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Clean water in India: Is delivering water a viable solution? Last week on VoxDev, Fiona Burlig (Harris Policy Energy Policy Institute at UChicago), Amir Jina & Anant Sudarshan (Warwick Economics) provided evidence on an understudied approach to delivering clean water in rural India: voxdev.org/topic/health/c…

Hugely disappointed at change of name of India-England tests trophy from Nawab of Pataudi Trophy to Tendulkar-Anderson trophy. Nawab was the real moderniser of Indian Cricket. At cover he is to prance like a tiger, while other gentlemen found it difficult even to bend. 1/2

Tenure

If you're a student applying to the US from India, consider staying within the civilised world and studying in the UK instead.

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Everyone who lives in the US wonders - How is this country so rich (GDP) but feels (relatively) poor (infra, homelessness). So here is another puzzle. Historically electricity consumption has always been tightly correlated with GDP. But apparently not anymore for US GDP?

🧵Israel’s blockade criminalises baby formula, transforming a newborn’s first feed into a deliberate weapon of genocide

How is it the UK is (so we are told) full of illegal immigrants or poorly skilled immigrants with uncertain incomes BUT if you're applying for a visa legally, you have a million pieces of paperwork to submit all of which should be impossible for anyone without a great job?

So Israels plan is to imprison 2 million people in a camp built on rubble & to refuse to let them out unless they leave Gaza.

Grok 4 is a brilliant model. But it needs a custom set of instructions. What I use is below. This matters a lot. By default there is way too much weight placed on Elon opinions either by design or due to his X follower count

All AI manages to do for me is produce output that is 90% of the way there. This ensures that the AI removes all the fun parts of work (eg structuring a talk) leaving the thrilling experience of debugging someone else’s code or text.

✍🏻 Magic ball theory beats India goodareas.co/p/magic-ball-t…

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Have to be very careful to screen out the baby formula that Hamas terrorists are asking for, presumably to feed their premature Hamas babies

There is *so much* variation even across Europe on which immigrants come in and how their children do. Figure (Boustan et al) shows rank gap vs. native-born for immigrants and their children. One of the richest graphs around. What is going on here? 1/

Remember with the hospitals it went from "we would never bomb a hospital" to "hospitals are Hamas HQ, and the incubators were above a tunnel"? Same thing threatening to play out when it comes to killing starving people lining up for food.

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. theguardian.com/education/2025…

Surreal

US insurance regulations make it so the houses that aren't burned down by forest fires are instead burned down by owners.