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East/Southeast Asia travel bleg 25 Aug 2013 | 05:47 pm
We are ignorant of options and looking for suggestions, especially from those who have traveled with young kids. Jeannie and I will take the kids (they will be not quite 1 and 3) to east or southeast...
Is it nuts to give money to the poor? 19 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
I’m breaking my blog holiday. It’s a special occasion: Planet Money reporters David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein went to Kenya to see the work of a charity called GiveDirectly in action. Instead of...
Blog holiday until early September 11 Jul 2013 | 07:49 pm
A combination of travel, baby care, and vacation will conspire against my blogging the next month or two. Basically, I have more work than usual and less time to do it. Thus a blog holiday is in order...
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a huge, scary treatment effect 3 Jul 2013 | 07:25 pm
We exploit the occurrence of postpartum depression (PPD), which has a random component according to the medical community, to estimate causal effects of a salient form of mental illness on couples’ re...
What makes science majors different? 3 Jul 2013 | 06:09 pm
We find that the substantial overoptimism about completing a degree in science can be attributed largely to students beginning school with misperceptions about their ability to perform well academical...
Picture of the day? Irony. Bitter irony. 2 Jul 2013 | 07:33 pm
From here. Sadly no details. Update: A commenter points me to this Brazilian publication. In Google Translate’s view, it reads: A factory in Sao Goncalo, the metropolitan area of Rio, is producing...
“You want to know why revolutions happen? Because little by little by little things get worse and worse.” 2 Jul 2013 | 06:24 pm
I don’t think I’ve seen a better short description of life in a dictatorship, or the roots of revolution, than this miscellaneous comment in a reddit thread on government eavesdropping. (With the foll...
Mars had oxygen-rich atmosphere 4 billion years ago? 2 Jul 2013 | 06:08 pm
The implication is that Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere at a time, about 4 billion years ago, well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen on earth around 2.5 billion years ago. As oxidation is what ...
Former Google reader users: What you need to do today and tomorrow 1 Jul 2013 | 09:37 pm
Trey Miller, whom I trust on these matters, has the lowdown here. The post Former Google reader users: What you need to do today and tomorrow appeared first on Chris Blattman.
Links I liked 1 Jul 2013 | 08:57 pm
Andrew Sullivan: If you can live with divorce, you can live with gay marriage IKEA refugee shelter? Prepare to airdrop Allen keys… Political economy of drones Best short jokes? The post Links I li...
