reality. Every now and again communities, and sometimes whole nations go potty - psychotic. Jonestown is perhaps one of the best examples, although it was a kind of concentrated community a cult which a...

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Another one bites the dust

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From Economics Journal Watch a nice story (pdf) of someone who wrote a well considered, and expressed paper which was rejected, only to massively complicate it with otiose mathematics - whereupon it was published by the first journal it was submitted to. Some highlights below...

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The Universe Today held a competition to ecapsulate the big bang, and/or the history of the universe in a tweet - which is limited to 140 characters. The top ten are here . My fave is below the fold. #sci140 starburst, molecule, amino acid, protein, cell development, cell divi...

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I saw The Boy in the Striped PJs on an international flight to the US. I thought it was a good film. It had a deliberate and rather insoucient simplicity and naivete. The resulting occasionally fantastical quality helped the story move along without worrying too much about bas...

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In comparative terms, Australia has only been mildly affected by the economic crisis. Whatever's enabled us to sidestep the worst of it so far, it's still fair to wonder whether this good fortune can last. A recent research update by two University of Chicago professors (hat-t...

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If you are of a certain age, you will know what people mean when they refer to "The War". You will be able to cast your mind back and imagine a type of blustery former warrior, of proud bearing, and fixed views on pretty much everything. Having been in the War, they were accor...

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As regulars to this site know, part of Troppo's mission (at least while I'm here) is to bring you a slow but steady stream of 'immortal games' defined as games in which amazing things happen culminating in an attach in which the ultimate victor sacrifices all the pieces they h...

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Krugman wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine last week entitled "How Did Economists Get It so Wrong?". This is unlikely to be news to anyone interested in economics. As usual with any of his efforts, it's received a lot of attention, most of it favourable. He's always...

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Karl Rove charges 7K, Sarah Palin 25K. Not to mention some of our own politicians. I think this is a terrific idea and I'm open for bids.

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Even if it's a bit long. Here .

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HT : Peter Martin

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