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Apparently geckos have millions of tiny hairs on their feet (paws?) that adhere to almost any surface. As I recall, the individual hairs are...

We're still in stealth mode, so no details. Our product testing is going well and the beta release on 1/1/2006 looks like a realistic ta...

Nice Guardian profile . Trivers linked the evolution of altruism to that of an ability to detect cheaters. ...There are less dramatic exampl...

Derman and Taleb claim that you can derive Black-Scholes without assuming instantaneous replication of the option using cash and stock. (Th...

Barron's gives a nice analysis of historical earnings growth and P/E ratios for US equities. The inevitable conclusion? If history is a...

...through their purchases of mortgage-backed securities. Note the Bank of China trader thinks the Fed will keep the bubble going for at lea...

No, we're not talking about Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, or the Turing test . We're talking about bots invading online poker games ! Whil...

Robert Shiller, Yale economist and author of Irrational Exuberance, is profiled in this Times article . Shiller called the Nasdaq bubble, an...

It is well known among professionals that historical equity returns beat real estate returns by quite a margin. Successful companies genera...

Can we please have sensible science policy in the US before it is too late? Why are we allowing the UK and S. Korea to race ahead in this im...

DER SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH SINGAPORE'S LEE KUAN YEW "It's Stupid to be Afraid" Singapore's first-ever prime minis...

If you have any interest in Linux kernel development or software development in general, I recommend this podcast of a talk by Andrew Morto...

In recent posts I noted that returns to labor are going to be suppressed by the effective doubling of the labor pool since the end of the co...

The NY Times reports that India has become a hot destination for MBA interns from top schools in the US. Widespread use of English means th...

Not only are GM and Ford hurting, but huge parts supplier Delphi is threatening bankruptcy (WSJ) if their US labor costs cannot be adjusted...

Nice profile and interview. I highly recommend his non-fiction work on India (A Wounded Civilization, A Million Mutinies Now). Naipaul unde...

New paper, to appear on arxiv.org on Tuesday. Paper: hep-th/0508039 From: Stephen D. H. Hsu Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 03:15:50 GMT (21kb) Tit...

Most people will be shocked at how fast they are climbing the value chain. From this article (excerpted from Ted Fishman's book) in Inc...

Via Gene Expression : The dark-blue plot indicates Kurzweil/Moore's Law: it describes the doubling of computer instructions per second p...

Nice article here . For those who don't recognize the cartoon reference, it's from an old comic book ad for the Charles Atlas bodybu...

LSE professor John Gray on Thomas Friedman and globalization in NY Review of books . Globalization has no inherent tendency to promote the ...

The Economist summarizes China's impact on the world economy. The effective global labor force doubled in the last decade, but global c...

NBER working paper by Harvard economist R. Freeman: Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten US Economic Leaders...

An interesting PLoS interview with Neil Risch (via the blog Gene Expression .) Neil Risch (Caltech BS in math; PhD in biomathematics from ...

WSJ on the leadup to revaluation. Careful preprations began two years ago, but the Senate tariff threat determined the timing. Treasury off...