1. What is taught in today’s graduate programs as macroeconomics is entirely useless for the kinds of questions we are interested in.
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- Is economics an excuse for inaction? No, it is not. But there's a reason people think it is.
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- The American Economic Journal: Microeconomics managed to go an entire year without accepting a paper! Academic Publishing: How I think we got here
- That zero effect may not mean what you think it means
- What do you need to do to make a matching estimator convincing? Rhetorical vs statistical checks
- Big data helped us estimate the impact of an intervention with 0.8% take-up
- Multiple Discrete Choices - Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's slides
- Least squares as springs: physics intuition for regression and other methods that minimize squared error. We can imagine springs pulling the model toward the data.
- The Overedge Catalog: New Types of Research Organizations
- Database of Political Institutions 2020
- The Strategy of Economic Development is a classic of offbeat Hirschmanian insight. His main idea is simple: that the “ability to make development decisions”–not capital, or labor, or any other material factor—is the limited resource constraining economic development. The Real Development Was The Friends We Made Along The Way
- When should you cluster standard errors? New wisdom from the econometrics oracle
- The economics discipline is hoarding resources and preventing social science reform
- Against mathematical proof
- Odds ratios are a catastrophe
- Matrix Completion for Causal Models
- A “Long and Squiggly” Test of Parallel Trends in Difference-in-Differences
- Notes on Persistence and Economic Development
- What Is the P-value of Bullshit?
- Exploring Economics
- Why us the labor share of income declining?
- Good writing matters in economics! by Claudia Sahm
- The Heart of Teaching Economics: interview with Robert Frank, Cornell University, 2009.
- Not Waving but Drowning: Depression, Anxiety and Suicidality among Economics PhD students
2. Allston and Brighton are for Drinkin' and Fightin'
More from the U.S.
- When it’s time to scrutinize the South, people make sweeping statements as if suddenly the only people who live here are white supremacists. Your disdain for the South is just anti-Blackness
- Your Home’s Value Is Based on Racism
- Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens
- Celebrating Juneteenth in Galveston
- White Tech Startup Founders Are 50,000% More Likely to Get Funded in Kenya Than The USA
- The Radical Generosity of Charles Mills
- The Manifest Destiny of Computing
- Book Review: The Ameriguns by Gabriele Galimberti
- Keep McKinsey Away from Biden's Infrastructure Push
- National Parks Should Belong to Native Americans
- Astral Codex Ten's summary and commentary on Paul Fussell's "Class: A Guide Through The American Status System"
- An underfunded and overworked IRS has enabled a handful of plutocratic tax cheats to live large at the expense of everyone else.
- We all hate Facebook, and Facebook (the corporation) is, admittedly, terrible. But to a large extent, we hate Facebook because Facebook is other people.
- What Class Rage Feels Like
- Athletes and Mental Health
- Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See Their Prices
3. Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny: superhero films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it
Schitt's Creek, LGBTQIA+ contents, and more on sexuality
- Where are all the LGBT astrophysicists?
- My Queer Life According to Schitt’s Creek by Martha Schoolman
- Dan Levy Talks Season 5’s Coming Out Episode
- Noah Reid: “I really wanted to do that justice, and as a straight guy, I was concerned that I wasn’t going to be able to. And on the day, I was just so struck by the feeling of fear. I felt I was putting myself in the shoes of this man I’ve been playing for two years, and he was having to explain to the people closest to him something about himself that was integral, that he was worried that they might not accept, the people that are supposed to know you the best and love you the most, that they might think of you differently, or turn on you or disregard you.” Farewell Schitt’s Creek, the hit sitcom with a heart of gold
- "As a straight male, how would u feel about your child having a homosexual school teacher?!" "As a straight male, the best teacher I ever had was a gay man. Among many other things, he taught me the difference between “there,” “their” and “they’re.” I would have been absolutely delighted for my daughter to have known him. I sang at his funeral." Meet Keith Johnson
- Islamic homophobia is empowered by leftist silence
- Kita Butuh Lebih Banyak Serial Seperti “CONQ”
- CONQ
- People have been asking me about Jasnah’s sexuality. Gay, Bi, Straight, other? I usually answer with some variation of the following: “Jasnah would prefer you focus on other aspects of her identity, rather than her sexuality.” Jasnah is asexual, and currently heteroromantic.
- Mengenang Jejak Queer dalam Budaya Pop Kita
- Tips for Talking with Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Merayakan Pride dengan “Main” Bersama Negara
- ASEAN Queer Imaginings: Collection of Writings
- Former 'Bachelor' star Colton Underwood exclusive interview with Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America"
- Porn Education Is Totally Unprepared for Modern Porn
- BU Out List and BU LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff Community Network
- LGBTQ Economists, Women Economists, and URM Economists list to diversify econ seminars
- Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau
- Mengarsipkan memori di Queer Indonesia Archive
4. Fujianese brought China to the world, carried their provincialism identity to the Nanyang (Southeast Asia), and bless us with dishes like lumpia (潤餅), bakmie (肉麵,) bakut (肉骨茶), terang bulan or martabak manis (曼煎粿), and many more.
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- Indonesia’s invisible people face discrimination, and sometimes death, by database
- Repositori cerita rakyat
- Desing Pesawat di Tengah Konflik Adat: Studi Atas Pembangunan Bandara Stevanus Rumbewas, Kampung Kamanap, Kabupaten Kepulauan Yapen, Provinsi Papua
- Vietnam is achieving OECD levels of learning. When we asked why, they told us: 'because they wanted it'. India and Indonesia both illustrate ways you can go wrong. India never changed their mind about having a selection system rather than an education system. Indonesia was different, most kids learned some basics. Many people think of India as doing better, but India does worse for the average person while also producing a smart elite whose members sometime win a Nobel Prize. Indonesia did far better at covering the basics, but they never really provoked themselves to go further. Now they're stuck at this low-level equilibirium of mediocrity. Lant Pritchett in conversation with Ann Bernstein
- Ketika mba mengatakan ikan kuah kuning [di Tanimbar] itu ga enak, yang mba hujat dan hina bukan cuma sepiring ikan kuah kuning itu saja. Mba menghujat, menghina, merendahkan ikan, kunyit, laut, tanah, manusia Tanimbar. Mba merendahkan ibu dan tangan yang memasak dan menghidangkan ikan kuah kuning itu. Mba, di sini Mba Ade membawa logika kolonial soal rasa. Talucu Lidah di Ikan Kuah Kuning
- Kami Sesak Napas: Hilang Nafkah, Hilang Nyawa di Kampung Kota Jakarta Saat Wabah Covid-19
- Was there a Sriwijaya?
- Photos from early 1900s Java: "A Javanese man with white spots on his upper body", "Three men at a home undergoing improvement, protection against plague, Java.", "Procession in Java with a woman with 'bedak' [powder] on her face, customary at weddings", "Group of people with a Javanese married couple in the middle"
- The Aceh Project
5. Have you ever stopped to wonder why our bodies settle at 37deg C?
More on the environment and climate change
- A Climate Dystopia in Northern California
- Economists could have helped in the fight against climate change. So far, they haven't. Why has climate economics failed us?
- Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus. Chapter 1. Waking Up
- Out of Antarctica, churnings of climate change
- Nitrogen fertilizers are incredibly efficient, but they make climate change a lot worse
- A 'Record-Breaking and Dangerous' Heat Wave Is About to Hit the West Coast
- Two long years ago, I wrote about Miami. All The Right Words On Climate Have Already Been Said
- The NYT stopped shilling for cigarettes. Why won't it stop shilling for fossil fuels?
6. I’ll be excellent, even though I’m exhausted. And I am excellent. I am owed more, and I am full of spite, and I will be exceptional. But gods, wouldn’t it be nice if I didn’t have to be?
Writings, short stories, and poems
- To Love Someone Long-Term Is to Attend a Thousand Funerals of the People They Used to Be by Heidi Priebe
- The last influence of Anton Chekhov’s “Gooseberries"
- I wanted to write some descriptions of light. But I keyed the descriptions to the way I might ordinarily describe (a) water and (b) tin cans.
- “The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” Best Story Wins
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means
- T.S. Eliot reads The Ad-dressing of Cats, 1947
- Ezra Klein Interviews Ted Chiang
- With “Ted Lasso,” I’ve found myself running it back on specific episodes to elicit a feeling I very specifically associate with that episode — one that somehow isn’t lessened even when I know exactly what’s going to happen.
- Here's why Substack's scam worked so well: they paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative
- "Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." Structured Procrastination
- The Protagonist Problem by Ada Palmer and Jo Walton
- Why is speculative “Young Adult” fiction the most popular genre of 21st century America? 21st century Americans are a people who feel stripped of agency. Speculative YA fiction are fairy tales custom-made to express the frustrations of this age. Myths of the Over-managed
- Jose Kecil dalam Dirimu, cerpen oleh Kaisar Deem
- The sensation of doing anything just because it felt good had been nearly lost in the all-consuming project of shaping a version of myself that other people might see from the outside and admire, and, through admiring, love. The one exception to this was reading, which I did only for myself, because I liked it, and because when I read I stopped thinking for one goddam second about what was wrong with me, why nobody liked me.
- Hummingbirds and the Ecstatic Moment by Jeff Vandermeer
- Radio Silence
- My Country Is a Ghost
- Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders
- “The Sixth Gun” Retrospective: Interview with Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt
- Bunn, Hurtt & Crabtree Celebrate "The Sixth Gun's" Final Issue
- I do not want to write today
7. Ideas of India: Coming Out as Dalit
More from the Pacific, Israel, China, and Africa
- In some industries, Pacific communities see less than 12% of the final value of the resources being extracted, with little paid in royalties or reinvested in the countries which own the resources. Pacific Plunder
- Nauru: riches to rags to riches
- Joe Biden’s Alarming Record on Israel
- If Israel Eliminated Hamas, Nothing Fundamental Would Change
- End the Nakba Now
- Backlash to Ben & Jerry’s decision to distinguish between Israel and the territories it occupies has shown that, for many Israelis, the distinction no longer exists.
- Secrecy and Abuse Claims Haunt China’s Solar Factories in Xinjiang
- Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang
- One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps
- Beijing forced an Uyghur Australian woman to break the silence after sentencing her husband to 25 years in jail
- Qin Hui on Sent-Down Youth
- How I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers
- A tale from Communist China
- China's 2020 census has revealed that the three northeastern provinces have seen their combined population decline by 11 million people, or roughly 10%, since the 2010 census.
- “I Have Blood On My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
- Five Scenarios of State Collapse in Ethiopia
- What is ethnofederalism? What are its consequences for violence, the ‘hardening’ of ethnic identities, and secession? Ethiopia’s ethnofederalism
- Somaliland at 30: Still unrecognised, but alive and well
- Oh, how hard it is to speak Spanish!
- Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays calling it ‘bone music’
8. But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend of sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone. Friendship
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9. For three years, I studied HIV replication in T-cells under researchers Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó. She was a dynamo, with a passion for science that rubbed off on those around her. Seeing Karikó get so excited about scientific findings that weren’t even related to her research, I got a sense about her: she couldn’t not be a scientist. It was baked into her bones. Luckily for us, now. How Our Brutal Science System Almost Cost Us A Pioneer Of mRNA Vaccines
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- Israeli data: How can efficacy vs. severe disease be strong when 60% of hospitalized are vaccinated?
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- 'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope by Rebecca Solnit
- Siranap
- Private Choices Have Public Consequences If you have ever spoken to an anti-vaxx person, you truly will not ever convince these people that this is Still About A Virus, because they never once believed that anything is ever about more than their own sour selves, and a jealous world’s conspiracy against their comfort.
10. You would think apostates from an ideology or religion would often be the most sophisticated critics of the old ideas, but they are usually the dumbest. Why is that?
More on science, research, and rationality
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- A New Map of All the Particles and Forces
- Agnes Callard on the Ezra Klein podcast
- Psychology has in recent years been racking up reversals: in fact only 40-65% of its classic social results were replicated.
- Thoughts of work invaded my life—until I learned how to unplug
- Being Suicidal: What It Feels Like to Want to Kill Yourself
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
11. Ending & honoring Duolingo's volunteer Contributor program
Miscellanea
- Duolingo Moderator Knowledge Base
- It’s everywhere on the Internet right now—NFT this, Rarible that. Tokens, tokens, come get your tokens! What does it mean to buy a GIF?
- Therapy exists where the placebo effect meets self-help meets a confession booth. Where would I be without therapy? I can’t know. Has it helped? I hope so. The Therapy-App Fantasy
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- After three hours of a pelvis-shaking Gummy Bear assault, I was spongy and weak, surprised that I had any bones left. I cursed Haribo with the little strength I could muster.
- The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? by Michael Pollan
- Why do white people eat bland food?
- On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't
- How “Social Penumbras” Explain Shifts in Attitudes Toward Different Social Groupshttps://behavioralscientist.org/how-social-penumbras-explain-shifts-in-attitudes-toward-different-social-groups/)
- The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
- A contestant in Great British Bake Off Season 3 blogged about her experiences: Bake Off Confidential – bittersweet adventures and Tears of despair before the GBBO semi final – tears of relief after.
- BU 2010 Disorientation Guide
- The way people talk about non-dairy milk, you’d think it was a fad dreamed up by vegans in the ’90s. Unfortunately for people who’d like to simplify all narratives around not using animal products, almond milk dates back to at least 1226. On Milk
- What desires does the use of this technology generate? How does this technology empower me? At whose expense? Does using this technology require me to think more or less? Can I be held responsible for the actions which this tech empowers? Would I feel better if I couldn't? 41 questions concerning technology
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