One last example of a recent technology that scaled exceptionally well comes not from business but from social activism. In the days following the murder
One last example of a recent technology that scaled exceptionally well comes not from business but from social activism. In the days following the murder
The best of dibs in Chicago: A photo essay of the objects people use to assert their property rights over a snow-filled parking spot they
On Tuesday I pointed to research that the Green Revolution might be the greatest antidote to poverty and poor health in human history. The revolution
On Tuesday I pointed to research that the Green Revolution might be the greatest antidote to poverty and poor health in human history. The revolution
On Tuesday I pointed to research that the Green Revolution might be the greatest antidote to poverty and poor health in human history. The revolution
Little Richard at the 1988 Grammys “Interestingness = Novelty + Importance” and other simple writing advice from The Atlantic‘s David Thompson “When the Taliban offers
We estimate the impact of the Green Revolution in the developing world by exploiting exogenous heterogeneity in the timing and extent of the benefits derived
It began a few years ago, when prominent democracy rating organizations started downgrading the United States, putting its institutions on par with Panama, Argentina, or
There’s a pattern that we frequently see in the development of a new technology. Initially, the practical functionality is limited by the technology itself –
I’d come to Colombia to find a man named Isaac Bedoya, described by the Colombian media as Latin America’s most notorious sloth trader. The country’s
Topography of Colombia If you like Wordle, you might also like this history timeline game (via Kottke) Great thread on why violence sometimes rises, sometimes
The statistical assistants at ISI were literally called ‘computers’ (I was a bit taken aback when on the first day a man came to see
Censorship is hard: Fight Club is getting an entirely different ending in a new online release in China, where imported films are often altered to
A friend asked this on Twitter, and it got me thinking about our approach. To a lot of people, unless it’s a resort, taking kids
A photoessay with Bolivian skateboarding girls, via kottke Gimlet is killing it podcast-wise, including this 2-part Heavyweight episode and this one from Crime Show —
Russia is a strategic petrostate in a double sense. It is too big a part of global energy markets to permit Iran-style sanctions against Russian
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned
The universe was born in light. If modern cosmology is right, for the first forty thousand years or so after the Big Bang the most
What the Spider-verse sadly missed (above) The anti wordle Great slides on why you should use Poisson regression instead of using log(1+y) Advice from Abby
We use literacy tests in survey data to construct long-term trends in literacy for 87 developing countries, spanning birth cohorts from the 1950s to 2000.
