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To Coin a Craze
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The hashtag #mintthecoin is currently white-hot in the Twitterverse. In case you’re not following the discussion, it has to do with the idea that one option President Obama has, should House Republicans be determined to deny the necessary rise...
Beware the MOOC Erdrutsch!
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You have heard of the MOOC, right? That stands for “Massive Open On-line Course,” truly the great Internet innovation of 2012. No less than on-line guru Clay Shirky has suggested that MOOCs – offered through sites such as Coursera,...
Bowie is Back!
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Yes, that’s the news today from France’s Le Figaro, which announces a new Bowie album, to be titled Where Are We Now?: David Bowie revient avec un nouvel album pour mars http://t.co/wM9MtVtQ about 7 hours ago via twitterfeedReplyRetweetFa...
Gérard Among The Crazies
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You might have heard about the recent kerfluffle involving the Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated (for Cyrano de Bergerac) French actor Gérard Depardieu. French President François Hollande recently carried out his pledge to increase the top marg...
Slovaks On the Move
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Geography buffs find particularly interesting places in the world where major urban centers come close together but under different jurisdictions: the greater New York City metropolis, say, or the Liège-Maastricht-Aachen area in NW Europe. But there...
Old Man Sun: Just Foolin’!
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See the face there, the wink? This is a NASA photograph, but it was recently brought forward to top an article in the Dutch Volkskrant*. And when was this particular sun-shot taken? Yes: on 22 December, just after the day when many claimed the Mayans...
Dispatches from the Finanzklippe
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Uh-oh. It seems a certain American English expression is spreading overseas, and not one we might prefer: US-Haushaltsstreit: “Go f… yourself!” – Washingtons Nerven liegen blank http://t.co/XlE06lIu January 3, 2013 4:48 am via...
Does Turkey Need Air Defence Help?
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Here, let me ask you this (answers and/or commentary as usual welcome at the €S e-mail address): Does Turkey currently face a military threat across the Syrian border? At least through the air? Those are the important questions now before the Germa...
Blue-Sky Tokenism for Poland
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Here’s a story that has come under the radar (no pun intended) of most of the international press, but at least we have it here in Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza: W Łasku Amerykanie nie wylądowalihttp://t.co/x9gSZ4dy November 10, 2012...
What Is Romney’s Next Act?
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Maybe it’s a question you haven’t devoted much thought about. But the journalists at the Dutch paper De Volkskrant are on it: Wat gaat #Romney nu doen? – http://t.co/Hk72QCkD about 11 hours ago via bitlyReplyRetweetFavorite @volkskr...
Romney’s Money Goes Dutch
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You can now add the Netherlands to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland in the Mitt Romney tax-avoidance Hall of Fame: #Romney ontwijkt belasting door sluipweg via Nederland http://t.co/S1w4WKy2 about 22 hours ago via bitlyReplyRetweetFavorite @volkskr...
In a Bit of a Jam
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Are you in or headed towards the Czech Republic, but still looking forward to your marmalade at breakfast time? Sorry, that’s probably not possible: iDnes: Marmeláda se nevrátí, Unie odsoudila Česko k rosolu a džemu: Ma...
Secrets of German Success
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If you examine the phenomenon closely, there’s a curious aspect to the current European economic crisis, whose most outstanding (but not sole) manifestation is the sovereign debt crisis. I mean looking beyond the threat to the common European c...
A Toast to the Debates!
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So the presidential debates are finally over! The third and last one – it was supposed to be about foreign policy – just happened, and now the candidates are back on the campaign trail for the home stretch. As usual, there has been a floo...
Debate As Fast Food
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So tonight we have coming up the second debate between the two American presidential candidates. There is already great anticipation, since the first one reminded us all that these can indeed materially effect presidential races, as seen in the recov...
Can Lufthansa Go Low-Cost?
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For well over a decade now, in the European air travel market the “legacy” airlines that everyone was used to from the past have been struggling to compete with low-cost carriers who have been able to offer substantially lower prices in r...
From France to Romney: Gotcha!
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Word on the ‘Nets is that that infamous “47%” video might well have been the coup de grâce that will ultimately ensure that Mitt Romney loses the 2012 presidential race. However, it never rains, but it pours: now another embarrassi...
Samsung Laughs Last & Best?
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The tech world lately has been buzzing about the verdict in the patent-infringement case that Apple brought against Samsung, for allegedly copying for its Android-based smartphones many features for which Apple thought it held patent protection. And...
“Nightmare” Games?
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Here at €S we greeted the oncoming prospect of the London 2012 Olympic Games with an examination of whether it really makes sense economically for a city to host them, which came to the daring conclusion: “It depends.” Now they are over...
Church Disco in Amsterdam
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This post deviates a bit from the beaten track to which EuroSavant readers are accustomed in that it does not take as its jumping-off point any sort of news article. Also, it has to do with something in Amsterdam, my home-base but nevertheless somepl...
