Lynne Kiesling OK, I said toodle pip, but this is too good … the Scotsman had an article today about Scottish bands that aren’t really Scottish (registration required), including two of my favorite bands: Lloyd Cole In so many ways, he is the archetypal Glaswegian. Rattlesnakes was the perfect west-end Glasgow record, and not just …
Lynne Kiesling As mentioned last week, both Mike and I will be at a conference this week, so posting is likely to be light unless something gets in one of our craws, so to speak. I recommend checking out Stumbling and Mumbling, a new-to-me economics blog (thanks to Newmark’s Door for the tip). His insights …
Lynne Kiesling In Sunday’s Telegraph Bjorn Lomborg had a commentary on climate change policy that is well worth a careful read and consideration. Global warming has become the obsession of our time. From governments and campaigners meeting for the climate summit in Buenos Aires right now we hear the incessant admonition: making global warming our …
Lynne Kiesling One of Bonny Doon’s missions in the Ca’ Del Solo line is to showcase underappreciated grapes. Malvasia Bianca is one such grape. It is dry, dry, dry, with a flavor of succulent but not lush or sweet fruits. It had a nice orange blossom nose that complemented the bone-dry flavor. The flavor also …
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Lynne Kiesling We rediscovered Bonny Doon this September, when we had a long weekend in the area. They are refreshing for lots of reasons: they don’t take themselves too seriously, they make good wine that is good value for money, and they are embracing the screw top. Three for three! The subtitle name of this …
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Lynne Kiesling We rediscovered Bonny Doon this September, when we had a long weekend in the area. They are refreshing for lots of reasons: they don’t take themselves too seriously, they make good wine that is good value for money, and they are embracing the screw top. Three for three! The subtitle name of this …
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Lynne Kiesling Today President Bush has nominated Samuel Bodman for Energy Secretary. Mr. Bodman has background in the financial industry (at Fidelity), in the chemical industry, and in academia as a professor of chemical engineering at Cornell. That sounds like a valuable combination of skills and experiences for the position.
Lynne Kiesling Congratulations to the Northwestern University Fed Challenge team, who have won this year’s Fed Challenge competition! One of team members, Derek Moeller, was also a student in my Environmental Economics class this quarter. Congrats!
Lynne Kiesling OK, subtle it’s not, but here goes: Kirchoff and Maxwell have laws About why electrons don’t pause But not about why to keep on the power We have to allow markets to flower
Michael Giberson Why are some people left-handed? Here’s some research reported in The Independent: It is known that left-handers tend to suffer more health problems and are at greater risk of serious accidents compared to right-handers. So, all other things being equal, the left-handed trait, which is largely genetic, should have died out long ago …
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