Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of behaviors. How such control is implemented by the brain, however, remains unclear. Advancing our understanding requires models that can relate principles of control to the...
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Yves here. The New York City publication THE CITY and reporter Rosalind Adams deserve a round of applause for their in-depth reporting in State Cannabis Officials Repeatedly Raised Alarms to Hochul’s Team Over Private Equity Loan Deal, Internal Emails Show....
On South African electricity (from the comments) - Marginal REVOLUTION Thank-you! You've been successfully added to the Marginal Revolution email subscription list. Source link...
Yves here. This may seem like a small victory and it is likely to wind up being isolated. But US multinationals hiring goons of various sorts to do their dirty work overseas is a well-established practice, and of course one...
Yves here. The new problems coming up with the Biden Administration scheme to limit Medicare drug prices is a predictable outcome of trying to find a simple path through a highly complex system you don’t fully understand. We’ve repeatedly written...
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was in China on June 3 and mentioned the possibility of Türkiye joining the BRICS, the economic alliance acronymically named after its founding members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Fidan added that BRICS...
All have a positive gradient in Q1. Figure 1: GDP (bold black), GDO (tan), and GDP+ (sky blue), all in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR. GDP, GDO based on 2nd release. Small % at right are Q1 SAAR growth rates. Source: BEA, Philadelphia...
Perhaps “both” is the correct answer? The right-wing tendencies are easiest to explain. South Africa is obviously much wealthier than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and of course Westerners play a larger role in its history and also in its...
