These are my links for September 17th 2008 through September 18th 2008:
- The Culture of Prosperity - Gregory Clark’s book - "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World" - shows how important attitudes are to economic growth, writes Wolfgang Kasper
This book asks big questions: Why are some societies rich and others poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in the seventeenth century, in England? Why do some societies—in Africa, for example—find sustained growth so elusive?
- Debate: ‘Behavioural economics: is it such a big deal?’ by Pete Lunn | Prospect Magazine September 2008 issue 150 - Behavioural economics is becoming increasingly fashionable. Does it represent a revolution in economic thinking? Or does it merely provide a few handy insights into the more irrational behaviours of individuals
- ‘Big bang machine’ is back on collision course after its glitches are fixed - Times Online - The Large Hadron Collider is ready to start smashing its first particles together early next week, after glitches with the £3.6 billion “big bang machine” were fixed by engineers.
Although scientists had hoped that the successful creation of the particle accelerator’s first beams last Wednesday would clear the way for trial collisions this week, the timetable has had to be delayed because of power failures that affected its cooling system.
- Prodrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - In medicine, a prodrome is an early non-specific symptom (or set of symptoms) indicating the start of a disease before specific symptoms occur. For example fever, malaise, headache and anorexia (lack of desire to eat) are part of the prodrome for mumps or a variety of infective disorders. A prodrome can be the precursor to the onset of a chronic neurological disorder such as migraine or epilepsy, where prodrome symptoms include scotoma, disorientation, aphasia, or photosensitivity.
It also refers to the initial in vivo round of viral replication.
Prodromal labour, mistakenly called "false labour," is the early signs before labour starts.
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