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From the NYT and PredictIt. Source: NYT, accessed 5/30/2024, 5pm CT. Source: PredictIt, accessed 5/30/2024, 5:36pm CT. Source: PredictIt, accessed 5/30/2024, 6:18pm CT. Source link

Surprisingly easy, it turned out. In a series of new research tests, Kovács found that a panel of human reviewers could not distinguish between reviews […]

There are various arguments about what makes a state legitimate, or what gives the state authority in a way that creates a duty to obey. […]

1. Alex Ross on Yuja Wang (New Yorker). 2. More on South Korea’s gender gap. 3. Kyla Scanlon now has a book. 4. San Francisco’s […]

Yves here. Although many here are well aware of this story, it bears repeating. The United States is running an accommodative monetary policy, with the […]

Excellent Tim Taylor on the new plasma donation paper: John M Dooley and Emily A Gallagher take a different approach in “Blood Money: Selling Plasma […]

Something Strange Happens to Wolves Infected by Unknown Mind-Altering Science Warning Stocktaking: Dollar Commodities, Gold, and Official Foreign Exchange Areas Federal Reserve Bank of New […]

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is a summary of the episode: Michael Nielsen is a scientist who helped pioneer quantum computing and […]

I haven’t listened yet, but I’m told he goes through explaining Coase in the lighthouse… The post Miley’s speech at Hoover (in Spanish) appeared first […]

Tip Point Revenge: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, will be out in October. The post Malcolm Gladwell’s new book appeared first on […]