Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Withdrawals from deceased donor registries

›
The NYT is standing by its recent stories on deceased organ donation. In the meantime  Newsweek has this story about people who have had sec...
Friday, May 2, 2025

How the 1930's looked in 1930, in Haaretz---"Misjudgment of the Nazis"

›
 The future is the hardest thing to predict. Here's a recent story in Haaretz, looking back at their reporting from Germany in 1930 (and...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Headlines that could have been dated April 1

›
 This year there's one headline that stands out from all the others: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. ...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

The ethics of field experiments in Economics, in the Financial Times

›
  The Financial Times has a column about the recent twitter (X) discussion concerning our paper  Social Media and Job Market Success: A Fiel...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Snowden and state surveillance: the view from The Guardian, ten years later

›
 Here's a look back at the Snowden affair (publication of documents about government surveillance) by the then editor in chief of the Gu...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Headlines that could have appeared on April 1

›
 Grim news largely crowded out funny news this past 12 months, but not completely (and some grim news is also funny). National Park Service ...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Radical content on YouTube, in PNAS

›
 Here's a paper in PNAS which finds that YouTube viewing of politically radical content reflects viewers' other web behavior, rather...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Headlines that could have appeared April 1

›
  You can't make these things up: Murderer who tackled London Bridge attacker with narwhal tusk pardoned Wild Mountain Thyme trailer bla...
Monday, May 25, 2020

India NDTV interview on coronavirus, convalescent plasma, etc. (5 minute interview by Dr. Prannoy Roy)

›
My 5 minutes come at 1:12, but if I've embedded this right the video should begin from there when you start it...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Headlines that could be dated April 1

›
Something was in the air this year: many headlines in serious outlets struck me as appropriate for April Fools Day. Non-political ones co...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Organ and tissue procurement: back and forth between LA Times and OneLegacy

›
Even in the era of social media, it remains difficult to conduct an argument with someone who buys ink by the truckload. The LA Times ran...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Headlines that could be dated April 1

›
Green-haired turtle that breathes through its genitals added to endangered list With its punky green mohican the striking Mary river turtl...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

School choice in Washington D.C., by Thomas Toch in the Washington Post magazine

›
In the Washington Post magazine, Thomas Toch writes about the accomplishments and limitations of the school choice system in Washington D....
Sunday, March 10, 2019

First-person account of a four-way kidney exchange in Houston, in the WSJ

›
Here's a moving first-person account by journalist Yogita Patel in the Wall Street Journal, about her decision to donate a kidney to he...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Kidney exchange chains and altruistic kidney donation on PBS newshour

›
PBS economics correspondent Paul Solman interviews non-directed kidney donors, and kidney exchange patients, and me, in yesterday's PBS...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Headlines that could have been dated April 1

›
A woman tried to board a plane with her emotional-support peacock. United wouldn't let it fly. Hundreds of Canadian doctors demand l...
Friday, March 2, 2018

The Economist discusses repugnant transactions

›
It's good to see repugnant transactions and forbidden markets making it into the (semi-)popular press.  Here's an article from The ...
2 comments:
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Talking to nephrologists about kidney exchange

›
Most conversations about kidney exchange (aka kidney paired donation, kpd) are with transplant professionals. But kidney patients start out...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Headlines that could have run on April 1

›
What was he thinking? Plane passenger stopped at Stansted with iPhone case shaped like a gun *********** Pretender to France...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Headlines that could have been published on April 1

›
You can't make this stuff up... College Will No Longer Ask Students to Examine One Another's Vaginas  Woman discovers ...