Thursday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen July 30, 2026 at 12:24 pm

1. Joshua Rothman on lookism.

2. Young adults are using AI to manage their social media feeds (WSJ).

3. What predicts an NBA Achilles tear?

4. LLM data set on changing cultural trends over the centuries.

5. Xi’an Famous Foods is coming to Clarendon.

6. If a German expressionist movie director had filmed a silent Odyssey in the 1920s.

7. Important NBER methods lecture at 3 p.m. eastern today.