The beautiful neckless of…

The Master's thesis paper from Natalia Nikola on the effect of pipe repairs on housing prices show that pipe repairs cost less outside the Metropolitan area, but fails to see why. 

Pipe repair costs turn out to vary greatly between projects and scope:

The data includes apartment transactions from Helsinki and Espoo between Jan 2000 – Jun 2010. Four different data sources are combined for the analysis. Transaction data and data on characteristics of individual apartments (2000-2010) were obtained from Hintaseurantapalvelu, a database used by most Finnish real estate agents. Specific data on pipe repairs including scope and costs was…

The Finnish masterminds behind the game have opened up a little plane-shaped Angry Birds kiosk-shop in the middle of Helsinki International Airport.