So the following Jeopardy video was going around the econo-blogosphere a few weeks ago…I’m a little horrified that a bunch of people who know random things like what the third longest river in the world is (the Yangtze, which is apparently even longer than previously thought) and the name of Robert E. Lee’s horse (Traveller, [...]
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I’ll Take “Things People Should Know About But Don’t” For $200, Alex…
November 18th, 2009 · 10 Comments
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Follow Up: If You’re Into TED Talks…
August 28th, 2009 · 5 Comments
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After posting Dan Pink’s TED talk yesterday, Jarret sends me the following:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pjGlYH-8AK8ffDa6o2bYlXg
along with the text “Not to be confused with the real TED spread…”
I couldn’t help but giggle. First, the spreadsheet is a catalog of every TED talk along with topic area, date, summary, etc. You could theoretically copy the spreadsheet and use [...]
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Follow Up: Ever Wonder Where All Of Your Money Goes?
August 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments
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(You can see the original post here.)
For those of you that liked the infographic on consumer spending, here is one in a similar vein, and in video form. (I couldn’t figure out how to embed the video in this post, sorry.) Some key lines:
Apparel and services: 3.2% - wow, I am well over [...]
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Ever Wonder Where All Of Your Money Goes?
July 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments
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I’m not sure how my RA does it, but he manages to find the most randomly awesome nerdy links and articles for me…it’s not even that I specifically ask, he just stumbles upon great things when perusing the world wide webiverse. (He can also play the hell out of a keyboard, but that is [...]
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The Economics Of Spare Change…
May 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments
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Hm…I suppose that title should read “The Economics Of Spare Change“, as I am referring to the newspaper and not to the stuff you find in your couch cushions. Anyhoo…
For those of you that don’t know, which I would imagine is most of you, Spare Change is, according to Wikipedia, “a street newspaper published [...]
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