Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Competition between legal and illegal cannabis in Canada

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Canadian cannabis competition: Canada's legal weed struggles to light up as smokers stick to black market Six months after legalisat...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Drone delivery of a kidney for transplant

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Here's the press release from the University of Maryland, Pioneering Breakthrough: University of Maryland's Schools of Medicine an...
Monday, April 29, 2019

Refugee resettlement in the U.S., by HIAS, using matching technology

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The Atlantic brings us up to date: How Technology Could Revolutionize Refugee Resettlement A software program called “Annie” uses machine...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Hayek at auction at Sothebys

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It closed last month, but you can still take a look at the outcome of Sotheby's sale called Friedrich von Hayek: His Nobel Prize and F...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Sniping in soft-close auctions (right before the time that triggers an extension)

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From Marketing Letters: Marketing Letters pp 1–13 |  Cite as Sniping in soft-close online auctions: empirical evidence from over...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Repugnant blood samples (for gender testing in pregnancy) in China

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The South China Morning Post has the story: blood samples for gender tests apparently are a leading indicator of abortion of female fetuses...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Should NYC school choice diversify school assignments to match applicant demographics?

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Some commentators are concerned that features closely correlated with race, for example, can be used in computerized algorithms that don...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Insurance, privacy, surveillance, algorithms, and repugnance

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The NY Times is on the case: Insurers Want to Know How Many Steps You Took Today The cutting edge of the insurance industry involves adj...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Ethical algoritms: a recent talk and a forthcoming book

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Increasingly, algorithms are decision makers. Here's a recent talk, and a book forthcoming in October, about what we might mean by eth...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Gun sales in America: both repugnant and protected transactions

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Two stories remind me of the special status of gun sales in the U.S., and the corresponding political divisions between those who would lik...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

"Rich meet beautiful" site prosecuted in Belgium

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The Guardian has the story: 'Sugar daddy' website owner charged with debauchery in Belgium Norwegian Sigurd Vedal’s site Ric...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Recent innovations in organ donation

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Here's a quick summary of novel (and sometimes controversial) ways to organize kidney exchange (global kidney exchange, and advanced do...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Foie gras off the menu (again) in California

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The SF Chronicle had the story (and I missed it until now...) California’s foie gras ban upheld, though chefs vow to fight on Jonathan K...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Dead pigs and live brain cells--with implications still to be understood

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Dramatic scientific announcements get press coverage before they are well (or at all) understood, but that can still be exciting.  Here...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

A wedding while expecting "twiblings"

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The NY Times has a very 21st century wedding announcement, of two husbands who both wanted to be fathers. Read it all here and feel proud t...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Glitch in NYC high school admissions this year

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An alert NYC parent points me to this account in the WSJ: Top New York City School Makes Big Admissions Error NYC Lab School had to rera...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Interview with Preston McAfee on market design in tech firms

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Econ focus, from the Richmond Fed, has an interview with Preston McAfee: Fourth Quarter 2018, INTERVIEW R. Preston McAfee Article by: D...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Marketplace Innovation Workshop at Stanford, June 4-5

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Here's the call for papers: The Fifth Marketplace Innovation Workshop will take place at Stanford University on June 4 (afternoon) ...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Nova Scotia moves towards presumed consent for organ donation

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The CBC is following the story: Nova Scotia's opt-out organ donation move sparks mixed reaction Bioethicist wonders whether rule woul...