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A brief gallivant about the marketplace of ideas.

Month: February, 2022

26 February 2022

Read : 2022-02-26

Articles for reading:

  1. “Mr. Putin launches a sequel to the Cold War” by The Editorial Board (The NY Times, 2022-02-24).
  2. “Avi Loeb: Aliens, black holes, and the mystery of the Oumuamua” by Lex Fridman (YouTube, 2021-01-13). 2h44m video.
  3. “Understanding the Fed’s hawkish pivot” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-19).
  4. “The C.D.C. isn’t publishing large portions of the covid data it collects” by Apoorva Mandavilli (The NY Times, 2022-02-20).
    For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States and broken it down by age, race and vaccination status. But it has not made most of the information public.
  5. “Cryptographers achieve perfect secrecy with imperfect devices” by Mordechai Rorvig (Quanta Magazine, 2022-02-25).

Articles on Ukraine:

  1. “Russian incursion into Ukraine ‘very likely’, says John B. Bellinger III ’86” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2022-02-10).
  2. “Russian buildup near Ukraine features potent weapons systems, well-trained troops” by Michael R. Gordon, Max Rust (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
  3. “Biden speaks to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky as prospect of conflict looms” by Alex Leary, Laurence Norman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
  4. “Would a war in Ukraine lead to a wider cyber-conflict?” (The Economist, 2022-02-23).
  5. “A moment of clarity” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-24). Subtitle: “The Russian invasion of Ukraine should wake us up.”
  6. “Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).
  7. “How invasion may hit U.S., global economies” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).
  8. “What happens next in Ukraine?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).

Articles for reference:

  1. “You’ve done self care. You’ve languished. Now try this.” by Brad Stulberg (The NY Times, 2022-02-13).
  2. “Can democrats see what’s coming?” by Ezra Klein (The NY Times, 2022-02-12).
  3. “What would happen if financial markets crashed?” (The Economist, 2022-02-12).
  4. “Cathie Wood’s ARK stays the course, betting big on innovation” by Michael Wursthorn (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-13).
  5. “Are we all narcissists?” by Jackie Mansky (Zócalo, 2022-02-11).
  6. “The sects that rejected 19th-century sex” by Stewart Davenport (Zócalo, 2022-02-14).
  7. “A poem that would not let me go” by Drea Brown (Zócalo, 2020-05-31).
  8. “High-flying inflation—are central banks still in control?” (The Economist, 2022-02-16). 38m podcast.
  9. “Machine learning becomes a mathematical collaborator” by Kelsey Houston-Edwards (Quanta Magazine, 2022-02-15).
  10. “What happens when you do—or don’t—identify with your achievement” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2022-02).
  11. “The rejection of Bidenomics” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-19).
  12. “The professor who beat roulette” by Zachary Crockett (The Hustle, 2019-05-11).
  13. “Stock market got you worried? Write a D-Day note” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-18).
  14. “UC Berkeley and American stagnation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-21).
  15. “Interview: Emi Nakamura, macroeconomist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-21).
  16. “How to be perfect” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-18). A short interview with Michael Schur, creator of the TV comedy “The good place”.
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12 February 2022

Read : 2022-02-12

Articles for reading:

  1. “Inflation debate between Paul R. Krugman and Lawrence H. Summers” by Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance (YouTube, 2022-01-21). 1h10m video.
  2. “A conversation with Lawrence H. Summers and Paul Krugman” by Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance (YouTube, 2021-02-12). 1h15m video.

Articles for reference:

  1. “Why you (probably) won’t finish reading this story” by Sean Illing (Vox, 2022-02-08). 1h08m podcast: Discussion with Johann Hari about ideas in his book “Stolen focus”. Discussion excerpts collected into article.
  2. “What’s going on with wages?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-03).
  3. “Omicron and the labor market” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-05). An insightful analysis and discussion of the January 2022 jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  4. “Inflation and the supply chain crisis” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-02-12).
  5. “The U.S. is failing to compete effectively with China” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-08). Full article access for subscribers only.
  6. “Does China think long-term while America thinks short-term?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-10).
  7. “Waning 2-dose and 3-dose effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against covid-19…” by Jill M. Ferdinands et al. (CDC : Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2022-02-11).

Article on BibTeX (LaTeX) with helpful examples:

  1. “BibTeX style examples” (Verbosus, ????).
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5 February 2022

Read : 2022-02-05

Articles for reading:

  1. “Sara Hall shares 7 keys to her longevity of excellence” by Brian Metzler (Women’s Running, 2022-01-20).
  2. “The two things to do when the stock market gets crazy” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-01-28).
  3. “Let the wild rumpus begin” by Jeremy Grantham (GMO : Jeremy Grantham Viewpoints, 2022-01-20).
  4. “Bad thinkers” by Quassim Cassam (Aeon, 2015-03-13).

Articles for reference:

  1. “The people deciding to ditch their smarthphones” by Suzanne Bearne (BBC News, 2022-01-23).
  2. “The Fed is playing with fire” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2022-01-24).
  3. “The right way to clean your tempered glass screen protector” (Red Zombie, 2018-07-23).
  4. “Why the NFT market will collapse” by Patrick Reinmoeller, Karl Schmedders (Project Syndicate, 2022-01-28).
  5. “Inflation will hurt both stocks and bonds” by Nouriel Roubini (Project Syndicate, 2022-01-26).
  6. “The gamification of finance” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas, 2022-01-29).
  7. “This person says he solved the most controversial problem in math” by Caroline Delbert (Popular Mechanics, 2020-04-06).
  8. “Teachers are quitting, and companies are hot to hire them” by Kathryn Dill (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-02).
  9. “Why teachers are dropping out of the profession” (The Wall Street Journal : What’s News, 2022-01-31).
  10. “Inflation is up, and Americans are mad. But it’s not a simple story.” by David Leonhardt (The NY Times : The Morning, 2022-02-01).
  11. “You can get crypto right and still play it wrong” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-02-04).
  12. “What we can learn from how the 1918 pandemic ended” by John M. Barry (The NY Times, 2022-01-31).
  13. “Tiger, tiger, burning bright” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal : The Intelligent Investor, 2022-02-01).
  14. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (Wired : Plaintext, 2022-02-04). On covid, Joe Rogan, and Spotify.
  15. “North Korea hacked him. So he took down its internet” by Andy Greenberg (WIRED, 2022-02-02).
  16. “Vices of the mind: Fake news, conspiracy theories, bullshit etc…” by Richard Marshall (3:16 am, ????).
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