Setting the financial crisis to music – from the FT’s Frederick Studeman and Julian Anderson, composer in residence at the London Philharmonic Orchestra. One big challenge Anderson faced was how to capture September, 2008: One obvious way to symbolise the moment of crash is a dull, almighty thud; another, a […]
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It’s become a yearly tradition for the folks at PNC to figure out how much it would cost to buy each of the gifts in the carol “The 12 Days of Christmas.” Here are this year’s results – complete with an interactive pop-up book accompanied by PNC’s Jim Dunigan’s lovely Mid-Atlantic accent. […]
WePay pored over some academic papers, Consumer Reports, and trade group publications to produce a helpful infographic on the behavioral economics of holiday gift giving. It’s interesting that an unused AMC Theaters gift card has a higher secondary market value (just 20% down) than one from 1-800 Flowers (30% off) – […]
Graphic artist Cameron Zotter picked up discarded receipts over a 48 hour period and mapped out how far they had traveled from the point of purchase. See the huge version on Flickr or click below:
A documentary film on the history of the venture capital business – Something Ventured – is in post-production. You can view a clip here.
From artist Blake Fall-Conroy: The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money.
Watch reruns… and learn! Three academics created a site that contains over 100 Seinfeld clips that illustrate principles of the dismal science. As they see it: It is the simplicity of Seinfeld that makes it so appropriate for use in economics courses. Using these clips… makes economic concepts come alive, […]
Groupon shmoupon. Wired’s latest issue features a piece on ninja online bargain shoppers who show just how far traditional coupon snipping has come. There’s a woman who drives away from a food shopping trip with $80 worth of groceries and and a payment from the store – ““I actually made […]
Tim Price is right: “The real takeaway here is that “the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas is a thing that exists.” Not only that, but they have a website, and some photos to share: