Saturday, December 6, 2025

Binding early decision in college admissions: "Go early, or go somewhere else"

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 There was a time when only football coaches and presidents had news-making salaries at colleges and universities.  Now top admissions offic...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Ludwig Amadeus Minelli (5 December 1932 – 29 November 2025), leader of Dignitas assisted suicide organization

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 The Washington Post has the story Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92.  Dignitas, which Mr. Mine...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Scientists and policy makers with feet of clay

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  A recent article in The Lancet talks about the checkered career of the late James Watson (1928-2025), who participated in great science (t...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

AEA Survey of hiring plans of U.S. Economics Departments (and an unrelated unprecedented AEA announcement about Larry Summers)

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 Here's the latest survey of the job market for new PhD economists: To: Members of the American Economic Association From: AEA Committee...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Interview with Joel Mokyr: "I'm Not Sure Democracy Will Survive"

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 Joel Mokyr, the Dutch-Israeli-American 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his work on the history of technology, is interviewed in Haaret...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Lucky By Design: book talk by Judd Kessler tomorrow

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  Mark your calendar for Tuesday, December 2, from  3:30–5 PM : Wharton Professor Judd Kessler will be visiting Stanford to deliver a talk...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Women in Thoracic Surgery,

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 The NYT reports on the second annual meeting of Women in Thoracic Surgery, a group for the less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons ...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Gift to deceased donor family (generous ex-post, but illegal ex-ante)

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 What is generous ex-post but illegal ex-ante? Cleveland.com has the story:  Bernie Kosar gives large check to donor’s family days after lif...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Facing up to face transplants: Pioneering transplants and their pioneering patients

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The history of transplantation involves not only pioneering surgeons, but also pioneering patients.  Face transplants are yet another comple...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Congestion and signaling in the job market, as the ratio of applications to positions continues to rise

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 Aki Ito, at Business Insider, writes about how the number of job applications per position is growing, and how there's some exploratory...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Modern warfare: going into battle with laptops

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 Defense One has the story How the Army’s most tech-forward units are practicing for war A two-week exercise simulated island battles—and pu...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The abrupt demise of the AMA Journal of Ethics

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Medical ethics is full of twists and turns, so it is perhaps fitting that the American Medical Association killed its Journal of Ethics, wit...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Illicit organ trade, in Nigeria and elsewhere

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 Here's an article about organ (kidney) trafficking, by a Nigerian physician, which has a good account of the background of the Nigerian...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Magic staircase

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 Staircase technology is moving fast:      
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Philippe Aghion interview in the Financial Times

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The FT has lunch with Philippe Aghion:   Economist Philippe Aghion: ‘Macron’s legacy will be better than people think’ France’s new Nobel la...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Viewpoint diversity on swastikas and vaccines: one close call and one further descent

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The canary was revived after being found gasping for breath in the coal mine... The Washington Post reports this morning: In reversal , Coas...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Organ procurement centers (OPOs) are responding to changes in their performance evaluations (by Bae, Sweat, Melcher and Ashlagi in JAMA Surgery)

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 Here Bae H, Sweat KR, Melcher ML, Ashlagi I. Organ Procurement Following the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Performance Evaluat...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

MATCH-UP 2026, Paris 1-3 July, 2026, call for papers

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  MATCH-UP 2026 8th International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences NYU Paris, Paris, France 1-3 July, 2026 MATCH-UP is   a series of i...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Artificial intelligence and the future of Wikipedia

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 Jimmy Wales, interviewed in the Guardian: ‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the las...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Physicians are now more likely employed than in private practice, and AMA membership has correspondingly declined

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  Medpage Today has the story: Medical Societies Are Facing an Existential Crisis — It's time to adapt to the employed physician era by ...