ft.com - 4/11/2009
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Marilyn vos Savant with husband Robert Jarvik outside New York’s Metropolitan Club
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed —
Are those who sweat the big stuff in meltdown? (FT) ‘Lipstick index’ smeared by recession (FT) Is a high IQ a burden as much as a blessing? (FT) Latest railroad traffic data (AAR) It's time to put in oil floor price of $100 (Bill Gross) The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love (NBER) The Downing Street hand-shake (BBC) At least 24 million barrels of oil stored at sea (Calgary Herald) Covent Garden ballet ...
What does a Savant do for a living?
The Emirates Economist —
Financial Times: Savant – the surname is real, it was her mother’s maiden name – has had a unique claim to fame since the mid-1980s. It was then, almost 30 years after she took a test as a schoolgirl in downtown St Louis, Missouri, that her IQ came to light. In 1985, Guinness World Records accepted that she had answered every question correctly on an adult Stanford-Binet IQ test at the age of just 10, a result that gave her a corresponding mental age of 22 years and 11 months, and an unearthly IQ of 228. The resulting publicity changed Savant’s life. ...
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Marginal Revolution —
1. The slide toward protectionism in the Great Depression, by Irwin and Eichengreen. 2. BookGlutton.com: write in a collective virtual margin for your books. 3. More on Marilyn vos Savant. 4. Newsweek Q&A about Create Your Own Economy. 5. Cultural snobbery and the Kindle. 6. Time magazine on homosexuality, circa 1966.
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