Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Search engines as modern oracles, by Andrei Z. Broder & Preston McAfee

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 Among the costs of visiting Mt. Parnassus to consult the Oracle at Delphi was that it was difficult to interpret the answers received, part...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Return to the Econ by Joshua Gans

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  Joshua Gans indulges his inner anthropologist: Return to the Econ   by Joshua S. Gans,  August 20, 2023 Abstract: This paper revisits the ...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Kidney disease in war-torn Sudan

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 The Lancet brings us this news from Sudan. Kidney failure in Sudan: thousands of lives at risk by Hatim A Hassan, Mohamed Hany Hafez, Vale...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

Calligraphy fan: OR and Game Theory

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  Haibo Wang visited and brought me a fan, with calligraphy from his dad in Chinese characters. Alex Chan  translates: "What is written...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Kidney exchange between Portugal and Italy

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  Italy-Portugal cross transplants. that click that saved two "Thanks to a complex work of intervention planning and logistics, managed...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

Organ transplants between Hong Kong and mainland China: the promise and the politics

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 This is a followup post to an earlier post #  about the first cross border transplant in China between the mainland and Hong Kong. That...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Argentine presidential politics, and monetary markets for kidneys

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  The Financial Times reports on the surprising primary election performance of a far right candidate, Javier Milei. Argentina radical right...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Affirmative action in Brazilian universities: guest post by Inácio Bó

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 Recent legislation in Brazil addresses university admissions with affirmative action that targets multiple characteristics that individuals...
Monday, August 14, 2023

The high out-of-pocket cost of donating a kidney. By Martha Gershun

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  Martha Gershun continues to write eloquently about the obstacles to kidney donation.   Here she is in Stat: The high out-of-pocket cost of...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

Fall workshops in Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design

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 Here's an update on the three scheduled workshops connected to the SLMath (formerly MSRI) semester focus on market and mechanism design...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Repugnance watch: British satire considers cellular agriculture in human meat

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In The Conversation: The British Miracle Meat: how banning repugnant choices obscures the real issue of poverty   by Renaud Foucart " A...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Freezing (and then carefully warming) donor organs breaks the organ transplant time barrier (for rats, for the time being)

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  Here's a note in Nature Reviews Nephrology pointing out the longer term promise of the recent successful freezing, thawing, and transp...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Ned Brooks on Coalition to Modify NOTA

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Ned Brooks (about whom I've often blogged) is putting his eloquence and organizational skills to the task of increasing organ donation ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

SITE 2023 Session 5: Experimental Economics Thu, Aug 10 - Fri, Aug 11 2023

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  SITE 2023 Session 5: Experimental Economics   Thu, Aug 10 2023, 9:00am - Fri, Aug 11 2023, 5:00pm PDT John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Buildin...