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CEI Weekly
May 28, 2010
>>CEI Sues NASA to Uncover Key Global Warming Docs
CEI is suing NASA in federal court! We have asked the court to…
Sit back for a moment and read the title of this blog post again. Let it sink in.
A new video just released by Econstories.tv, a project of The Mercatus Center, explores the basis of both Hayek and Keynes economic theories in classic west coast rap style. Co-written by Russ Roberts, also host of the EconTalk podcast, this video is attempting something difficult: Finding ways to expose a new audience to the philosophy of free markets.
The Yahoo-Google ad deal looks like it’s dead. The deal announced in June, would have allowed Google ads to appear on Yahoo search results. Yahoo estimated an $800 million profit during the frist year of the Google ad partnership and would have allowed Yahoo to continue its transion from search to content provider, making it a much more competitive company.
What has likely killed the deal? As stated in a Reuters article:
The two Internet companies have so far failed to reach an…
A group of researchers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium have built a supercomputer using consumer grade PC video gaming parts that is as fast as 350 modern CPU cores for less than 4,000 Euros. The research group, ASTRA, built the computer named FASTRA by installing four powerful nVidia graphics cards in one computer to assist in tomography computation, a technique used to generate three-dimensional images of the internal organs of patients by compiling x-ray images.
None of this would be possible…