Economist removed from plane for algebra, flight delayed 1.5 hours

Doesn't University of Pennsylvania economist Guido Menzio know that you should never do Al Gebra on a plane?

From FB:

Unbelievable…

Flight from Philly to Syracuse goes out on the tarmac, ready to take off. The passenger sitting next to me calls the stewardess, passes her a note. The stewardess comes back asks her if she is comfortable taking off, or she is too sick. We wait more. We go back to the gate. The passenger exits. We wait more. The pilot comes to me and asks me out of the plane. There I am met by some FBI looking man-in-black. They ask me about my neighbor. I tell them I noticed nothing strange. They tell me she thought I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper. I laugh. I bring them back to the plane. I showed them my math.

It's a bit funny. It's a bit worrisome. The lady just looked at me, looked at my writing of mysterious formulae, and concluded I was up to no good. Because of that an entire flight was delayed by 1.5 hours.

Trump's America is already here. It's not yet in power though. Personally, I will fight back.

Here's the WaPo story about it.

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(Thanks, Ryan!)

Conservative economics: what's happened to the UK economy after a year of Tory rule

It's been a year since David Cameron's Tories took control of the UK Parliament with a majority that gave their free rein to govern UK, plc to their taste.
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Economist removed from plana for Algebra, flight delayed 1.5 hours

Doesn't University of Pennsylvania economist Guido Menzio know that you should never do Al Gebra on a plane?

From FB:

Unbelievable…

Flight from Philly to Syracuse goes out on the tarmac, ready to take off. The passenger sitting next to me calls the stewardess, passes her a note. The stewardess comes back asks her if she is comfortable taking off, or she is too sick. We wait more. We go back to the gate. The passenger exits. We wait more. The pilot comes to me and asks me out of the plane. There I am met by some FBI looking man-in-black. They ask me about my neighbor. I tell them I noticed nothing strange. They tell me she thought I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper. I laugh. I bring them back to the plane. I showed them my math.

It's a bit funny. It's a bit worrisome. The lady just looked at me, looked at my writing of mysterious formulae, and concluded I was up to no good. Because of that an entire flight was delayed by 1.5 hours.

Trump's America is already here. It's not yet in power though. Personally, I will fight back.

Here's the WaPo story about it.

[via]

(Thanks, Ryan!)

Sadiq Khan elected London mayor, becomes first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital

The practicing Muslim son of Pakistani immigrants has been elected mayor of London. Labour Party politician Sadiq Khan's win today is a major political milestone in the Western world.

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University of Oxford acquires rare map of Middle-earth annotated by Tolkien

The Bodleian Libraries at Oxford acquired a recently-discovered map of Middle-earth annotated by JRR Tolkien, "which reveals his remarkable vision of the creatures, topography and heraldry of his imagined world where The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place. The annotated map went unseen for decades until October 2015 when Blackwell's Rare Books in Oxford put the map on display and offered it for sale."

(Thanks, Gary Price!)