Friday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen March 3, 2023 at 11:36 am

1. Eric Topol on the new breakthrough obesity drugs.

2. A taxonomy of Mexico City horns.

3. The polity that is Florida.

4. Air Force OKs hand and neck tattoos.

5. Good David Brooks piece on the importance of the arts (NYT).

6. Scaling automatic speech recognition beyond 100 languages. And reconstructing visual images from human brain activity. As I’ve been telling you, advances every single day.

7. “They eliminated standardized testing before they eliminated legacy admissions. Tells you all you need to know.“