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FDA Deregulation of E-Cigarettes Saved Lives and Spurred Innovation

What would happen to drug development if the FDA lost its authority to prohibit new drugs? Would research and development boom and lives be saved?

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It’s Time to Build the Peptidome!

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem. Peptides, short sequences of amino acids, are nature’s first defense against bacteria. Research on antimicrobial peptides is promising but

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AI Improves Student Learning and Engagement

In our paper on online education, Tyler and I wrote: One model of a future course is a super-textbook: lectures, exercises, quizzes, and grading all

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*Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life*

That is the new Agnes Callard book, very good, self-recommending. I would say my views on some of these issues are different.  In my vision,

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Canada’s missing entrepreneurs

From John Ruffalo. The post Canada’s missing entrepreneurs appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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How to Visit India for Normies

In the comments to my post, India has Too Few Tourists, many people worried about the food, the touts and the poverty. Many of these

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Merry Christmas!

Wishing all our readers a wonderful day and New Year! The post Merry Christmas! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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Merry Christmas from Spinoza!

The post Merry Christmas from Spinoza! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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AI is Not Slowing Down, Except for Stop Lights

After 25.3 million fully autonomous miles a new study from Waymo and Swiss Re concludes: [T]he Waymo ADS significantly outperformed both the overall driving population

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Is Indian food the world’s best?

From my latest Bloomberg column: Why is the food so good? I have several overlapping hypotheses, most of them coming from my background as an