*The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned*
By John Strausbaugh, an excellent book. Here is one good passage of many: Putting dogs on top of rockets was nothing new. Since so little
A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviors
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,
Sunday assorted links
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.
Thursday assorted links
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
Is broadband good for you?
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
What to think of Luka?
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
Those circularity-inducing service sector jobs
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
Okie-dokie, canonized teen blogger edition
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
How important is “the scientific method”?
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,