Some 150 protesters gathered outside the Tehran home and office of the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist on Thursday, accusing her of sympathy for Israel, the Islamic state's enemy.
The economics of scientific collaboration: Michael Nielsen
At a deep level economics is about understanding how human beings behave when one or more resources are scarce. How are those resources allocated? Are there more efficient ways they might be allocated? What tradeoffs are incurred?
There is a fundamental scarce resource in science, one whose allocation largely determines how science progresses. That scarce resource is expert attention. Who pays attention to what problems? How long do they spend on those problems? What institutional structures determine the answers to those questions? In short, what determines the architecture of scientific attention?
The price of "too big to fail": Supervising the credit giants with progressive capital ratios: (vox.eu - Donato Masciandaro) ...The too big to fail rule therefore represents an authentic paradox – in the presence of risk of systemic crisis, the rule must be temporarily adopted to prevent the crisis from actually worsening, but if it is not credibly revoked, it pushes the system towards an unstable and inefficient oligopoly.
Independent programmers says it has "unlocked" the latest generation of Apple Inc.'s iPhones
By Yukari Iwatani Kane - WSJ. On Wednesday, a group called the iPhone Dev Team released a free piece of software called "yellowsn0w" that unlocks the iPhone 3G. The software lets users reprogram the phones so they can work on any wireless network based on the same technical standard. The iPhone Dev Team is the same group that unlocked the original iPhone model more than a year earlier. The team didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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