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 ...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

The Union of Concerned Scientists celebrates the NSF

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 The Union of Concerned Scientists reminds us of some of many things government support of science has contributed to: What Do Duolingo, The...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Judd Kessler: the most helpful advice I ever got (YouTube short video)

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 I was charmed by this very short video featuring Judd Kessler (and I'm very grateful to whoever gave him that advice):     https://yout...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Nikhil Agarwal Wins Infosys Prize 2025

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 From Inomics: Nikhil Agarwal (MIT) Wins Infosys Prize 2025 for Groundbreaking Work in Market Design   13 November 2025 ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Ethical considerations and global cooperaton in transplantation, Wednesday in Cairo

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It's Wednesday morning in Cairo, and here's today's conference  schedule , which will include discussion of (and voting on) glob...

Join the global call for change at DLE--Invitation to Cairo

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  After being invited to this week's  International Transplant Week in Egypt,  , I was invited to invite others.  (To hear my very brie...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Are transplants too scarce, or not scarce enough? A surprising debate about India

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 India, now the most populous country in the world, does the third highest number of kidney transplants in the world (although their rate of...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Economics and CS (AI+ML) in Ithaca in June: call for papers

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 Here's the announcement and call for papers from the Econometric Society 2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting June 16 - 17, 2026 Ithac...
Saturday, November 8, 2025

Game theory in Brazil, July 26-Aug2: Call for papers

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 Marilda Sotomayor forwards the following call for papers: Game Theory scholar.  It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the ...
Friday, November 7, 2025

International Transplant Week in Egypt, 2025

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 I'm preparing to spend next week in Cairo at the Donate Life Egypt 2025 International Transplant Week , where I'll give a talk on T...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

School choice and performance gaps in England: a report by Burgess, Cantillon, Greaves and Cavallo

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 Estelle Cantillon writes to tell me about her new report with Simon Burgess , Ellen Greaves , and  Mariagrazia Cavallo   on changing the...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Xenotransplants go to (clinical) trial

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  Yesterday's post was about a man who received a pig kidney as an exceptional "compassionate use" case. But now some formal ...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Xenotransplant of a pig kidney lasted nine months before failing (a new record)

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 No xenotransplant has lasted a year yet, but that's a target that now seems to be within reach for kidneys. (Kidneys are a more forgivi...
Monday, November 3, 2025

David Gale (1921-2008) remembered, with a (belated) 100th birthday volume

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 David Gale (1921-2008) was honored recently with the publication of a volume commissioned at the time of his 100th birthday.  The editors r...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Surrogacy, and escrow accounts

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  Surrogacy contracts involve a long term relationship, focused on a nine month pregnancy.  So commercial surrogacy depends on secure financ...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

European Economic Review Summer School in Experimental and Behavioral Economics, June 1-4, 2026.

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    It's never too late to learn about experiments: 3rd   European Economic Review Summer School  in Experimental and Behavioral Economi...

Experimental economics at the University of Pittsburgh

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 I recently had the opportunity to visit my old haunts at the University of Pittsburgh, and took part in a reopening and re-dedication of th...