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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VZv–sm9XXU

From the page: “In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways.

Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They’re systematic and predictable – making us predictably irrational.”

Watching Fulham/Newcastle at Craven Cottage – National Soccer | Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/x-642-Soccer-Examiner~y2008m11d9-Watching-FulhamNewcastle-at-Craven-Cottage

An American journalist falls in love with the cottage.

“Granted, the cold rain sweeping through the stadium kept me on my toes, but it’s impossible not to feel comfortable when you visit this park. I was in the Hammersmith End in the third row and kept finding myself with a big grin on my space as I checked out my surroundings. Taking in a match in such a cool stadium under the lights with a packed house is quite an experience.”

BBC SPORT | Boxing | Classy Calzaghe demolishes Jones

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7714516.stm



46 wins and no losses.
Joe Calzaghe – The best British fighter. Ever.

Joe Calzaghe put on one of his finest displays to dismantle Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden in New York in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Calzaghe was floored in the first round by a Jones right hand but thereafter assumed full control of the fight