Gopher Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

By kohler | Oct 15, 2007

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Congratulations to Leonid Hurwicz for bringing home a Nobel Prize:

Hurwicz, 90, is the oldest Nobel winner ever, according to the academy. “I really didn’t expect it,” said the Moscow-born researcher, an emeritus economics professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
The three winners “laid the foundations of mechanism design theory,” which plays a central role [...]

Male Practice Players for Women’s Sports

By kohler | Jan 3, 2007

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Thanks to Governor Tim Pawlenty’s underfunding of transit in Minnesota in an attempt to maintain his “no new taxes, and . . . um . . . fees aren’t taxes” pledge, I was feathering my clutch across town this evening listening to Bumper to Bumper with Barrerio on KFAN where I heard about a Star [...]