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"Another study estimates that Europe invests €9.5bn in weather data and gets approximately €68bn back in economic value - in everything from more efficient farming and construction decisions, to better holiday planning - a 7-fold multiplier. The United States, by contrast invests twice as much - €19bn - but gets back a return of €750bn, a 39-fold multiplier."

New Blog

The focus of this blog will be links to articles and other items that I found interesting. I plan on posting links with little, if any, commentary. See the curiouscat.com blog for more commentary on management improvement, investing, economics, internet finds and more.

Here are some links to interesting articles and links to get things started.

• Unable to travel because he refuses to present a government-approved ID
  
• Article on Google History by John Heilemann
• Book a Minute Classics - example, Hamlet

  Whine whine whine...To be or not to be...I'm dead.

• India special: Vaccines for pennies - "A molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he was proposing to make hepatitis B vaccine in India, his native land, for a mere dollar a shot. At the time UK drug firm SmithKline Beecham was selling the product in the west for 20 times that amount...Their company, called Bharat Biotech, now sells the vaccine in developing countries for 28 cents a shot...

John Hunter