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Economics, Math and Statistics

For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics

August 6, 2009 Jim Garven Leave a comment

“For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics” is the title of a New York Times article that was published yesterday.  As Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist notes, “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians … and I’m not kidding.”’

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Hiroshima, 64 years ago

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Today marks 64 years since the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by the United States (the U.S. dropped a second atom bomb on Nagasaki, Japan just three days later). The Boston Globe has a remarkable photoessay about Hiroshima available on its “The Big Picture” website.

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