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1. Problems with U.S. shipyards. 2. Satellite imaging shows there is a lot more industry in the ocean than we had thought. 3. My podcast episode with Will Bachman, most of all about talent see also the Show Notes at the link. 4. Bravo NYT, glad they signaled their intent was not to insult my […] The post Friday assorted links appeared first on...

Bari Weiss interviews myself, Niall Ferguson, John McWhorter, Peter Attia, Nate Silver, and others about the year to come.  I am not so pessimistic! The post Predictions for 2024 appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsIn reply to M. Dumb people have trained themselves to think ... by TashaIn reply to Ari. Based Jew. The thing is, the reason nobody ... by The Scary...

That is the new book by my colleague Bryan Caplan, collected largely from his previous blog writings.  Bryan emails to me: I just released a new book of essays on Amazon, entitled *You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism*.  Emerson and Thoreau were right: Excessive conformity is a major impediment to living a full […] The post *You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays...

He is starting a new podcast and I am perhaps the first episode?  There is video and text and audio.  Here is an excerpt: Lindsey: Did they recognize early on that you were different and that they had a job to do to push you, or no? Cowen: Well, my father thought I was weird, so he […] The post My podcast with Brink Lindsey appeared...

So pleased to see my paper out in the BU Law Review! This paper surveys 50+ years of randomized control trials in criminal justice and shows that almost no interventions have lasting benefit — and the ones that do don't replicate in other settings. 1/ https://t.co/xIvIcCseGL pic.twitter.com/Duj4ybbbS6 — Megan Stevenson (@MeganTStevenson) January 2, 2024 The post Dept. of Uh-Oh appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION....

1. Jeffrey Paller 19 books to read on Africa. 2. Making the micropipette. 3. Miss America supports nuclear power. 4. “We found that living standards generally predicted and temporally preceded variations of romantic love in the Early Modern Period.” 5. Why is the Dominican Republican incumbent popular? 6. Very good Douthat column on higher education […] The post Thursday assorted links appeared first on...

Yes, I will be doing another Conversation with him.  Here is my previous Conversation with him, almost eight years ago.  As many of you will know, Jonathan has a new book coming out, namely The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.  But there is much more […] The post What should I ask Jonathan Haidt?...

In the past five years, the number of applications to connect to the electricity grid — many of them for solar energy generation and storage — has increased tenfold, with waits of up to 15 years. The underinvestment is restricting the flow of cheap energy from Scottish wind farms to population centers in England and adding to […] The post Why Britain’s economy is failing appeared...

These are illustrative numbers, not definitive estimates: Let’s make some base-case assumptions. The most important assumptions are: A 50 year old male who doesn’t exercise can expect to live to age 80 That same male who puts in 8 hours per week of exercise can expect to live to age 88. We will measure investment […] The post The rate of return on exercise...

The subtitle is How German-Speaking Scientists and Engineers Invented the Modern World, And What We Can Learn from Them .  This is a 5501 (!) pp. work, published on-line.  I haven’t read it yet.  By Todd H. Rider.  It’s probably good. The post *Forgotten Creators* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.         CommentsIn reply to murmur. What is your ethnic background? Let the ... by...

1. The logic of American vs. Japanese ghost stories. 2. Paul Krugman on the economics of slavery (NYT). 3. The Year in Interintellect. 4. Casey Handmer on Elon Musk. 5. Nils Karlson open-access book on classical liberalism vs. populism.  The book is very much on the mark and I was happy to blurb it. 6. […] The post Wednesday assorted links appeared first on...

If you want to understand NFTs and where they are going, The Everything Token by web entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski and Harvard Business school professor Scott Duke Kominers is by far the best guide. Kaczynski and Kominers emphasize that NFTs are more than deeds to digital art they are an ideal way to create communities. Community […] The post The Everything Token appeared first on...

That is the new book by Blake Butler, a memoir.  It is no spoiler to tell you that his wife Molly takes her own life at a young age.  I don’t know of any better argument for social conservatism than this book.  And perhaps suicide should be regarded as a sin, not something to get […] The post *Molly* appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION....