Finance

1. How pro-China is Singapore? 2. Will home insurance become mainstream? 3. He has an AI arm (NYT). 4. Hari Kunzru in reading, and re-reading, […]

I woke up in the middle of the night last week and turned on Turner Movie Classics (TCM). Playing then was a 1954 film Brigadoon. […]

Here’s a hot shopping tip that I suspect most readers won’t be able to take advantage of – right now, Apple is discounting the iPhone […]

MSNBC asked me to share my thoughts on the FDA and sunscreen. I think the episode came out very well. Here are the key graphs: […]

Australian scientists discover ancient BBC ‘echidnapus’ Scientists reveal surprising role of brain in immune regulation PsyPost. Paul R: “I wonder if this could be related […]

That’s a newly translated Brazilian novel by Itamar Vieira Junior, set in Bahia. It’s best to read this one without any spoilers. And I am […]

I won’t be there long, but what should I see and what should I eat? What is the average level of safety these days? Thank […]

The author is Bjorn Lomborg, and the subtitle is 12 effective solutions for the world’s poorest and our global SDG pledges. I missed this book […]

1. “Our work raises the intriguing possibility that asymmetric order can emerge more easily than previously thought, even before that order is directly functional, with […]

Consequences of the War on Drugs™ in Other Countries In 1996, Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control Chuck Grassley testified that recent research had shown […]