The Most Amazing Man in the World

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Alexis Lemaire, mathlete.

Jack and Diane Movie Greater Than Eponymous Song

Let us begin with some basic information: John Mellancamp is kind’ve a hack, and Ellen Page is, I think, It. Or she’s got It. Or she’s next. Or she’s now. Hot? Everybody like Ellen Page right now, because this trailer for her film, Juno, is fabulous, and the movie has [...]

Progressive New Jersey

New Jersey has a lousy reputation in the US.  Especially in the Philadelphia and New York metropolitan areas, Jersey is often derided as a second-class state, filled with the northeast corridor’s version of hillbillies and hicks.  A state filled with urban pollution, but without the vaunted urban cosmopolitanism.  A state with the backwoods ideals, personalities, [...]

Money! Get Your Money Here!

From the Associated Press, via AOL:
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced a novel approach to injecting money into the banking system as it struggles to combat a severe credit crunch that threatens to drag the country into a recession.
The Fed said it would conduct two auctions next week where banks can bid for up to [...]

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Sorry there haven’t been any new posts lately.  The Curious Mechanism has moved into a new house, and we’re still waiting for the Internets to get hooked up.  Hopefully, a spectacular number of posts will start appearing again within a few days.