Gould recorded this in September 1981, three weeks before he died at fifty. The 1981 Goldbergs are slow, breathing, inhabited — where the 1955 was argument, this is something closer to acceptance.

I watched the Odessey today and 3 hours feels so long, especially with the LOUD sound in the cinema. How do they even made it that loud? It’s the first Nolan movie that disappointed me. There are so many aspects of it being bad that I find it hard to logically critique the movie. Tempo is not good (bad script), emotion and content is not good, characters feels unmotivated, clueless and plain; set is not realistic, editing and engineering is not good, acting of some actors is really blant, etcetc. But overall the worst problem is, as Time-Bridge-3007 writes in their Reddit review The Odyssey is anti-art: ...

It’s kinda cool: The Economist’s new Big Max Index article The value of a currency should reflect its purchasing power, its command over goods and services. (Gustav Cassel) …we collect prices on just one: the Big Mac. It is available almost everywhere, and tastes much the same. Source: The Economists. https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/07/30/the-big-mac-index-at-40 Read it here: https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/07/30/the-big-mac-index-at-40.

A massive amount of Bach’s music and manuscript survived because his musical estate was divided and meticulously safeguarded by his musically trained sons—especially Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. his musical estate was divided among his sons. C.P.E. Bach, in particular, meticulously cataloged, preserved, and performed his father’s works, ensuring they survived long enough for Felix Mendelssohn to spark the “Bach Revival” in 1829. SepiaGlyphs, Quora https://www.quora.com/Were-there-any-notable-benefits-for-musicians-like-Bach-to-have-so-many-children-especially-in-terms-of-legacy-and-musical-influence Listen to his Violin Partita No. 3 and feel how modern soloist reinterpret and give the writing life: ...

Customers’ Multihoming Behavior in Ride-Hailing: Empirical Evidence from Uber and Lyft Chitla, Sandeep and Jagabathula, Srikanth and Mitrofanov, Dmitry and Cohen, Maxime C. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4591826 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4591826 The author collected data from 1.4M rides, 162k riders, NYC, 2018 through aelf-selected third-party panel. Uber consists of 65.7% of rides. Over a full year, 56.7% of riders used only Uber, 26.7% only Lyft, 16.6% used both at least once. The paper used subsample of the multihoming riders to estimate a structural choice model with Bayesian price/wait-time learning and a search-cost-driven consideration stage. The finding: only 16.6% of riders ever used both platforms, and even they checked both apps just 43.4% of the time — inertia and brand affinity, not price or wait time, dominate the choice. ...

Disclaimer: I don’t owe IP rights of any design images. My taste is personal and they’re for academic purposes only. My favourite design (though Beethoven should have been used for a 5 or 9 euro bill): This image is part of design proposal E, created by Myrsini Vardopoulou, and has been shortlisted by the ECB as a potential design for the third euro banknote series. (European Central Bank) ...

🍳 Source: State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) penalty decision (2026) No. 29, July 25, 2026. New Economists https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ECujo_6Qt_CbJanZvB6EUw SAMR found Ctrip Group abused its dominant position in China’s online hotel booking platform market (China-only relevant market). Market dominance evidence: Market share consistently above 50% (GMV basis: 53–59% over 2020–2025) Highly concentrated market: HHI ~4,100–4,575; CR3 ~94–95 Strong control over pricing, traffic allocation, room inventory, and hotel sales channels The fouls: ...

Proabably not? A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market? Budish, Lee and Shim (2024) JPE Reading Notes Context: exchanges today adopt the continuous limit order book trading mechanism, which generates latency arbitrage — rents from symmetrically disseminated public information — which fuels a socially wasteful speed race and taxes liquidity. A known fix exists (frequent batch auctions). Incumbent exchanges have not adopted it. Why not? ...

U of Chicago got another Fields Medal! The medalist videos are especially inspiring to watch: How deliberately the anime dolls face the camera is adorable. Inspiring mathematicians: “Mathematics is the queen of the sciences, and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics." —— Carl Friedrich Gauss “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty." —— Bertrand Russell “The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom." —— Georg Cantor ...

International students or frequent traveller would often take advantage of doing large purchases in the cheapest airport. But more importantly, exchange rates is an important financial lever. Recent interesting story from the Economist: A new Plaza for global currencies wouldn’t work https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/30/a-new-plaza-accord-for-global-currencies-wouldnt-work Just being curious, so a quick Google tells me: exchange rate is the price of currencies so technically it should also follow the supply and demand rule. Different mechanism operates in different time magnitude: ...