A new paper on Sierra Leone, Chief for a Day, presented by Maarten Voors at the ABCA conference: in a random subsample of villages the
Twitter shuts down an API that saves politicians’ deleted tweets The World Bank’s annual development conference on Africa is next week at Berkeley. Download the
Amanda Taub has a brilliant article in Vox: over the years, I have realized that the people asking me that question aren’t really asking for
Bolin, known to many as the “Human Chameleon,” decorates his body and clothes with color, painting himself into his surroundings, making him almost imperceptible at
That is the subtitle to a new book, The Censor’s Hand, by Carl Schneider, a Professor of Law and Medicine at University of Michigan. It’s
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Dean Karlan, Esther Duflo and many others will be at the World Bank Thursday AM,
The dreamers simply outbid us for our New York, and in the process, they created a city we no longer loved quite so much. This
As in Liberia, in Chicago? Further evidence that behavioral therapy focused on emotional regulation, impulse control, planfulness, social skills, and positive self-image can have large
A Mountain View CA resident on all the driverless cars around: better than your grandma Rap is socially planned in Cuba Amazing that we are only
Following in my tradition of posting job announcements only on behalf of people that marry me, I present several new positions in the International Rescue
All the elementary school jokes are making an appearance.
…we investigate how the scientific community’s perception of a scientist’s prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. In a story circulating widely now, Science journalist John Bohannon, explains how he planted a fake
Steven Lubet questions whether Alice Goffman’s On the Run is all true, and Alex Tabarrok’s impression that Lubet’s making mountains out of molehills. I lean to Alex’s impression and if
This study asked students and adults in the United States why they find it OK to eat meat. The largest category used to justify their
The Ottawa Humane Society wanted to do something different than the usual cute adoption pictures. More here. Hat tip to Whitney Shinkle.
My first job abroad was helping to roll out rural Internet in India, by radio. It was 2001, the peak of the dot com boom,
An Arizona woman was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for running over her husband because he failed to to cast a vote about who
We have entered a new, unexpected landscape. Truth is not typeface dependent, but a typeface can subtly influence us to believe that a sentence is
Not much. If you haven’t heard about the article, the apparent fraud, and the aftermath, follow the links. The duped coauthor, Don Green, speaks to
