Reddit has an Ask Me Anything with Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald. Interesting throughout. Snowden easily has the most interesting answers. For example, on
Henry Farrell has a truly fantastic article about the hidden internet and anonymous communication (via Tor, for instance) and how libertarian and anarchist dreams collide with
Last week’s post spurred a bunch of great suggestions from commenters. The RWDI contenders, in no particular order: Number of tall buildings not occupied by the government or
IPA and J-PAL have a new data replication archive. Most or all of my published papers make available full, original survey datasets in addition to the
Currently, the federal government gives just 24 cents in postsecondary education improvement grants for every $100 in grants for research. From an NYT op-ed yesterday
Freakonomics interview with World Bank President Jim Kim Limited airborne transfer of Ebola is “likely” Does FT win headline of the year? “Political ambitions limited
Euphoria, by Lily King. Pioneering anthropologists in the field, making it up as they go along: The novel. Inspired by Margaret Mead. Probably the best
Every seminar these days has pictures of program activities. So, of course, I take more photos than I used to in the past. This time
This article gives a guide to insulting scientists. At the top of the list: Mostly publishes in specialized journals Moderate productivity Papers are mostly descriptive Trainees
NASA Releases a five-year time lapse video of the Sun that uses 2,600 Terabytes of data: Which brings to mind the videos that zoom out
I’ll be giving the comparative politics seminar 1-230pm. Here’s the paper title and abstract Reducing adult poverty, crime and violence through late-stage noncognitive investments: Experimental evidence
Jason Kottke relates a passage from an explainer video on the One Ring from the Lord of the Rings: “First, the ring tempts everyone (well, almost everyone)
Salon reports: In 2012, a proactive Australian anti-vaxxer named Stephanie Messenger self-published a children’s book called “Melanie’s Marvelous Measles.” With the book, Messenger endeavored to
Unlikely, but consider: He did lobby to get The Tonight Show after Leno, He’s actually quite funny, and We now know he’s good at fake news. The
Marquette University is firing a tenured professor for irresponsible blogging The story of Google Maps on its 10th anniversary Has Latin America always been unequal? Not
Can forced assimilation policies integrate immigrant groups? In the period 1917–1923, several US states barred foreign languages from their schools, often targeting German explicitly. Yet
The answer is “not all that long ago” The very interesting Poverty Analysis blog points me to this graph and argument by Martin Ravallion (which I
Part of an oddly fascinating Vox post by Brad Plumer:I expect some PhD student to use this as an instrumental variable soon. If I knew for
A new robot just discovered that a mixture of elements that can fight cancer can also treat malaria. Will artificial intelligence be able to unearth
Slow runners live longest (I should live to 120) Can US foreign aid buy hearts and minds? Create a font from your own handwriting The
The job posting is here. It is through Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and J-PAL Please only apply or ask questions via the instructions on
