Posts from — August 2007
links for 2007-08-30
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Renowned Mathematician’s Collected Papers
August 30, 2007 No Comments
“Hurricane recovery is class war by other means.”
Hurricane recovery is class war by other means.
August 30, 2007 Comments Off
links for 2007-08-29
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Experimental Economist
August 29, 2007 No Comments
More on Presentations
August 28, 2007 Comments Off
links for 2007-08-26
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Rebecca Ryan’s blog
August 26, 2007 No Comments
How I made my presentations a little better
So good I had to steal the entire post, below.
August 23, 2007 Comments Off
links for 2007-08-22
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Miller’s Experimental Economics Work
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Financial Crises in the 1890s and the 1990s: Must History Repeat?
J. Bradford Delong; Richard N. Cooper; Benjamin M. Friedman
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1999, No. 2. (1999), pp. 253-294.
August 22, 2007 No Comments
The Market as Wind Tunnel
Galloping Gertie:
As engineering failures go, the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ranks among the most visually arresting. When it was unveiled in June 1940, the bridge was the thrid largest suspension bridge in the world. It didn’t stay open long, because the bridge began to sway in high winds, so all traffic was banned from it. The bridge became known as Galloping Gertie, and on November 7, 1940, Gertie collapsed in a 42 mile per hour wind. The bridge was actually resonating, like a tuning fork, caused by the wind flowing over it. Here it is collapsing.
The ‘tuning fork’ theory has been known since ancient times: roman armies were trained to break their step going across bridges for fear of having the same effect as the wind on Galloping Gertie. One can see the effect of many people moving together on Norman Foster’s Millenium Bridge, below.
What has this to do with economics? Find out below.
August 22, 2007 Comments Off
Nobel Prize Winner Vernon Smith
August 22, 2007 Comments Off
Inbox Zero
I do this actually, as part of the GTD methodology. But here’s a nice and (audio-enhanced) version of the talk productivity guru Merlin Mann of 43folders gave to google employees on managing their mail. Interesting and timely, and a great example of an implementation of Garr Reynold’s tips on presentation and presenting information.
August 22, 2007 Comments Off
Knowledge Management
August 22, 2007 Comments Off
Mac Tales
I use a mac, and I’ll be putting together my courses this year in Pages and Numbers, and presenting them with Keynote. Complicated pics I’ll be generating with Mathematica, but for the most part it’ll be a mac app-only show, which is pleasing me no end. I can’t actually start any of this yet though, because I’m too busy looking at my desktop, which changes every minute thanks to a little application called Desklickr, a free app that downloads a random image from Flickr to my desktop and shows it there. It’s fascinating what you can see using this system, but it’s killed my morning. Between that and Facebook I’m surprised anyone get’s anything done at all.
I’ll aim to produce a small review of the iWork suite for professors and people interested in teaching, but I’ll wait until I’ve tested the stuff out on the students for a week or two to post it. As von Moltke says, “no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.”
August 22, 2007 Comments Off
links for 2007-08-21
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Interesting way of understanding media effects on information flow.
August 21, 2007 No Comments
links for 2007-08-20
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Brilliant Philosopher
August 20, 2007 No Comments
Economics, Translated
August 20, 2007 Comments Off
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links for 2007-08-18
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Great Post for EC4024
August 18, 2007 No Comments
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Some of Swift’s work digitised and available for free.
August 14, 2007 No Comments
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twitter blog thang
August 10, 2007 No Comments
