Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein (two great game theorists and veteran Israeli peace activists) worry about Gaza, in Haaretz

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Many of the world's great democracies are going through difficult, divisive times, with a majority or near-majority of citizens worrying...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Nicole Immorlica celebrated (and interviewed) in a Microsoft Resarch podcast

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 Here's a podcast with Nicole Immorlica, in which she talks about her research origins (including a course and a poem), what computer s...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Regulating nicotine is a cat and mouse game

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 Attempts to regulate (and tax) cigarettes and related nicotine-addicting products are a cat and mouse game. Many laws regulate "tobacc...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

KENNETH ARROW’S LAST THEOREM by Paul Milgrom

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  Here's a fitting tribute to Ken Arrow, who died in 2017, in the special issue of the Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design in H...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Blood transfusion for dogs and cats

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 Somewhat as in human donation around the world, blood donors for veterinary transfusions of cats and dogs are both volunteers and professio...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Another transplant of a pig kidney

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A very highly sensitized patient, even one with lots of priority on the deceased donor waiting  list (a prior donor) may not find a compatib...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

New rules for evaluating transplant centers

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 Historically, transplant centers ('hospitals') have been primarily evaluated on the one year graft survival on the transplants that...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Marriage markets among religious Jews

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 Here's a 2024 report: The Challenges of Singlehood among American Orthodox Jews Part II   by  Dr. Matt Williams, Dr. Michelle Shain, Dr...