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Mapping the salons of pre-revolutionary Paris
In our previous post, Alain Alcouffe and I mentioned that we would be using an 18th-century map of Paris, the Plan de Turgot (a reproduction of which is pictured below in its final assembled form), to map Adam Smith’s proximity … Continue reading
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Buyak Londra
We clattered up a steep street, past shop windows, banks, restaurants, saloons with their signs printed in four languages, scraped by jangling tramcars, were honked at by motorcars filled with British officers, were nearly run down by motors filled with … Continue reading
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Tagged europe, grand-hotel-de-londres, Istanbul, Travel, turkey, turkiye
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Müşir Ahmet Paşa Station (Sirkeci garı)
“In the station are a jam of porters, hotel runners, and Anglo-Levantine gentlemen in slightly soiled collars, badly soiled white trousers, garlicized breaths and hopeful manners who hope to be hired as interpreters…. I called a porter, gave him my … Continue reading
Creative marketing
Via reddit: “The flags of five countries are ‘hidden’ in the flag of Norway. Norwegian Airlines used this to good effect and came up with this clever print ad to promote their low airfares.” If the Super Bowl had print ads, … Continue reading
Why are airline boarding procedures so inefficient?
Here is one hypothesis: Because consumers want and value assigned seats. Overhead bin space is scarce as well, and airlines allocate that to their best customers through early boarding. In other words, there are competing business objectives. It turns out that … Continue reading
What does the ideal airline boarding pass look like?
According to Pete Smart, who gave this simple question some sustained thought during a nine-hour layover one day, it looks like this:
Every airline flight around the world during a single 24-hour day
Hat tips: Max Fisher; AirTraffic LIVE (Zurcher Hochschule school of Engineering).
prior probability 