ECONOMY
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A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviors
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- . June 13, 2024
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,
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Sunday assorted links
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 10, 2024
1. David Friedman reminiscences about his earlier colleagues. 2. John Arnold, on the debt. 3. South Africa vs. Nigeria. 4. Chinese local government financing vehicles.
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Thursday assorted links
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 7, 2024
1. Good thread on AI and national security. 2. NYT on South African jazz. Here is one cut. 3. Scott Sumner on modernism. 4. Finland
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Is broadband good for you?
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 4, 2024
Kathryn R. Johnson and Claudia Persico have a new NBER working paper on exactly that topic: Between 2000 and 2008, access to high-speed, broadband internet
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What to think of Luka?
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 1, 2024
I am receiving inquiries as to whether I have upgraded my view of Luka, as his last series against Minnesota was masterful, above say the
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Those circularity-inducing service sector jobs
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . May 29, 2024
Yes, in Tokyo women pay men in make-up to flatter them. But what does the whole market look like? Yamada Kurumi, a client, works at
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Okie-dokie, canonized teen blogger edition
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . May 26, 2024
An early-aughts blog is probably not where you’d expect to find the next Mother Teresa, but that is where Carlo Acutis — soon to become
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How important is “the scientific method”?
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . May 22, 2024
From a recently published paper by Alexander Krauss: Using data on all major discoveries across science including all Nobel Prize and major non-Nobel Prize discoveries,