Thursday, October 9, 2025

Pig liver to human transplant: in China: a short story that may get longer...

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 Here's a forthcoming article in the Journal of Hepatology. Pioneering transplantation often provides tragic short stories of first atte...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

New Fellows of the Econometric Society

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 The Econometric Society has announced the results of the 2025 election of new Fellows . Congratulations to all of them. It's a great l...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Online dating in the US--is it past peak?

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 Here's a 2022 survey I just came across from Pew Research. It caught my eye because it reports a much lower percentage of life partners...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Guido Imbens reflects on "What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?

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  What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize?  "Stanford physical chemist W.E. Moerner, who received the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and St...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Grace Guan defends her dissertation at Stanford

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 Grace Guan defended her Ph.D. dissertation this past Friday. Welcome to the club, Grace.       Here's my earlier post about one of the...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

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Iconoclastic scientists not only do novel science, but they do science in novel ways. Jane Goodall also communicated to a broad audience, an...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Race to the bottom: NLDAC and NY State both aim to be payers of last resort for reimbursing kidney donors

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A tale of bureaucracy, in two acts  1.  NLDAC, the federally funded National Living Donor Assistance Center , was for a long time the only ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Trading cycles for board games

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 Trading cycles, often without the use of money, crop up here and there.  Here's an instance that was recently pointed out to me on Blue...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

In-game sports betting is something different

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 The NYT has the story: The Seductive, and Risky, Power of Live Sports Betting In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Repugnance and consequence-insensitivity (in connection to opposition to genetically-engineered food)

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 There is a well developed literature on repugnance connected to food, and here is a recent, interesting example that focuses on the relatio...