Friday, September 13, 2024

Guns for everyone, from 3-D printers

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 Unregulated guns made on 3-D printers are now becoming more available.   The NYT has the story: He’s Known as ‘Ivan the Troll.’ His 3D-Prin...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Should you get a Ph.D.?

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 One of the emails I answered yesterday asked  "As I get closer to graduation, I’m really curious about how people balance academic res...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

First kidney exchange in Kuwait

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  The Arab Times has the story: Breakthrough in organ transplant: Kuwait conducts first family kidney exchange ########## The phrase "f...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Kidney exchange chains between Israel and Cyprus

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 Israel Hayom has the story. (Itai Ashalgi's software gets a shout-out): Unprecedented Israel-Cyprus kidney exchange saves 8 lives.  Cro...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Anticipating kidney exchange in Germany in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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   Here's an op-ed in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, celebrating the anticipated beginning of kidney exchange in Germany. Der Volks...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Simulating kidney exchange policies in Germany

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 Here are a set of simulations designed to help Germany establish a national (rather than a fragmented) kidney exchange system. Itai Ashlagi...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Market design at Iowa State: course invites remote access

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  Bertan Turhan writes to tell me about the market design course he is offering this semester, to which he invites remote participation (fo...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Stanford celebrates Susan Athey

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  This  from Stanford Report: What motivates Susan Athey . The economist weighs in on incremental innovation, data-driven impact, and how ec...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Social Choice & Fair Division: Theory & Applications, at the University of Tehran this weekend

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 Mehdi Feizi (مهدی فیضی) writes to alert me to the upcoming conference, at the University of Tehran, on Social Choice & Fair Division: T...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Incentives matter for getting participation in clinical trials by low income households

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  Here's a study that casts some light (via a randomized experiment) on the importance of incentives to get representative participation...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

It's illegal to sell cicada infused liquor in Illinois

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 Alcohol and insects don't mix in Illinois.   The Chicago Sun Times has the story: Suburban brewery fined for selling cicada-infused Mal...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Oregon ends decriminalization of drugs, continues to experiment

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  Here's the story in the Washington Post Hard drugs illegal again in Oregon as first-in-nation experiment ends "Sunday marks the e...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The first four patients who received transplants of organs from genetically modified pigs

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 NBC reports on the four patients who have so far received organ transplants from genetically modified pigs. Their loved ones died after rec...
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Compensating plasma donors, or buying plasma from the U.S.? Europe clutches its pearls (The Economist)

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 The Economist summarizes the plasma situation well. The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical. Reliance on America grows, as othe...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Automated bidding in auctions

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 Part of the future of market design (as artificial intelligence evolves from large language models to something more like general AI) will ...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Optimism and pessimism on psychedelic drugs as medicine

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 "Psychedelics" may prove to be a broad church, with psilocybin and LSD quite different from MDMA, etc., but here are two articles...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient In (Unremunerated) Organs And Blood, by Krawiec and Roth

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 Requiring national self sufficiency in blood and plasma supplies is particularly hard on low and middle income countries, as is limiting th...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need.

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  The NYT has the story: read it and weep... Why Mpox Vaccines Aren’t Flowing to Africans in Desperate Need. Drugmakers have supplies ready...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Are Swedish gangs becoming the hitmen of Scandanavia?

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 We're accustomed to drug violence among gangs even in wealthy countries, but here's a story from The Times (of London) suggesting t...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Travel for medical aid in dying

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  CBS has the story: Why Americans are traveling to Vermont and Oregon to die ""Dying with medical assistance wasn't an option...