November 2010
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Luigi Zingales - I politici italiani vadano a... →
In America, almeno durante la campagna elettorale, c’è chi sente il bisogno di difendere l’interesse del mercato anche quando contrasta con l’interesse dei grossi capitalisti. In Italia, questa distinzione è perduta tra una sinistra che ancora diffida del mercato e una destra che è posseduta da un capitalista.
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Sarah Palin - A Thanksgiving Message to All 57... →
My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s....
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20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web →
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Ed Zwick on How to Shoot a Sex Scene →
The sex in Love and Other Drugs actually does feel real: it elevates the film from a standard romantic comedy to a movie for adults. Hathaway falls in love with a pharmaceutical rep played by Jake Gyllenhaal, and their pillow talk is part of their relationship. We asked Zwick to talk about sex, and how to shoot a sex scene.
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Start-Up City - Edward L. Glaeser - City Journal →
Great American cities were never built by their governments; the true heart of a city is the entrepreneurial energy that it contains. That rule applies especially strongly to New York, a city that will never be a good place for firms that want to stand still and produce as cheaply as possible. Rather, New York’s survival hinges on coming up with new ideas and new businesses. For centuries, Gotham...
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L’Inter ha stabilito nella stagione 2004-05 la più lunga serie di pareggi consecutivi nel campionato di Serie A: 7, dalla 7ª alla 13ª giornata. Sempre in quell’anno ha stabilito il record di pareggi complessivi per un campionato a 20 squadre: 18 pari in 38 partite.
L’Inter è la squadra che vanta il maggior numero di partecipazioni alla Coppa UEFA. Escludendo le edizioni della...
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My Porn Watching Pig Boyfriend →
Best Craigslist posting ever.
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Tim Harford — The Top 10 Economists on Twitter →
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“Pezzo molto completo
Come uomo mi è sempre piaciuto andare nei distretti...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 24 novembre 2010
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When Sounds Make Sense: Aaaaw to Zzzzzd & The... →
Dictionaries are always diverting, but lexical studies focusing on a special group of words or word-like sounds are passports to a new world, and not always a terrestrial one
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Parents are junkies - Shankar Vedantam - Slate... →
If parenthood sucks, why do we love it? Because we’re addicted.
[via Freakonomics]
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task... →
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and exploding backlogs. Individual speed of job completion cannot be explained only in terms of effort, ability and experience: work scheduling is a crucial “input” that cannot be omitted from the...
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“La gelataia di via Washington è la più bella donna di Milano (bionda, piccola,...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 21 novembre 2010
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Tweets and Trades - The Information Content of... →
Microblogging forums have become a vibrant online platform to exchange trading ideas and other stock-related information. Using methods from computational linguistics, we analyze roughly 250,000 stock-related microblogging messages, so-called tweets, on a daily basis for the first 6 months of 2010. Our study compares the tweets’ sentiment, message volume, and level of agreement with the...
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“Retirement is for young people. I’m too old to retire. I would have...”
– Sir Alex Ferguson
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Philosophy Bites - What Is Philosophy?
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Taking von Mises to pieces. Why is the Austrian... →
Being associated with Mr Beck will not persuade many academics to take Austrian economic ideas seriously. Given the repeated credit booms and busts of the past 40 years, that may be a pity.
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“Sul metrò a Milano (pieno di viaggiatori). Un estraneo: “Scusi signorina, posso...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 18 novembre 2010
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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - The... →
The diamond invention is far more than a monopoly for fixing diamond prices; it is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth, power, and romance. To achieve this goal, De Beers had to control demand as well as supply. Both women and men had to be made to perceive diamonds not as marketable precious stones but as an inseparable part of courtship...
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Refudiate →
New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2010 Word of the Year [via Camillo]
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Bring On the Fat, Bring On the Taste. Celebrity... →
Celebrity chefs have slaved in haute cuisine kitchens and mastered the world’s most complex dishes. Today, they’re dedicating their culinary brain power to another challenge: How to cash in on the burger craze. Chefs such as French-trained Hubert Keller, all-American Bobby Flay and television star Emeril Lagasse are devoting their expertise to the once-humble hamburger. The rapidly...
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Il 15 giugno del 1995 l’uomo simbolo della Grande Inter di Moratti padre e Riccardo Sogliano, che curavano il mercato nerazzurro, parteciparono a una riunione di operatori di mercato a Bologna (all’epoca si usava organizzare questi meeting tre o quattro volte al mese). Il Baffo si fermò a conversare con due giornalisti che spingevano per l’acquisto di Ronaldo. Mazzola lo bocciò così:...
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Open Shakespeare →
Open Shakespeare combines literary criticism and the internet, to produce a completely free and open set of tools for appreciating the Bard. Currently you can use our website to read all of Shakespeare, including brief individual introductions to each play, perform rudimentary statistical analysis, compare texts side by side, search and annotate any of Shakespeare’s works and much more…
[via...
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