A beautifully turned article by Rebecca Hamilton on the wisdom and technique of fatherhood: I had been caught red-handed, abusing my horse. I had no idea what Daddy was going to do, but I expected something massive. What he did instead was much more effective. “Becky Ann, you know better […]
Off to seek my fortune at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague. Then my extended summer holiday for three days or so in Cornwall. So, one for the road from the Commentator on why Pussy Riot and Nelson Mandela are by some chance not at all related.
Back from a week working in Vienna. Here is my piece for Telegraph Blogs on the London 2012 Olympics: … maybe I am following the wrong people but there was also a torrent of British abuse aimed at the Closing Ceremony on numerous counts. The songs were wrong: howls of […]
*Sighs* This is what I grew up with. And how cool and exciting it seemed:
Check out this new car mirror designed by a very smart mathematician in the USA to help drivers see what is happening in the ‘blind spot’: Hicks’s driver’s side mirror has a field of view of about 45 degrees, compared to 15 to 17 degrees of view in a flat […]
Try this one: ER = R x SDa x SDc x corr (a,c) This says that the excess expected return over cash of any asset should equal the product of just four things: – A measure of risk aversion, R. The more we hate risk – other things equal – […]
… and watch the first few minutes of this. The future. Incoming.
Try this: Via Samizdata. Read the comments too: My favourite question to people who say that this stuff is complicated is to ask them at what point the rules of money change. Money is like physics – the rules that apply to an atom also apply to planet. In the […]
Come on, smart readers with all those fancy Maths skills. What’s wrong with this? Update The awesome power of Twitter: the first right answer answer is provided within little more than seconds by Graeme Pietersz @gpietersz who has one his sites here (but you still have to work it out – […]
