Are higher wedding expenses associated with longer-lasting marriages? And is the phrase “A diamond is forever” just a fairytale? Professors Andrew M. Francis and Hugo M. Mialon of the Economics Department at Emory University, US, express their opinions in their forthcoming paper for Economic Inquiry, entitled: ‘‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales: The […]
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Diamonds from tequila and peanut butter…
First cam diamonds from peanut butter, in Scotland, in 2007. Then came diamonds from tequila, in Mexico, in 2008. Now, in 2014, come diamonds from peanut butter, in Germany. (Thanks to Roger Highfield for alerting us to the German peanut butter.) BONUS (not necessarily related): The effect of peanut butter on the rotation of the earth UPDATE […]
Diamonds versus bug excrement
Bob Park writes, on Sept 3, 2010, in his weekly What’s New newsletter: Earth went through a relatively brief cold spell about 13,000 years ago called the Younger Dryas climate episode. It coincided with the disappearance of the North American Clovis culture, and killed the mammoths and other Ice Age mega fauna. The accepted explanation […]