Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Cellular agriculture points the way to removing killing from the food chain

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Here's a story from the Washington Post about growing fish-flesh and meat from cells in a lab. The story emphasizes sustainability, but ...
Monday, July 14, 2025

International trade in prison cells: Sweden and Estonia

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 The Guardian has the story: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners by Miranda Bryant "Sw...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

The repugnance of slavery (1847)--an open letter

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  The civil war was preceded by a schism among Northern and Southern Baptists over the institution of slavery.  The recent rediscovery of a...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Banks fire back at buyout firms in war for (young) talent

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 Investment banks build defenses against private equity firms hiring their analysts covertly, years in advance. Here's the story from th...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Market design search at WU Vienna's new Department of Business Analytics and Decision Science

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 Ben Greiner writes to remind me that "Vienna is a beautiful place to live and work" and that there is a 27 July deadline for the...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Job search for Professor of Market Design: U. Mannheim and ZEW--Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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Professor Achim Wambac h writes with news of a job opening in market design: Professor of Economics, Market Design (W3) Department of Econo...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Is gambling exhibiting a sinister interest in sports?

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 Is a single missed pitch in a baseball game a sign of gambling's sinister interest in discrete events in sports contests?  It might be,...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Doping in the Tour de France: new dimensions

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 There was a time when only riders had to be tested for doping, but advances in electric motors and batteries mean that bikes too can be sus...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Prompt injection to avoid prompt rejection: hidden prompts for LLM's used to review academic papers

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 Just as dog whistles are high pitched so as to be only heard by dogs, some academic papers now have prompts for large language models invis...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Explaining economics can change the evaluation of policies, by Elias, Lacetera and Macis

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 Perhaps economists should get involved in the discussion of public policies during political campaigns... Is the Price Right? The Role of E...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Lawyerly characteristics of American law students

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 The Americans With Disabilities Act requires schools to make accommodations for students whose disabilities require extra time for completi...
Friday, July 4, 2025

Coffee and science at Stanford

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  Julio Elias is welcomed home by the Universidad del CEMA after a great visit to Stanford. Julio Elías, Director del MAE, fue Tinker Visiti...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Workshop in Memory of YingHua He, July 7-8

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 The Paris School of Economics, the Center for Economic and Statistical Research, and the Toulouse School of Economics are organizing a Work...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Mark Granovetter retires

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  Mark Granovetter 's retirement from the Stanford Sociology department was celebrated yesterday with a meal and many toasts.  Two pictu...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Universities under attack, in Israel and the U.S., by warfare and lawfare

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Both the U.S. and Israel have distinguished universities, some older than the country in which they sit. Both have universities that have re...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Dog walking (and driving with dogs) in Iran

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As we wait to see if the Israel-Iran cease fire will hold, we can hope that the new normal will become better than the old normal, in both I...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Harvard's finances (Endowment, expenses, revenue by school)

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 Harvard Magazine has a collection of stories related to Harvard's ongoing battle with the Trump administration:  Harvard in the Crossh...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Internet advertising: affiliate marketing scams, evolving

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 Ben Edelman announces a return to his roots, detecting advertising fraud on the internet. (Remember when malware would flash unwanted page...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Visa delays likely to disrupt American hospitals and foreign doctors beginning American residencies on July 1

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 Each year American hospitals seek to fill several thousand medical residencies in excess of the number of new American medical graduates.  ...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Evicting Science from D.C.: the NSF building and it's History Wall

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 Evidently the NSF is taking up too much government real estate, here's the story from (appropriately enough) Scientific American: Trump...