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Friday assorted links
1. Robin Hanson theorizes about aliens.
2. Wokeness is maybe the source of lower well-being on the Left?
3. Rubber Soul but only bass and drums.
4. Dror Poleg is running “a ventures approach to peace.”
5. Italy will ban “synthetic meat.”
6. Salim Furth book review on Japanese urbanism.
8. Poll data on shifting U.S. views on Israel and Palestine.
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Tuesday assorted links
1. Can a political candidate promise “no taxes”? (The culture that is Argentina)
2. Embryologists inundated with requests for sperm retrieval from the fallen and dead.
4. Does free play for kids lead to happier adults?
5. New science blog by Ulkar Aghaeva, first post on Merton and multiple discoveries. NB: Proper link here: https://measureformeasure.co/blog/multiple-discoveries/
Monday assorted links
1. Those new service sector jobs. East vs. west coast money.
2. Scottish NIMBY vs. Stella McCartney. Environmental review is out of control.
3. 104-year-old woman jumps from plane, dies in her sleep a week later.
4. Why not look at fake views in your digital windows?
5. Should Britain “outsource” by sending prisoners abroad to other nations? If so, to which ones?
6. “One thing that the rise of social media (particularly Twitter) did is to suddenly put Americans in direct contact with people from all over the world, without Americans realizing this. A lot of the radicalization of Americans over the last decade came from overseas.” From Noah Smith.
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Saturday assorted links
2. Hezbollah’s arsenal of weapons.
3. Israeli billionaire quits Harvard board.
4. What might be in those scrolls.
5. Louise Gluck, RIP. She was one of our best poets, even if not the equal of Shakespeare.
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Wednesday assorted links
1. Alice Evans on Claudia Goldin.
2. Interview with Michael Lewis. Yikes.
3. Russ Roberts tells me that he was not born in Ames, Iowa, though he did spend 1957 there (see this now-corrected post).
4. Kevin Phillips, RIP. An early theorist of populism and its rise.
6. Jason Farago piece on whether our culture is stagnating (NYT, note there is much I disagree with in this piece, nonetheless the issues are interesting).
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Saturday assorted links
1. Model this.
2. A bunch of claims about nobles, genetics, and violence.
3. New results on interpretability. And much more detail. Potentially very good news. One interpretation. Some are becoming less pessimistic.
4. Arnold Kling on the trouble with books. Remedies will come!
Friday assorted links
1. Dan Rothschild reviews Alexandra Hudson’s The Soul of Civility.
2. Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness, by Carrie Sheffield, forthcoming 2024.
3. Nabeel on Jon Fosse. And Merve Emre on Fosse.
4. Woman named Siri changes her name.
5. There is no great stagnation who would spend millions on this?