These Cute, Fuzzy Bumblebees Are Precision-Engineered Pollinators Smithsonian Climate Opinion: Climate Doomism Disregards the Science Michael Mann, American Physical Society. From 2023, still germane. How droughts and worsening soil health can increase carbon emissions Monga Bay Beat the Heat: How...
Yves here. This paper shows that union membership is beneficial to workers, even in a time of generally weak labor bargaining power. The post finds that the benefits in terms of total weekly wages, and not just nominal wage rates,...
I am not referring to disagreements, I mean outright mistakes held by smart, intelligent people. Let me turn over the microphone to Ariel Pakes, who may someday win a Nobel Prize: Our calculations indicate that currently proposed U.S. policies to...
I am not endorsing these hypotheses, but they are interesting to ponder: Depression is neither disease nor disorder rather an adaptation that evolved to serve a purpose Depression is so much more prevalent than currently recognized that it is “species...
(1) They all have been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and (2) they oppose Mr. Trump’s economic agenda. Axios article. Here’s another letter, from nearly four years ago. This entry was posted...
I was taking a rare vacation trip (most travel is work related for me), when my wife and I decided to enter the haunted house at Tivoli for kicks (last visit, it’d been closed to renovate the wax museum to...
Now the project he created, Fantasy Chess, is leveling up from experiment to venture-backed startup. Led by CEO Mats André Kristiansen, the former cofounder of an online grocery startup, Oslo-based Fantasy Chess has raised $3 million in initial pre-seed funding...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Bird Song of the Day Eastern Meadowlark, Illinois Prairie Path–DuPage Airport, DuPage, Illinois, United States. * * * In Case You Might Miss… (1) The Debates, pre-game analysis. (2) Hillary Clinton has a book forthcoming....
1. Observations on visiting China after ten years away. 2. “The rise of software accounts for two-thirds of the labor share decline in Korea between 1990 and 2018.” 3. Zvi on Claude Sonnet 3.5. 4. 120k in AI forecasting prizes....
More and more, Israel is becoming a case study in national pathology. It keeps relentlessly and savagely killing Gazans and oblitherating their social structures, apparently in case their genocide-in-progress falls short. It is defiant despite its near-complete global isolation, seemingly...
