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A couple of amusing articles by way of Marginal Revolution and the Freakonomics Blog. The first article from the Wall Street Journal details some of the quirky habits of famous economists. We learn for example that Milton Friedman routinely returned the telephone calls of reporters collect and that a dinner served by John Maynard Keynes [...]

It’s been a bit busy at work, so here’s a quick post on something that I found last week. It’s the world’s tallest LEGO tower and it was built in the Legoland Windsor theme park in the U.K. out of 500,000 LEGO pieces. It’s a pretty awesome sight, though after reading the comments section I [...]

Four articles this month, though I have to admit that they’re more about technology than general science. The first and potentially most exciting of these is the news of Intel’s demonstration of technology to transmit power wirelessly. Personally I’ve always wondered when we would get around to accomplishing this. After all, in science-fiction shows like [...]