Friday, March 11, 2016

Who Gets What and Why in Frankfurt, at the German National Library

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I'll be speaking about Who Gets What and Why in Frankfurt today at the German National Library: Einladung zur Veranstaltung mit Alv...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

NY Times report on incompatible kidney transplants

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The New York Times has an article about a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine which reports that an incompatible kidney, t...

Who Gets What and Why in Cologne: Wer kriegt was?

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Today I speak in Cologne... Nobel laureate Alvin E. Roth asks: Who Gets What – and Why? Are you one of those people who believe tha...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Who Gets What and Why at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), in Berlin.

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I'm in Berlin to speak about Who Gets What and Why... Wednesday, March 09, 2016, 07:00 pm Who Gets What and Why: The New Econom...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

James Hathaway: Plan for, rather than simply react to, refugee movements

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Mitu Gulati points me to this piece by James Hathaway: A global solution to a global refugee crisis JAMES C. HATHAWAY 29 February 2016 ...
Monday, March 7, 2016

First paired kidney exchange transplant done in Singapore

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Here's the story from the Straits Times, about a short non-directed donor chain:   First paired kidney exchange transplant done in Sing...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Kidney exchange: a European research initiative

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Here's an announcement of a European research initiative:  European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programmes
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Penn celebrates differential privacy (and an application to anti-terrorism surveillance)

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Briefly on Penn's front web page , here's the story. Balancing Privacy and Security in Network Analysis Something about the pict...

Unified enrolment in Oakland

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The NY Times has an article about controversies in Oakland public schools, including about the prospect of instituting a unified enrollment...
Friday, March 4, 2016

NYC High School Match Day

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If you are a NYC 8th grader, or have one in your family, this is a big day. Good luck! Chalkbeat has the story (with links to their earli...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Sri Lanka Destroys Illegal Elephant Tusks

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 The NY Times has the story:  Sri Lanka Destroys Illegal Elephant Tusks "A group of saffron-robed monks chanted as officials crus...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Signaling English language proficiency with video interviews

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Colleges are increasingly availing themselves of video and internet technology to assess language skills of foreign applicants: see e.g. th...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

First Uterus Transplant in the U.S., at the Cleveland Clinic

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Uterus transplants were pioneered in Sweden, where surrogacy is illegal . But there is also demand in the U.S. The NY Times has the story...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Update on the Gastroenterology match

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Dr Debbie Proctor at Yale, who was instrumental in re-starting the match for gastroenterology fellows, sends this update: "The GI ma...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

The market for jobs in international schools (elementary through high school)

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Two search firms seem to facilitate the market for teachers who want to work internationally: International Schools Services , and  Searc...
Saturday, February 27, 2016

Unraveling of the philosophy job market

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The American Philosophical Society has posted the following Statement on the Job Market Calendar The following statement was adopted by ...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

A Freakonomics listener was inspired to become a non-directed kidney donor by the podcast on kidney exchange

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In June, 2015, right around the time my book Who Gets What and Why was published, Steven Dubner and his team at Freakonomics published a p...
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