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Who hires the most UC alumni? New data shows the top employers of graduates Guess what. The biggest employers are universities. mercurynews.com/2025/07/16/who…

My new blog post is an essay about The Exceptionalism of US Higher Education. davidlabaree.com

AI Will Never Be Your Kid’s Friend (Russell Shaw) larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/ai-… via @CubanLarry

Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off. Source: humanprogress.org/the-simon-abun…

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economist.com/leaders/2025/0…

2024 US foreign aid spending was 1% of the federal budget Americans, on average, believe it is 26% of the federal budget and 15% believe it is more than half! kff.org/global-health-…

My new blog post is an essay by Carly Ann York "In Defense of Silly Science." She argues that basic science, pursued in order to explore an interesting intellectual issue rather than to solve a current problem, is provides enormous social benefits. davidlabaree.com

Today's AI models, after being pre-trained on pretty much the entirety of the Web, and fine-tuned to give coherent responses to user questions, are subject to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (somewhere BF Skinner is smiling). The problem is that the binary

What do you think people living under feudalism thought of Mondays?

My new blog post is an essay by Carly Ann York "In Defense of Silly Science." She argues that basic science, pursued in order to explore an interesting intellectual issue rather than to solve a current problem, is provides enormous social benefits. davidlabaree.com

ourworldindata.org/data-insights/…

Experts in academe. open.substack.com/pub/hilariusbo…

These Scholarly Topics Are Hotly Debated. So Why Don’t Syllabi Reflect That? chronicle.com/article/these-…

The Internet's Vanishing Memory open.substack.com/pub/stevenmint…

It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the fewest deaths related to extreme weather of any half year in recorded human history. open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielk…