Still hearing a lot about “Blue Zones” being the secret to longevity. But the theory was debunked a while ago. Areas of the world with people claiming to be 110+ years old are actually just places with poor record keeping and a lot of pension fraud. When official birth

all MSc Econ theses should mandatorily be replication exercises. i’m sorry but 95% (lower bound) of them are not turning into published papers. students would learn a lot more and provide a service to the profession

As part of our upcoming transit costs series we're looking for authors interested in writing policy briefs for how to lower transit costs. We're focused federal policy and proposals for the Surface Transportation Reauthorization. x.com/ArnabDatta321/…

broken clocks, etc

Ladies & gentlemen: the NYTimes quiz to find out if you’ll benefit from this budget bill

The Economist today saying that Britain needs to embrace air conditioning as the country is getting hotter:

also I’ve had several people send me air conditioning-related things this week and I just want to say: yes please keep it coming

my phone is mocking me for being an American abroad

one of the negatives about having a very weird career is that mentorship is harder there aren't that many physicists-turned-political scientists with a sideline in long essays to ask questions *of*

it feels like the most common thing I teach is "how to BOTEC" should I do a class on this? record a thing on it? write a substack post?

time to play the national anthem

Britain is a hot country. The sooner we accept it, the better

roon Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ Zachary Nado My understanding is the disruptions are quite large. One reason is the staffing is a small fraction of what it used to be (the state department has hired around 700 people globally to manage foreign assistance compared to 16,000 USAid staff before, e.g. Nigeria's PEPFAR program

the more NHS doctors I see, the more convinced I am that the average doctor could be replaced with a flowchart

Dean Karlan on the funding exodus from development economics research: "The returns to the work that you were just about to do have gone up, not down."

ok this weekend I am blocking out time to write a substack post that will make everyone angry feels like a very american thing to do

a key problem with being an adult is no one can stop you from buying dumb things

Kevin Kohler has an excellent post about Europe and AC: machinocene.substack.com/p/make-europe-… yes I am a broken record on this topic; no I will not be stopping

guys I think I’m… an EA influencer?

the thing with living in Europe is technically there’s nothing stopping me from going to Budapest next weekend (except any sense of fiscal discipline)