Friday, July 25, 2025

Tour de France competitions: conditioning, bikes, and drugs?

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 Agence France Presse (AFP) reports on the bike race, and speculates on the historical competition between drug takers and drug testers. Pog...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

INFORMS celebrates Yash Kanoria

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Last month, INFORMS ' Division of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management awarded Yash Kanoria   the 2025  MSOM Young Scholar...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

The End Kidney Deaths Act (JAMA finally publishes a letter of reply)

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  In March, JAMA publishing a rather unconvincing but passionate attack on a modest proposal to incentivize non-directed kidney donors. The ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The science and politics of vaping in the U.S

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 The Washington Post has the story: FDA lets Juul market vapes in the U.S. three years after trying to ban them Federal regulators first ann...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Helping meth users quit, by paying them

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 The NYT has the story: Upended by Meth, Some Communities Are Paying Users to Quit Unlike with opioids, there is no medication to suppress c...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Organ donation after circulatory death: the NYT recounts some disturbing cases

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 The NYT has a disturbing story this morning about organ donation after circulatory death. These are cases in which a decision has been made...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Aging in bursts

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It turns out we don't just fade away...  New Scientist has the story: Rapid bursts of ageing are causing a total rethink of how we grow ...
Friday, July 18, 2025

World religions, by population

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 The Pew research center has been keeping an eye on religious affiliations around the world. More than half of us are Christians or Muslims....
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Open Letter from NAS Members to U.S. Senators and Representatives urging support for science

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In a victory of optimism over experience, I continue to sign a small fraction of the open letters that come my way.  Also, it's good t...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Incinerating food aid

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 Here's a story from The Atlantic about a decision that captures the Trump administration's policies towards food aid, carbon emissi...
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...