Saturday, June 21, 2025

The job description of intimacy coordinator (for sex scenes in films and plays)

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  There's a new profession being practiced, akin to what stunt coordinators have long done in films, to try to keep the actors and stunt...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Jewish cemetery and Pinkas synagogue in Prague

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 During our visit to Prague in May we visited the Old Jewish Cemetery , crowded with the dead from the historic Jewish Ghetto.   We also ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Hate crimes in the United States

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 The data graphic on hate crimes below is from the NYT editorial (and dates back to 2023). Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many Peopl...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Roland Fryer on the Economics of Slavery (in the WSJ)

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  The Economics of Slavery Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means ,  by Roland...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

8th Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop (IMSW), June 16 – June 18

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 Markets are such an important way in which humans interact that I'm always cheered to note that economists aren't alone in studying...

Informed consent and mortal sin, in the case of Medical Aid in Dying

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 Studying morally contested transactions doesn't always suggest paths by which consensus might be reached. It often suggests that confli...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Axel Ockenfels to head new Adenauer School of Government in Cologne

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 Here's the press release: University of Cologne founds Adenauer School of Government  "On 5 June 2025, the University of Cologne a...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

European workshop on Market Design, June 16-17

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 The workshop takes place at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research  L7, 168161 Mannheim European Workshop on Market Design #5...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Worrying about fascism like it's 1925--an open letter

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 The organization https://stopreturnfascism.org / has published an open letter (in multiple languages) expressing concern, one hundred years...
Friday, June 13, 2025

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's centennial party is cancelled

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The Hebrew University in Jerusalem is older than the state of Israel, and is and has been a steady anchor in difficult times.  It was schedu...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Interdisciplinary science: a heated dispute

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 Here's an article in the latest PNAS, about issues in evolution that I know nothing about, but I was struck by how clearly the author m...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Evangelical resolution on the 21st Century

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 The NYT has the story: Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was moti...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

New York State senate passes medical aid in dying bill

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 Yesterday the NY State Senate took the next step in making medical aid in dying legal in NY.  Now the bill goes to the governor... The NYT ...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Medical aid in dying bill advances (controversially) in New York State

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 A bill to legalize Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) in New York state has passed the Assembly and been referred to the Senate (after which it wo...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Ransomware evolving

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  MedCity News reports on the evolving cat and mouse game between ransomware criminals and health care organizations. The Changing Landscape...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

College athletes are now professionals

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 For a long time the sports world tried to make a sharp distinction between amateur and professional athletes, especially in the Olympics an...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Disturbing NYT report about an Organ Procurement Organization in Kentucky

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 Deceased donation of organs mostly occurs after potential donors suffer brain death, which, roughly speaking, means the loss of all organiz...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Yale celebrates Larry Samuelson

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  Economist Larry Samuelson on Pioneering Game Theory Research at Cowles .  Yale professor Larry Samuelson's research was pivotal in the...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

INFORMS Market Design Impact Award: call for nominations

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 Here's the call for nominations for a new prize to recognize practical market design.  Call for Submissions: Market Design Impact Award...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The latest coffee science (and willing suspension of correlation not being causation skepticism)

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 The NYT has the good news, for those of us who appreciate getting certain parts of our science from newspapers: That Cup of Coffee May Have...