Archive for June 8th, 2007
The Moron Strikes Back
In case you missed it:
Punch a Swede and whack a referee 
Hat tip to Jessika Wide and Susanne Alldén.
Check Before You Panic
The downward trend in shareprices on the Scandinavian stock exchanges this week has had the foreseeable consequence: A lot of talk about a coming stock-market crisis and discussions about whether private investors should sell now and leave the market.
A look at the most general of my investment funds (it’s called Selecta Europa) tells me this:
Latest course 2007-06-07: 448,08
Latest buy 2007-05-28: 451,55
Start of the year 2006-12-27: 391,44
One year ago 2006-05-27: 371,89
Lowest rate 2003-02-27: 200,88 (yes, I felt p*#€”d at that point)
Rate when I started savings 2002-01-08: 337,92
I’m more concerned – for both general and personal reasons – for the never-ending upward spiral in Swedish housing prices. I fear that I will have to buy a house because I can’t afford a flat.
It’s a mad, mad world.
links for 2007-06-08
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Dynamics of Political Polarization
It’s a cool model of multidimensional issue attitudes with a nice story about how people can overestimate polarization in their social network because, when interacting with friends and acquaintances in settings where political attitudes are relevant, the
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The Quick and the Ed: Is this news?
I’m a little frightened that it is considered newsworthy when a student gets into college without the help of SAT coaches, essay-writing experts, and hyper-vigilant parents. Isn’t that how most students get into college?
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There are some signs that we are now beginning to study, or at least think about, the way students learn to think like their professions.
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Men jeg synes det er mindst lige så spændende med de andre tiltag, der satser på en bredere forskningsformidling via podcasts. Her tænker jeg især på de podcasts, hvor forskerne selv fortæller, men også dem, hvor et professionelt medie laver en po