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Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics 425

zogger writes in his journal, "The guy who put together the concept of geographical location combined with cheap transportation leading to 'like trades with like' and the rise of superindustrial trading blocs has won the Nobel economics science prize. He's a bigtime critic of a lot of this administration's policies, and is unabashedly an FDR-economy styled fella. Here is his blog at the NYTimes." Reader yoyoq adds that Krugman's career choice was inspired by reading Asimov's Foundation series at a young age.

Comment Re:Layout patent? (Score 1) 291

As far as i can remember, the QWERTY layout of keyboards is not to improve productivity but is designed to make interference/collisions less likely between the die-arms of mechanical typewriters. Other keyboard layouts exist that are designed for typing efficiency but never really caught on. Of course, this doesn't diminish your point. Layout is not necessarily trivial.

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