Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback to long-running road-safety efforts. At the same time, arrests for drivi...
1. Jake Seliger update. 2. Yuen Yuen Ang on adaptive political economy. 3. A resurgence of folk deities in Taiwan? (NYT) 4. Benjamin Yeoh podcast with Henry Oliver on late bloomers. And a Tweet...
Many countries are facing and resisting strong migratory pressure, fueling irregular migration. In response to mounting deaths in the Central Mediterranean, European nations intensified rescue op...
From Khalil Menaf Hegarty, note that an Australian dollar is worth about 65 cents. I also won’t double indent: “There are a series of economy-wide, labour-related problems in Australia that...
1. Did investing $100 million reduce homelessness? 2. Nate Silver on what politics is about for most people. 3. Who wrote the music for “In My Life”? 4. David Wallace-Wells (NYT) on the smart...
From the London Times (gated), he starts from my earlier MR discussion of the topic: Yet, from a policy perspective, identifying what changed after 2008 is less interesting than what could have b...
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Coleman and Tyler explore the implications of colorblindness, including whether jazz would’ve been created in a ...
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is Wikipedia: Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer. For over twenty years he has been an editor of the journal Nature, for whi...
1. Roots of Progress blog building fellowship. 2. MIE: buy a decommissioned USG supercomputer. 3. Paul Auster, RIP, here is a recent tweet of mine on Auster and writing. 4. A reconstruction of an...
Benjamin Nathans, To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement. The definitive book on its topic, consisting largely of profiles of dissidents. The ti...
The odds are against this, and most market prices are well-behaved, noting that the yen was hitting 160 to the dollar. More importantly, Japanese stocks have bounced back over the last two year...
1. Greenpeace vs. Golden Rice. And Michael Magoon essays on Progress Studies. 2. Brutalist churches. 3. Good piece on Derek Parfit. 4. The case for permitting reform is stronger than you think....
In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential papers written in the 2000s to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives�...
SB 1047 was written, near as I can tell, to satisfy the concerns of a small group of people who believe widespread diffusion of AI constitutes an existential risk to humanity. It contains referen...
UK is a finance economy and EU/world ex-US has had terrible stock market performance since then. Germany survived (not thrived) on manufacturing (also better positioned vis-a-vis Eastern Europe),...