News & Musings
News & Musings
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All the Winners in the MICHELIN Guide Nordic Countries 2026!
Find out what the MICHELIN Guide Inspectors love about the new selection and which restaurant is awarded Three MICHELIN Stars
See here: https://guide.michelin.com/dk/en/article/michelin-guide-ceremony/michelin-guide-nordic-denmark-finland-iceland-norway-sweden-2026-new-stars-bib-gourmands-special-awards
Esta tarde, el Museo Ralli devino ensayo coreográfico: cuatro danzas contemporáneas, cuatro salas, cuatro modos de pensar el cuerpo. Al cierre, “Pajarillo” (Compañía de Danza Vaivenes, música de Elizabeth Morris), entre las obras del gran Roberto Matta, la libertad cobró vuelo.💃
Excited to FINALLY release toughest+most rewarding paper I've worked on...
….we attack a 150 year old Walras question that's gone unanswered, not for lack of trying (Hicks, Samuelson, Arrow; our chances?😱)...
Q: Is the market equilibrium stable or unstable?¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Lo and behold: a typically atypical Chilean wine night (at least at mine). The Pacific opens, Itata interrupts, Lo Abarca broods, and an Argentine enemy crashes the table to prove the Andes have two good sides.
La raja, po: Chile puso la mesa y el Gran Enemigo vino en son de paz.
Idk… if “appreciating the difference between otoro and chutoro takes an understanding of a tuna’s anatomy that’s beyond [his] comprehension” saw print, the only thing expertly sliced here is the sushi reviewer’s authority. Straight to fish fingers, I say!
My night at London’s most expensive sushi restaurant
‘Each course at Sushi Kanesaka is delivered for evaluation, where the desired response is ‘flawless’ rather than ‘tasty’’
www.ft.com
A remarkable paper appeared on arXiv tonight by Thomas Bloom, Will Sawin, Carl Schildkraut and Dmitrii Zhelezov. In this paper, they prove that there exists c>0 and arbitrarily large finite sets A of real numbers such that max(|A+A|,|AA|)≤|A|^{2-c}. This disproves the well-known
I hadn't been following the Gino vs Harvard drama once it became obvious Gino was guilty, but this from Harvard's latest filing is nuts. They imaged the laptop at the start of the investigation, so they caught her when she made a fake, backdated file with "data" from her research
Joel Mokyr’s Collège de France lectures: useful knowledge is non-rival, non-excludable, compounding; the market for ideas clears at 0, with increasing returns per minute watched; consumer surplus is civilization!
𝐿𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑒́𝑒 comes online: https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/conferencier-invite/the-longue-duree-economic-history-and-the-rise-of-prosperity-in-the-modern-age
