Three articles for the second month of 2010. Arguably the first one isn’t really a scientific article as it’s about whether or not the so-called connoisseurs of fine wine actually can objectively evaluate the quality of different varieties of wine. The second article talks about the link between physical motion and happiness in humans and the last one covers a extremely cool way of modeling a transit network for cities.

The first article appeared in SmartMoney and draws information from a couple of different sources to show that even wine experts can have a tough time differentiating one wine from another. It cites a recent court case in France in which twelve wine producers were convicted of fraud for selling millions of gallons of fake Pinot Noir to American distributors over several years. What makes this case so surprising is that the fraud was not uncovered by any customer complaints but because French government officials noticed a discrepancy between the amount of Pinot Noir being exported and the amount actually produced in the region.

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