Saturday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen May 17, 2025 at 12:12 pm

1. Should we change the status of statins?

2. Article once covered on MR retracted by MIT. And more detail here.

3. Single-stair apartment buildings are coming to Colorado.

4. Burgess Meredith explains a British pub, in the 1940s, eight-minute video.

5. New Yorker profile of Katherine Boyle.

6. “… in 1938 there were just under 11,000 degrees awarded by British universities. In 1970 63,000. In 23/24 over 1,100,000 degrees were awarded!”

7. UK overtakes China as second largest Treasuries holder (FT).

8. Henry Oliver on Jane Austen (FT).