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What I’ve been reading
1. Danielle Dreilinger, The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of...
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China fact of the day
Bureaucratic politics is a politics of privilege. By 1956, the wages of the highest-ranking party and...
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What should I ask Dana Gioia?
Dana is what I call one of the world’s information billionaires. For more specifics, here is...
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That was then, this is now, now it’s now again
To see how much the sanitary and medical revolutions have changed the risks of global interaction,...
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What I’ve been reading
1. Jan Golinski, Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820. One of the...
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*The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics*
That is the new book by Tim Harford, due out February 2. Here is the Amazon...
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What should I ask Sarah Parcak?
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her. Here is part of her Wikipedia entry:...
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What I’ve been reading
1. David M. Friedman, The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrell, and Their Daring Quest to...
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Amazon search is failing us
Maybe it is different for you, but when I search Amazon for “D.M. Knight, Science and...
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Dan Wang’s 2020 letter
Most of it was about China, but here was my favorite part: The key to reading...
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Jeff Holmes does a CWT with Tyler
Here is the summary: On this special year-in-review episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler...
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Most Popular MR Posts of the Year
Here is a selection of the most popular MR posts of 2020. COVID was a big...
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What I’ve been reading
1. Tim Lee, Jamie Lee, and Kevin Coldiron, The Rise of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences of...
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Markets in Everything–Zoom Books
Politico: When workplaces went remote and suddenly Zoom allowed co-workers new glimpses into one another’s homes,...
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That was then, this is now — Pakistan edition
Ayub Khan ended the political turmoil to become the country’s first military ruler in 1958. He...
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*Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition*
By Mark Lawrence Schrad. From the Amazon summary: This is the history of temperance and prohibition...
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What should I ask Patricia Fara?
I will be doing a Conversation with her, here is part of her Wikipedia page: Patricia...
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That was then, this is now
Many professors at universities routinely quizzed their students too, although not as commonly as faculty at...