Interesting Links for 2-11-2011
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andrewducker- A new phylogeny of the mammals. Nice diagram.
- Half of Britain now owns a smartphone.
- From April people in the UK will be able to opt-out from junk mail through a single website.
- Revolutions and the Internet.
- The price of Greek democracy
- India plans safer nuclear plant powered by thorium
- Google tells you why it's serving you specific ads.
- The dangers of bedtime reading
- After UNESCO Palestine vote, could US defund nuclear watchdog IAEA, too?
- Jason Segel, Unlikely Hero Behind the New Muppet Movie (I've loved him for years)
- Hormone in birth control shot linked to memory loss
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Date: 2011-11-02 02:04 pm (UTC)Great to the point of impossibility.
It’s the old adage. If you owe a bank £100k you have a problem. If you owe a bank £100m they have a problem. If you owe a bank £100bn then everybody has a problem. I think the most likely outcome is for a significant Greek default followed by Greece leaving the eurozone and possibly taking a few of the flakier economies with it so they can devalue away to their heart’s content.
I’ve thought for a long long time that trying to join up a bunch of southern european sunshine economies, eastern european former communist with the more muscular economies of western europe was a big ask. I’d hoped that we’d have a bit longer for all these economies to integrate and for productivity to even out a little and competitive advangates to be found but alas, we’ve been caught mid-reconfiguration.
The Italians I think have struggled to intergrate their North and South (I always smile when I picture Victor Immanuel and Cavour so very graciously accepting from Garibaldi control of Naples and Sicily.