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Admittedly, it is hard to argue with such a positivist position, particularly when financiers and policymakers are willing and eager to rely on the appearance of mathematical certainty they provide. Certainty is attractive: Investors like companies with steady returns, just like individuals purchase insurance to hedge against the unknown; even marriage, if you will, is a quest for certainty...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Volcanic Ash Allowing | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...gulf in languages like English should not be quite so steep. The abandonment of fully-determined mathematical models that cannot deliver the certainty they promise and the consequent embrace of uncertainty may thus be, for economics as well as volcanic ash predictions, a good new principle, but perhaps an even better new beginning...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Volcanic Ash Allowing | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...Well, even if I am, that’s fine. Better to be a one hit wonder than have no hit at all. And the success of “Life of Pi” is a freak success in the sense that it’s a literary novel; it’s not a thriller, it’s not a genre novel, it’s a literary novel. And to have done that well, it can’t be reproduced...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Yann Martel | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...Part of the appeal might be the site’s simplicity: sign up online, choose a box that looks interesting, and then post a description of your own box of old clothes—you only pay the $13 shipping fee, and then you get the new box even if yours hasn’t been claimed...

Author: By Clemmie S. Faust, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thred it UP | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the trip had its positives. Yin’s experience was rattling, but even with other soldiers it was different: “There was a very nice and generous, even open-minded soldier who talked a lot with us and asked very interesting questions,” said Yin. “It was a very engaging experience, very interactive.”  And in the end, Yin gushed about how much she loved the experience of visiting North Korea...

Author: By Benjana Guraziu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Students Hop Over to Pyongyang | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

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