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Creating artificial rogue waves in a laboratory has always been a challenge. But in 2009, scientists from Harvard University and Tulane University examined patterns of microwaves, rather than water waves, to get a better sense of how rogues might arise. They created a metal platform in a lab measuring 26 cm by 36 cm (about 10 in. by 14 in.) and randomly placed 60 small brass cones on the platform to mimic the effect of unexpected ocean eddies in the current. When they beamed microwaves at the platform, the scientists found that "hot spots" - the microwave equivalent of rogue waves...
...Jenkins offered one potential solution to the problem. “People need to be taught to recognize an image or text for what it is, rather than consume it passively and not understand what it is trying to accomplish,” he said...
What may seem like a rather isolated problem is really much more. Ever since the EU, with Germany at the helm, ushered in the Euro in 1999 (some say hastily), the fiscal collapse of any one eurozone country has had the potential to erase confidence in the common currency that underpins the economic structure of them all. A catastrophic loss of faith in the Euro, a currency second only to the United States Dollar in importance, would have grievous ramifications worldwide...
...such, the question to ask is not whether Greece ought to receive economic support, but rather from where it should be coming. Interpreting EU treaties in such a way that allows rich member-countries to bail out poorer ones is a step toward integrated eurozone fiscal policy as it necessitates the coercion of the poorer countries’ fiscal policymakers. Although austere German inflation-hawks might disagree, any interventionist French politician-turned-economist would gladly proclaim that fiscal policy is inherently, and rightly, subject to political forces. Indeed, in that country, unlike in Germany and the U.S., elected politicians dictate...
European voters have not authorized the EU to become an integrated political union that can determine a common fiscal policy for eurozone members. As such, it should not be in the power of European leaders to extract from EU treaties the ability to do so; rather, they should allow the IMF to lead the charge as it is an institution designed to do just that. Difficult as it may be, the EU must ensure that whatever steps it takes toward stronger economic union are not yet dependent on strengthening its political...