By John Strausbaugh, an excellent book. Here is one good passage of many: Putting dogs on top of rockets was…
Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of behaviors. How such control is…
1. David Friedman reminiscences about his earlier colleagues. 2. John Arnold, on the debt. 3. South Africa vs. Nigeria. 4.…
1. Good thread on AI and national security. 2. NYT on South African jazz. Here is one cut. 3. Scott…
Kathryn R. Johnson and Claudia Persico have a new NBER working paper on exactly that topic: Between 2000 and 2008,…
I am receiving inquiries as to whether I have upgraded my view of Luka, as his last series against Minnesota…
Yes, in Tokyo women pay men in make-up to flatter them. But what does the whole market look like? Yamada…
An early-aughts blog is probably not where you’d expect to find the next Mother Teresa, but that is where Carlo…
From a recently published paper by Alexander Krauss: Using data on all major discoveries across science including all Nobel Prize…