Miscellaneous items

The dollar is at a record low relative to the euro and a 25-year low against the British pound.

The European Research Council has been given a budget of 7.5 billion euro a year to 2013

Great new interactive web page for restaurants in Finland: http://eat.fi

Antipode, a radical journal of geography posted this article about being a non-tenure-track faculty member in the US: "Skilled, Cheap, and Desperate" by Mark Purcell

Eight years after defeating curbside recycling, Norman, Oklahoma, 71% of residents vote to support curbside recycling.