Recent content by ninar

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    Can businesses thrive in a fixed-money economy?

    The amount of money is not necessarily fixed; also, if real GDP increases its not just a redistribution of the resources within the economy, but actually more output=income=expenditure
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    The Paradox of Choice: Is More Choice Better?

    Here are some videos from the TED talks about choice, decisions, rationality and happiness: Dan Gilbert, social psychologist - "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-4flnuxNV4"s" & "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTO_dZUvbJA"" Dan Ariely, behavioral economist -...
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    Undergrad What Are the Key Mathematical Models in Economics?

    Here are some of the basic ones with pretty graphics Microeconomics: demand/supply profit maximization indifference curves & budget constraint utility function Edgeworth's box Macroeconomics: the classic macroeconomic model Keynes: the Keynesian cross, IS-LM, Mundell-Fleming model...
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    Speculative Attack: Understanding Currency Attacks & Profits

    Ah, ok, sorry. :rolleyes: I meant to refer to the currency reserves. Heheee. In the case of sterilisation operations, the domestic authorities would actually trade the bonds in the same direction of the trading of the currency reserves.
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    New LHC monitoring portal LIVE DATA

    wow... i had never before acknowledged this fierce side of physicists. :approve: i like it.
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    Speculative Attack: Understanding Currency Attacks & Profits

    Yes. Consider an exogenous, asymmetric shock that causes a trade deficit. The agent (speculator) will try to buy out the bank's foreign reserves. A currency crisis occurs when the government can't bring up their currency (they can't prevent the devaluation/depreciation) by means of increasing...
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    Schools Masters degree and PhD restrictions for a specific college degree.

    Hi! Thanks for the reply. So, in theory, all (or most?) masters may accessible with any college degree, and under the restrictions that the department imposes? For example, someone in physics>psychology... or finance>biology, etc?
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    Schools Masters degree and PhD restrictions for a specific college degree.

    Hello! How do I know which degrees grant me elegible to study a masters degree on a different study branch? For example, neuroscience, is it restricted to certain degrees? Or, is it possible to attend a special program to certify the credits needed for a particular specialization degree?
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    Science poetry-or verse that is just informative about nature

    Its amazing how well it will place the concept of existence and everness within time and space. Its incredible how some poems will stay for us forever, and we will actually recite from heart. This poem made me remember a verse from "Poem XX" of Neruda: "es tan corto el amor... y es tan...
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    Science poetry-or verse that is just informative about nature

    By the way, you have probably seen this already, I think this kinda counts as science poetry... 'A Glorious Dawn' Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking
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    Science poetry-or verse that is just informative about nature

    Marrows sounds good to me too... I translated it myself, but I was trying to reproduce a very good sounding translation I read in a book written in english, when I was a kid. Marcus, you did a very good interpretation, you study them as a profession?
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    Science poetry-or verse that is just informative about nature

    Yes! Exactly! To my taste, that's a better translation. The words used in spanish are so carefully placed: lyrically, for its syllabus, the cadence, and most important, to powerfully accentuate certain elements. The translated first part: Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra que me...
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    Physicist, mathematician and engineer jokes.

    here, we use that joke for argentinans! as well as "dad, when i grow upsh i wanná be just like yoú! so that i can háve a son like mé!"
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    Science poetry-or verse that is just informative about nature

    Hi, I love poetry... all these poems are great! At the time I gained my interest in physics, I attended a particular lecture... and the lecturer brought up the last verses of a beautiful sonet by Francisco de Quevedo, titled "Amor Constante Más Allá De La Muerte" ("Love Constant Beyond Death")...