Seth Godin RSS feed: Unanswered (random) questions

[David Sandusky]

My RSS Feed is a Thinker and Has Just Posted the Following:

Okay, if you have an answer, tell me (and a source, if you have it) and I'll post the answers inside this post as I get them:

1. How did Economics get to be its own academic department? Surely, before Marx, it was part of the philosophy department, right? There are lots of fields that are subfields of something else (SEO, for instance, is part of 'marketing' and probably will be forever). Being your own department (in a company or a university) is a big deal. So, how exactly did it happen?

2. What's the deal with brown rice? How do people become so attached to the social implications of food that they are willing to starve or suffer from malnutrition rather than take a step backward? The price of rice has soared, yet it seems like people are still demanding white rice, instead of the more nutritious (and almost certainly cheaper) brown rice. How high does the price have to go before people make a different choice?

3. Is there a web based service that permits the following: dozens or hundreds of people can participate in a live chat Q&A, probably with a moderator, along with a Skype-like audio function? Imagine how much cheaper and more effective large group conference calls could be. Skype limits conference calls to about 15, and it's flaky at that size. This seems like an easy problem to solve extraordinarily well and even charge for...





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