- Children in Armenia are now required to learn chess at school.
- For New York taxi drivers, economics is always on the mind.
- Cost benefit analysis of actions from the movie Star Wars.
- Royal wedding to add £1 billion to UK economy.
- 120 years later, an uncensored version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is published.
- Professor Charles De Brabant on why luxury companies should be run by peasants.
- Do urban environments require bigger brains?
- We might have the biggest gold reserve, but not per person.
- Recession cut Greenhouse emissions by 5.6 percent in 2009.
- USDA gives West Virginia University $4.7 million to fight obesity.
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I don’t know if I think it’s such a great idea to mandate that children learn chess, but I’ll be interested to see the studies that are published as a result.
A billion pounds to their economy, wow… I wonder what would happen if/when we elect a President who is without spouse (ala “The American President”), and then s/he proceeds to get married. What kind of a boon to the economy would that do for the US?
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Jeremiah, it would probably depend on how the country viewed that president!
Although as Briton, I am inclined to agree that the boost to morale was pretty big, even if you don’t like the monarchy it was still a good excuse to party. And hopefully that will have a good effect on the economy. (although there were rumors when they announced their engagement that they did so just to boost morale)
I doubt the same would be said if a political figure/ prime minister got married as the interest in them isn’t on the same level, but I can’t speak for interets in politicians in the USA.
I believe learning the Chinese Go will far more enhance strategic thinking, if that is what they are after.