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...deflation, because he's convinced that serious deflation makes an economic downturn much worse by making it much harder for debtors to pay back loans. That's probably the right stance right now. When banks and consumers are both trying to cut back on their debts on a mass scale, deflation really is the big threat...
...robotic insect. “We want to try to answer some fundamental questions that exist in both biology and engineering pertaining to organisms and devices that flap their wings for propulsion,” Wood said. Wood is approaching this question by manufacturing the robotic fly at the scale of an actual fly. His lab uses parts, including transmission systems and air foils, which have direct biological analogies that are “not accidental”. His lab recently constructed all the individual components of the fly which performed similarly to those of an actual insect. Wood...
...because the Internet search company plans to digitize books that are still in copyright. The Association of American Publishers, the trade group that brought the lawsuit and that represents more than 300 publishing houses, has alleged that Google’s initiative amounted to copyright infringement on a massive scale...
...scale of the losses the short-sellers would have to absorb grew rapidly as they scrambled to acquire the shares necessary to cover their positions and cut their losses. The stock price soared as it became clear that there simply wasn't enough VW stock in the market to meet demand - short-selling investors had borrowed around 13% of VW's stock, but only 6% was trading freely, the remainder being held by Porsche and the state government of Lower Saxony...
...must go through a procedure that includes paying royalties for Harvard items sold, submitting sample products, and joining the Fair Labor Association. And selling licenses isn’t all the trademark office does. Their duties also include policing the illegal use of the Harvard trademark on an international scale. “This is what I find most exciting,” says Rick Calixto, director of Harvard’s Licensing Program. “Alumni and students call us to notify us of unauthorized use of our trademark at, say, colleges in Ecuador and on products...