Said Snowden: “Well, the good news is there’s no program named ‘the dick pic program.’ The bad news is they are still collecting everybody’s information,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action. As we expect never to hear from Chris again, here are IPA’s weekly links: With the
I hesitate to publish anything on April 1, but the interview’s dateline was yesterday. What I’m saying is I’ve become much more pragmatic about all
From William Easterly and Laura Freschi in 2011, “UN Revealed to be Gigantic 66-year-old Hoax”: “I can’t believe it lasted this long,” said “US Ambassador
Kiss you afternoon productivity goodbye. Here I am playing my commute from home to my Columbia office: Just go to a Google Map page and look
Perhaps most of all with Samuel Beckett. The Swiss tennis champion Stan Wawrinka has the words “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail
Why the world is getting weirder Qatar press-gangs migrant workers into running a marathon (to display it’s sports organizing prowess?) Proffesor. We’ve all been there.
From the pre-Revolutionary period until World War II, tenants in New York City were uniformly given three months’ notice of annual rent increases on February
No, I’m not going to complain about the whitewashing of an authoritarian regime. I’m used to people trading off someone else’s freedom for GDP growth. Or
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action. In case you missed it last week, Chris is letting Innovations for Poverty Action (where
Obama floated the idea of mandatory voting. John Sides says it won’t make a difference. X-Files is returning to Fox for 6 episodes Not The
I’m amazed there are people who make this quality of fan animation on their own. I don’t know if I’m amazed by the talent, the
What can quantitative linguistic analysis tell us about the operations and outlook of the international financial institutions? At first glance, the words most frequently used
A couple of months ago, Grieve Chelwa, a PhD student in South Africa, wrote a much-tweeted and blogged post about Economics’ Africa problem. A huge
Offensive lineman for Baltimore Ravens publishes in math journals in his spare time The science of empathy and why we hate our enemies Story: I, Robot
From Wonkblog. Via @ConradHackett, one of the most interesting Twitter feeds I follow.
Via @MonaChalabi. Potter is a sociopath, apparently.
Last week Jerry Seinfeld cancelled his first ever performance in India because of traffic and parking issues. Two Indians responded with this South Asian Seinfeld
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action. Chris has generously offered to let us at IPA (where he’s a Research Affiliate) share
Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespearean scholar, tells the tale of his invited lecture at the University of Tehran: Jonson’s praise of Shakespeare’s imaginative and verbal powers—his fancy, his notions, and
An important but unreported indicator of Ferguson’s dilemma is that half of young African American men are missing from the community. According to the U.S.
