February 2006

Economics and Culture of Australian and French Wine

Lynne Kiesling Charles Bremner is the (London) Times Paris correspondent, and he had an interesting post the other day about the economics and culture of French and Australian wine: Australia’s success at selling its supposedly simple-minded wines has now created something of a French-style grape glut around Adelaide, with producers turning out too much plonk …

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Knitting Olympics

Lynne Kiesling OK, I’m throwing my knitting lot in with two teams, fair isle knit team and team Chicago: For you non-knitters, here’s the challenge: cast on a new project that stretches your skills during the opening ceremonies, and finish it by the time the Olympics end. My stretch: multi-color fair isle, which I’ve never …

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Complexity Blog

Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Ian at Truck and Barter for his pointer to Complexity Blog, from two Michigan graduate students. They are certainly hitting on some topics that overlap with our interests here at KP.