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6 June 2024

Read : 2024-06-06

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “NYC Ballet’s Mira Nadon on George Balanchine’s Rubies: Anatomy of a dance” by nycballet (YouTube, 2023-09-06).
  2. “Why dancers love performing Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’” by Royal Opera House (YouTube, 2017-04-12).

Books

  1. “Imposing order on grief” by Iona Italia (Quillette, 2024-05-22). A review of Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.

Business and investing

  1. “Should you buy expensive stocks?” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
  2. “Bit Tech companies unplug stock market from reality” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
  3. “How to write the perfect CV” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
  4. “When to sell your stocks” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
  5. “AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says” by Carolyn Crist (CIO Dive, 2024-05-24).
  6. “ISC2 reveals global ISC2 certification salaries” (ISC2, 2024-05-07). Note that regional aggregation masks within-region differences in cost of living.
  7. “Meme stocks are a thing—again” by Hannah Miao, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-05).

Cybersecurity

  1. “CVE exploits, stolen credentials fueled ransomware surge in 2023” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-06-04).
  2. “China is ‘prepositioning’ for future cyberattacks—and the new NSA chief is worried” by Niharika Mandhana, Gordon Fairclough (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
  3. “‘She hooked me’: How an online scam cost a senior citizen his life’s savings” by Felix Solomon (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
  4. “Detecting and preventing unauthorized user access” by Brad Jones (Snowflake, 2024-06-02).
  5. “NIST has a plan to clear the vulnerability analysis backlog” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-31). That plan is: Hire a government contractor.
  6. “Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-05-30).
  7. “Critical CVEs are going under-analyzed as NIST falls behind” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-28).
  8. “Hackers created rogue VMs to evade detection in recent MITRE cyber attack” by Newsroom (The Hacker News, 2024-05-24).
  9. “CVE exploitation nearly tripled in 2023, Verizon finds” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-01).

Economics

  1. “ADP national employment report—May 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-06-05).
  2. “Why China’s overcapacity problem is about to get even worse, in seven charts” by Nathaniel Taplin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
  3. “Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?” (The Economist, 2024-06-04).
  4. “Job openings and labor turnover—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-04).
  5. “Personal income and outlays, April 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-05-31).

Education

  1. “Google invests $15M to train new cyber pros” by Sam Sabin (Axios, 2024-06-04).
  2. “Next up for House renewal: Eliot” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-30).
  3. “Deep reading will save your soul” by William Deresiewicz (Persuasion, 2024-05-29).
  4. “When should Harvard speak out?” by Jessica McCann (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-28). An interview with Alison Simmons and Noah Feldman of the Harvard Institutional Voice Working Group.
  5. “Institutional voice” by Alan M. Garber et al. (Harvard : Office of the President, 2024-05-28).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “Tom Cech: RNA takes center stage” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-06-05). 49m audio recording with transcript; link to video recording.
  2. “Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points” by Alina Chan (The New York Times, 2024-06-03).
  3. “Long covid at 3 years” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-30).
  4. “Venki Ramakrishnan: The new science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-28). 50 m audio recording with transcript.

Law

  1. “The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of free speech” by Nadine Strossen (Persuasion, 2024-06-04).

Politics : BGP

  1. “FCC vote on tap for rules to secure fundamental component of the internet” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-06-04).
  2. “FCC wants rules for ‘most important part of the internet you’ve probably never heard of’” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-04-24).

Politics : Computer chips

  1. “Asia’s chip giants hustle to maintain their edge over the U.S.” by Jiyoung Sohn, Yang Jie (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
  2. “The goal for China’s chip giant: Cut out the U.S.” by Yoko Kubota (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
  3. “The U.S. gave chip makers billions. Now comes the hard part.” by Asa Fitch (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
  4. “The global chips battle, in charts” by Nate Rattner, Jiyoung Sohn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).

Politics : India

  1. “The morning” by Alex Travelli (The New York Times, 2024-06-06). Subtitled, “Modi’s choices”.
  2. “A triumph for Indian democracy” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
  3. “India’s surprising election results a ‘watershed moment’” by Daniel Harsha (Harvard Kennedy School : Ash Center, 2024-06-04). Q&A with Professor Gautam Nair.

Politics : Mexico

  1. “Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
  2. “Mexico’s new president is an enigma” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-06-03).

Politics : Trump’s NY trial

  1. “William Galston on 2024 and Trump’s conviction” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-06-01). 1h29m audio recording with transcript.
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times 2024-05-31). Subtitled, “We’re covering Trump’s conviction…”.
  3. “Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts in New York hush-money case” by Corinne Ramey, James Fanelli (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
  4. “A guilty verdict for Trump and its consequences for the country” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-30).

Politics : Other

  1. “Why no one will save Sudan” by Cameron Hudson (Persuasion, 2024-06-05).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-05). Subtitled, “The asylum loophole”.
  3. “The sad case of Hunter Biden” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
  4. “Merrick Garland, three special counsels and a Justice Department under fire” by Sadie Gurman, Aruna Viswanatha (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
  5. “Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
  6. “Trump conviction and Biden tapes put new pressure on Mike Johnson” by Katy Stech Farek (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
  7. “Israel, Palestine, and the sub-rational” by Michael G. Holzman (Persuasion, 2024-05-31).
  8. “Happy fun Cold War 2 update” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-29).
  9. “Blacklisted Chinese companies rebrand as American to dodge crackdown” by Heather Somerville (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-29).
  10. “How to live in a world where Trump is winning” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-05-28).
  11. “AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board” by Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley (The Economist, 2024-05-26).

Science

  1. “Biologists are unfolding life’s molecular shapes” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-28).

Society

  1. “How many of our ‘facts’ about society, health, and the economy are fake?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-06). Paywalled.
  2. “Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety?” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, 2024-06-04).
  3. “Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-05-29).
  4. “Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-03-28).

Technology

  1. “The AI revolution is already losing steam” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
  2. “The Daylight tablet returns computing to its hippie ideals” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-31).
  3. “Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?” (The Economist, 2024-05-29).
  4. “These Internet browsers promise privacy. What does that actually mean?” by Cheryl Winokur Munk (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-28).
  5. “Big Tech’s budding AI monopoly” by William P. Barr (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-27).
  6. “Don’t believe the biggest myth about heat pumps” by Matt Simon (WIRED, 2024-05-24).
  7. “Privacy experts sound the alarm over Microsoft’s latest AI tool” by Samantha Kelly (CNN, 2024-05-22).

Other

  1. “The struggle makes the reward” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-06-05).
  2. “The best noise-canceling headphones” by Nick Guy, Geoffrey Morrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
  3. “Take the work seriously. Yourself? Not so much.” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-05-28).
  4. “Reflections on Sozhenitsyn’s Harvard address” by Sergiu Klainerman (Quillette, 2020-10-24).
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4 May 2024

Read : 2024-05-04

Articles for reading

  1. “Keeping secrets” by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (Stanford Magazine, 2014-11/12).
  2. “The 214th Columbia University Commencement address” by Richard Hofstadter (Columbia University, 1968-06-04).

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “The paranoid style in Shakespeare denialism” by Oliver Kamm (Quillette, 2024-05-02).
  2. “Colleagues, students remember Helen Vendler, a ‘titan’ of poetry criticism” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-01).

Athletics

  1. “How old is too old to run?” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-04-26).
  2. “Longevity and VO2max: Does it actually matter?” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-25).

Business and investing

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-03). On Jeff Lawson and “The Onion”.
  2. “Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
  3. “Amazon gets more fuel for AI race” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-01).
  4. “Investors are showing AI startups with cash. One problem: They don’t have much of a business” by Berber Jin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-29).
  5. “Less is more: The case for ‘slow productivity’ at work” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-28).
  6. “Regulators seize troubled Philadelphia bank, Republic First” by Gina Heeb, Lauren Thomas, Justin Baer (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-26).
  7. “How far could America’s stockmarket fall?” (The Economist, 2024-04-25).

Cybersecurity

  1. “There’s more than one way to encrypt a secret” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-04-29).
  2. “Keeping secrets” by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (Stanford Magazine, 2014-11/12).

Economics

  1. “The employment situtation—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-03).
  2. “America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
  3. “Jerome Powell isn’t too worried about inflation” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-01).
  4. “Transcript of Chair Powell’s press conference—May 1, 2024” (US Federal Reserve, 2024-05-01).
  5. “ADP National Employment Report” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-05-01).
  6. “Japan is wrong to try to prop up the yen” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
  7. “Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
  8. “The end of magical debt thinking” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-04-29).
  9. “Personal income and outlays, March 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-04-26).
  10. “Is inflation morally wrong?” (The Economist, 2024-04-25).
  11. “JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon gives a soft landing long odds” (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25). 13m video recording (no transcript).
  12. “America’s economy is No. 1. That means trouble.” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25).

Education

  1. “Defending academic freedom in higher education and medicine” by Jeffrey S. Flier (Quillette, 2024-04-25).
  2. “The threat to academic freedom: from anecdotes to data” by Eric Kaufmann (Quillette, 2021-03-12).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-03). Subtitled, “We’re covering Covid vaccine side effects…”.
  2. “The morning” by Melissa Kirsch (The New York Times, 2024-04-27). Subtitled, “The advice to live each day to its fullest can seem like a cliché, but figuring out how to actually do that can be pretty challenging.”
  3. “Episode 208: Kindness—It’s good for you!” by Born Curious podcast (Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 2024-04-18). 41m audio recording with transcript.

Law

  1. “Resolving conflict outside the courtroom” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-04-29).

Politics

  1. “The positive case for Joe Biden” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-03).
  2. “Cease-fire will fail as long as Hamas exists, journalist says” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-01).
  3. “Why are politicians so negative? (Hint: It’s a media problem)” by Mark Coddington, Seth Lewis (Nieman Lab, 2024-04-30).
  4. “The age of cloud capital” by Yanis Varoufakis (Persuasion, 2024-04-29).
  5. “Plaintext” by Makena Kelly (WIRED, 2024-04-26). On TikTok.
  6. “Trump allies draw up plans to blunt Fed’s independence” by Andrew Restuccia, Nick Timiraos, Alex Leary (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-25).
  7. “What are the obligations of Israel and Hamas to protect civilians?” (The Economist, 2024-04-24).
  8. “The representation gap” by Sheri Berman (Persuasion, 2024-04-24).

Science

  1. “Aviv Regev: The revolution in digital biology” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-04-28).

Society

  1. “When free speech turns into harassment” by Cathy Young (Persuasion, 2024-05-03).
  2. “How disinformation works—and how to counter it” (The Economist, 2024-05-02).
  3. “The homelessness public health crisis” by Lydialyle Gibson (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05/06). 32m audio recording with article.
  4. “Mike Pesca on how the media got polarized” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-04-27). 68m audio recording with transcript.
  5. “We keep failing the blasphemy test” by Matt Johnson (Persuasion, 2024-04-26).
  6. “Why are women becoming so much more liberal than men?” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-04-25).
  7. “Summer unplugged” by Jill Anderson (Harvard EdCast, 2024-04-17). 31m audio recording with transcript.
  8. “How do we disagree in the public square?” (Zócalo, 2024-04). A collection of essays on disagreement in public discourse.
  9. “Looking back on a decade of cancel culture” by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott (Quillette, 2024-01-23).
  10. “The paranoid style in American politics” by Richard Hofstader (Harper’s Magazine, 1964-11).

Society : Student protests

  1. “Rules for campus radicals, 2024” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-02).
  2. “Dear media, stop taking students too seriously” by Shalom Auslander (Persuasion, 2024-05-01).
  3. “Escalating protests expose three fault lines on American campuses” (The Economist, 2024-04-30).
  4. “America’s new mob rule” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-30).
  5. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-04-25). Subtitled, “We’re covering the protests roiling college campuses…”.
  6. “The campus is coming for Joe Biden” (The Economist, 2024-04-24).
  7. “Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly” (The Economist, 2024-04-23).
  8. “I’m a Columbia professor. The protests on my campus are not justice.” by John McWhorter (The New York Times, 2024-04-23).
  9. “The 214th Columbia University Commencement address” by Richard Hofstadter (Columbia University, 1968-06-04).

Technology

  1. “VMware users warned to brace for next big upheaval as latest Broadcom changes rumble on” by Craig Hale (Tech Radar, 2024-04-26).
  2. “At Moderna, OpenAI’s GPTs are changing almost everything” by Isabelle Bousquette (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-04-24).
  3. “Large language models are getting bigger and better” (The Economist, 2024-04-17).

Other

  1. “How an allostatic approach can help you find stability in a crazy world” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-04-30).
  2. “What was the American Jew?” by Sam Kahn (Persuasion, 2024-04-23).
  3. “‘You must believe you can repair it’” by Scott Gilbertson (WIRED, 2023-05-28).
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7 March 2024

Read : 2024-03-07

Articles for reading

  1. “‘Harvard thinking’: Our democracy problem” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-28). 33m audio recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Books

  1. “Troubled is a national bestseller—but weirdly, not a New York Times bestseller” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-03-03).

Business and investing

  1. “What’s behind the US stock-market disconnect?” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-03-04).
  2. “A frothy market misses vital bubble ingredients” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-02).
  3. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-03-01). On AI startup Groq.
  4. “Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last” (The Economist, 2024-02-25).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Calls mount for government help as Change Healthcare hack freezes medical payments” by James Rundle, Kim S. Nash (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-05).
  2. “White House rallies industry support for memory safe programming” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-28).
  3. “GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-02-28).
  4. “Ivanti Connect Secure hackers hide in plain sight, evading protections” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-27).

Economics

  1. “Personal income and outlays, January 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-02-29).
  2. “For the Fed, January PCE inflation is a setback, but not a game changer” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-29).

Education

  1. “America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal” (The Economist, 2024-03-04).
  2. “How broken is academia?” by Jesse Adams (Persuasion, 2024-03-01).
  3. “Improving mental health through independent play” by Jill Andereson (Harvard Graduate School of Education > Harvard EdCast, 2024-02-23). A conversation with Peter Gray. 28m audio recording with transcript.

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “Coleen Murphy: The science of aging and longevity” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-03-03). 45m audio recording with transcript.
  2. “When therapy makes things worse” by Abigail Shrier (Quillette, 2024-02-29).
  3. “Long covid and cognitive deficits” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-02-28).
  4. “Understanding pathological narcissim” by Claudia Romano (Harvard Giffin GSAS News, 2024-02-21). Ellen Finch, PhD candidate in psychology, gives a quick overview of some of her research.

Law

  1. “Full steam ahead for Donald Trump after Supreme Court ruling” (The Economist, 2024-03-04).

Politics

  1. “Fact sheet: President Biden announces new actions to lower costs for Americans by fighting corporate rip-offs” (US White House, 2024-03-05).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times > The Morning, 2024-03-05). Subtitled “We’re covering Big Tech…”.
  3. “All politics is now media criticism” by John Halpin (Persuasion, 2024-03-04).
  4. “Moderate Republicans continue to betray their principles” by Berny Belvedere (Persuasion, 2024-02-28).
  5. “Why is the GOP sticking with Trump?” by Adam Garfinkle (Quillette, 2024-02-24).

Society

  1. “Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.)” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, Harvard University, 2024-02-28).
  2. “‘Harvard thinking’: Our democracy problem” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-28). 33m audio recording with transcript.

Technology

  1. “Red Sea conflict threatens key Internet cables” by Drew FitzGerald (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-03-02).
  2. “Why do Nvidia’s chips dominate the AI market?” (The Economist, 2024-02-27).
  3. “Could AMD break Nvidia’s chokehold on chips?” (The Economist, 2024-01-31).

Other

  1. “The morning” by Melissa Kirsch (The New York Times, 2024-03-02). Subtitled, “We know that happiness is to be found in taking our time and being present. How can we slow down and stop rushing our way through life?”
  2. “Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market” by Coby Lefkowitz (Noahpinion, 2024-03-02).
  3. “Greeks and Jews: Two diaspora peoples” by Katherine Kelaidis (Quillette, 2024-03-01).
  4. “The NYT misrepresents the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict” by Benny Morris (Quillette, 2024-02-27).
  5. “I trust you to do this” by Lory Hough (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2024-02-26).
  6. “The gospel of wealth according to Marc Benioff” by Chris Colin (WIRED, 2019-12-11).
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5 January 2024

Read : 2024-01-05

Articles for reading

  1. “10 new ideas to help you perform your best” by Clay Skipper (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-04).

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “For cyber companies, economic turbulence in 2023 sets up uncertain 2024” by Catherine Stupp, James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-01-03).
  2. “A ‘recipe for disaster’: Insiders warned Meta’s privacy push would shield child predators” by Jeff Horwitz, Katherine Blunt (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-22).
  3. “Google fixes 8th Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year” by Sergiu Gatlan (Bleeping Computer, 2023-12-20).
  4. “An iPhone thief explains how he steals your passcode and bank account” by Joanna Stern (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-20).

Economics

  1. “The employment situation—December 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-05). The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December 2023 is reported at +216k. The totals for October 2023 and November 2023 were both revised down, by 45k and 26k (30% and 13% of the previously reported totals), respectively.
  2. “Has America really escaped inflation?” (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  3. “ADP national employment report—December 2023” (ADP, 2024-01-04).
  4. “Job openings and labor turnover—November 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-01-03).
  5. “The 2024 economic outlook: Growing confidence” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-28).
  6. “2023 economic year-in-review” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-12-23).
  7. “Personal income and outlays, November 2023” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2023-12-22).

Education : Harvard

  1. “What just happened at Harvard is bigger than me” by Claudine Gay (The New York Times, 2024-01-03).
  2. “Harvard president resigns after mounting plagiarism accusations” by Jennifer Schuessler, Anemona Hartocollis, Michael Levenson, Alan Blinder (The New York Times, 2024-01-03).
  3. “The decline and fall of Harvard’s president” (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-01-03). Subtitled, “We’re covering the resignation of Harvard’s president…”.
  5. “Personal news” by Claudine Gay (Harvard University, 2024-01-02).
  6. “Statement from the Harvard Corporation: President Gay” by The Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard University, 2024-01-02).
  7. “Harvard President Claudine Gay steps down; Provost Alan Garber to serve as interim leader” (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-01-02).
  8. “Behind the campaign to take down Harvard’s Claudine Gay” by Douglas Belkin, Arian Campo-Flores (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-29).
  9. “What did Wall Street get right about markets this year? Not much” by Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-29).

Health and medicine

  1. “Tony Wyss-Coray: The science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-12-26). 32m audio recording with full transcript.

Investing

  1. “Best value stocks for 2024” by Chris Taylor (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-12-17).
  2. “How the young should invest” (The Economist, 2023-11-16).

Politics

  1. “Taiwan’s foreign minister on what’s at stake in the coming election” by Joseph Wu (The Economist, 2024-01-03).
  2. “Welcome to the era of AI nationalism” (The Economist, 2024-01-01).

Science and technology

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-01-05). On AI hallucinations.

Society

  1. “Liberalism’s forever crisis” by Jan-Werner Mueller (Project Syndicate, 2024-01-05).
  2. “10 trends to watch in 2024” by Rachel Layne (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-01-02).
  3. “2024 outlook: Rate cuts and the influencer apocalypse” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-01-02).
  4. “The morning” by David Leonhardt, Lyna Bentahar (The New York Times, 2023-12-22). Subtitled “We’re covering the rebirth of local journalism…”. The newsletter provides two quotes from journalists leading local-news initiatives who claim “the demise of local news wouldn’t cost very much money to reverse” (because—thankfully?!—”[m]ost journalists don’t make a lot of money”) and “real progress is underway”, but it provides no evidence (that I saw). Is this reporting on what is, or what the authors hope to be? on fact, or on ideology? In any case, I applaud The New York Times for giving local journalists a spotlight and a platform. (Keen coverage of local news is how I hope society to be.)
  5. “Games people play” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2022-11-13). On the book “Games people play”, by Eric Berne. Part one of three. (The later two posts are currently paywalled.)

Other

  1. “10 new ideas to help you perform your best” by Clay Skipper (The Growth Equation, 2024-01-04).
  2. “Evolve Move Play, sociopaths, romantic affairs” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-01-04).
  3. “It hurts as much as it’s worth” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2023-12-31).
  4. “Quillette editors’ choice 2023” by Zoe Booth (Quillette, 2023-12-22).
  5. “How to start a healthy habit (and keep it)” by Christina Pérez (Vogue, 2023-12-02).
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16 November 2023

Read : 2023-11-16

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach” by Ionut Ilascu (Bleeping Computer, 2023-11-15).
  2. “#StopRansomware: Rhysida ransomware” (US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023-11-15).
  3. “Cyber experts worry AI could create a world of haves and have-nots” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-15).
  4. “5 highest-paying IT certifications in 2023” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2023-11-14).
  5. “Every car is a smart car, and it’s a privacy nightmare” by Katie Malone (Engadget, 2023-11-06).
  6. “Decoupling for security” by Barath Raghavan, Bruce Schneier (IEEE Spectrum, 2023-11-05).
  7. “Reflections on the Internet worm at 35” by Gene Spafford (Purdue University : CERIAS, 2023-11-02).
  8. “Connecting the dots: Kaspersky reveals in-depth insights into Operation Triangulation” (Kaspersky, 2023-10-26).
  9. “How to catch a wild triangle” by Leonid Bezvershenk et al. (Kaspersky : SecureList, 2023-10-26).
  10. “Security vulnerability of Switzerland’s e-voting system” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-10-17).
    Again, the solution is paper.
  11. “The shapeshifting crypto wars” by Susan Landau (Lawfare, 2023-10-12).
  12. “State of cybersecurity 2024” (CompTIA, 2023-09).

Economics

  1. “The global fight against inflation has turned a corner” by Tom Fairless, Paul Hannon (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-16).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-11-16). Subtitled “We’re covering a surprising shift in economic thinking…”.
  3. “The $2 trillion interest bill that’s hitting governments” by Chelsey Dulaney, Andrew Duehren, Peter Santilli (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-11-15).
  4. “Producer price indexes—October 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-11-15).
  5. “Consumer price index—October 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-11-14).
  6. “A victory lap for the transitory inflation team” by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-13). That last sentence.

Health and medicine

  1. “What will it take to confront the invisible mental health crisis in business?” by Kara Baskin (Harvard Business School : Working Knowledge, 2023-11-09).
  2. “Vaccinologist Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire on COVID-19 vaccines, boosters, and more” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2023-11-08).

Politics

  1. “Undergraduate workers unionize” by Nina Pasquini (Harvard Magazine, 2023-11-08).

Science and technology

  1. “The super-scary theory of the 21st century (repost)” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-11-13).
  2. “The future of drone warfare” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-10-31).
  3. “Who’s accountable for AI usage in digital campaign ads? Right now, no one.” by Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier (Harvard Kennedy School : Ash Center, 2023-10-11).
  4. “The Web is dead. Long live the Internet” by Chris Anderson, Michael Wolff (WIRED, 2010-08-17).

Society

  1. “Rebuilding trust in expertise” by Diane Coyle (Project Syndicate, 2023-11-16).
  2. “Ten ways AI will change democracy” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-11-13).

Other

  1. “A tough question: When should an older driver stop driving?” by Robert H. Shmerling (Harvard Health Publishing, 2023-11-13). Part one of a two-part series.
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-11-14). Subtitled, “We’re covering the debate over Al-Shifa, Gaza’s biggest hospital…”
  3. “1948” by Michael Barbaro (The New York Times, 2023-11-03).
  4. “Xpert series certs” by Carolyn April, Seth Robinson, Teresa Sears (CompTIA Volley via YouTube, 2023-09-15). 25m audio-video recording. An overview of CompTIA’s new Xpert series certifications, with one of their designers.
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16 February 2023

Read : 2023-02-03

Articles for reading

  1. “Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston” by Tracy Kidder (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-20). Excerpts from “Rough sleepers”, by Tracy Kidder.
  2. “Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-08-30).
  3. “Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke” (The Economist, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “But threatening America’s credit is even dumber.”

Articles for reference

Economics

  1. “Fed debates whether wages or low unemployment will drive inflation” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-29).
  2. “Too soon for global optimism” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-31).
  3. “What is superior inflation?” by Brian Whitton, Dion Rabouin (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-31).
  4. “ADP national employment report: January 2023” (ADP, 2023-02-01). 106k net private jobs added in January 2022. Median year-over-year increase in pay was 7.3% for job-stayers and 15.4% for job=changers.
  5. “FOMC press conference: February 1, 2023” (US Federal Reserve, 2023-02-01).
  6. “Stock, bond and crypto investors bet Fed is bluffing on interest rates” by Akane Otani, Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
  7. “The morning” by Ben Casselman (The New York Times, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “New data suggests a promising possibility for the economy—that the U.S. avoids big job losses.” Upbeat and vague.
  8. “Rallying markets suffer from a doveish illusion” (The Economist, 2023-02-01).
  9. “TikTok’s corecore and the Federal Reserve” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-02-02).
  10. “The employment situation—January 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-02-03).
  11. “Job openings and labor turnover—December 2022” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-02-01). JOLTS news release.
  12. “Unemployment falls to 3.4%, lowest in 53 years, jobs report shows” by David Harrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-03).

Investing

  1. “Short sellers feel the pain in stock market’s 2023 rally” by Jack Pitcher, Akane Otani (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-29).
  2. “Investors shrug off weak earnings reports as stocks rebound to start year” by Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-01).
  3. “6 of the most shocking stock increases and falls” by Andrew Bloomenthal (Investopedia, 2022-09-20).
  4. “The unusual crew behind Tether, crypto’s pre-eminent stablecoin” by Ben Foley, Ada Hui, Peter Rudegeair (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
  5. “Big tech didn’t quite clear the bar” by Dan Gallagher (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-02).
  6. “Why you should stop caring about the Dow Jones Industrial Average” by Allan Sloan (Yahoo! Finance, 2023-02-03).

Mathematics

  1. “Mathematicians eliminate long-standing threat to knot conjecture” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2023-02-02). Mathematicians mentioned include Kristen Hendricks, Jennifer Hom, JungHwan Park, and Arunima Ray.

Medicine

  1. “Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston” by Tracy Kidder (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-20). Excerpts from “Rough sleepers”, by Tracy Kidder.

Politics

  1. “Friend-shoring vs. ‘buy American’” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-31).
  2. “Chinese spy balloon spotted over Montana: What to know” by Warren P. Strobel, Doug Cameron, James T. Areddy (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-03).
  3. “Republicans are right that federal budgeting is a joke” (The Economist, 2023-02-02). Subtitled, “But threatening America’s credit is even dumber.”

Science and technology

  1. “Has first person to live to be 150 been born?” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-30). Interview with Jae-Hyun Yang and David Sinclair.
  2. “The enormous heat pumps warming cities” by Evie Townend (BBC, 2023-02-01).

Society

  1. “The morning” by Nicholas Fandos (The New York Times, 2023-01-30). Subtitled, “A surge of migrants taking buses northward has led Mayor Eric Adams to describe New York City as close to a ‘breaking point’.”
  2. “Utopia or bust” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-03).
  3. “Are diversity statements a threat to academic freedom?” by Checks and Balances (The Economist, 2023-02-03). 39-minute audio podcast.

Other

  1. “Is cycling safe?” by Anna Lamb (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-01-30). Assessment offered by Harvard Chan School researcher Anne Lusk.
  2. “William James and a life worth living” by Jonathan Beasley (Harvard Divinity School, 2023-01-20). An interview with John Kaag.
  3. “Bacow counsels first-years to be ‘slow to judge, quick to understand’” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-08-30).
  4. “Balancing competitiveness and letting go” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-02-02).
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1 February 2023

Read : 2023-01-24

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “Breaking RSA with a quantum computer” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-01-03).
  2. “Identifying people using cell phone location data” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2023-01-09).

Economics

  1. “Incomes are rising in America, especially for the poorest” (The Economist, 2023-01-15).
  2. “China and the sovereign-debt bomb” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-13).
  3. “Why investors may be too optimistic about inflation” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-12).
  4. “A Q&A with Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum” (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-13).
  5. “The core story of American inflation” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-01-17).
  6. “Fed talks: A conversation with St. Louis Fed President James Bullard” by Nick Timiraos (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-18). Thirty-minute video interview.
  7. “Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America?” (The Economist, 2023-01-19).
  8. “Japan’s extraordinarily expensive defence of its monetary policy” (The Economist, 2023-01-18).
  9. “What even is a ‘mild’ recession?” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-01-19).
  10. “Will the Fed overdo it?” by Raghuram G. Rajan (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-24).

Investing

  1. “A crypto collapse and the end of the magical thinking that infected capitalism” by Mihir A. Desai (The New York Times, 2023-01-16).

Medicine

  1. “Loss of epigenetic information can drive aging, restoration can reverse it” by Stephanie Dutchen (Harvard Medical School News, 2023-01-12).

Politics

  1. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-01-13). On noncompete clauses, Lina Khan, and the Federal Trade Commission.
  2. “Biden administration’s big manufacturing push could transform global trade” by Yuka Hayashi (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-12).
  3. “Who is going to police the new world trading system?” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-01-14).
  4. “Why this debt-ceiling fight is different” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-19).

Science and technology

  1. “How technology can fight digital fakery” (The Economist : Babbage, 2023-01-18). 40-minute podcast.
  2. “This 22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever” by Greg Rosalsky, Emma Peaslee (NPR : Planet Money, 2023-01-17).
  3. “These simple design rules could turn the chip industry on its head” by Sophia Chen (MIT Technology Review, 2023-01-24). On RISC-V instruction set.
  4. “The Sino-American tech trap” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-01-24).

Society

  1. “The problem(s) with China’s population drop” by Paul Krugman (The New York Times, 2023-01-17).
  2. “Actually, Japan has changed a lot” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-24). A response to the farewell essay by the BBC’s outgoing Tokyo correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.

Other

  1. “Feeling stressed? Zoom out.” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-01-19).
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2 May 2022

Read : 2022-05-02

Articles for reading:

  1. “Has Harvard’s David Sinclair found the fountain of youth?” by Catherine Elton (Boston Magazine, 2019-10-29). Brings to mind Linus Pauling.
  2. “Adams vs. Paine: A critical debate” by Jeff Conner (Journal of the American Revolution, 2015-07-14).
  3. “Why the p-value is significant” (Tidsskriftet den Norske Legeforening, 2015-09-08).

Articles for reference:

  1. “Elon Musk’s $43 billion bid for Twitter lacks ‘legal clout’, experts say” by Alexis Keenan (Yahoo Finance, 2022-04-15). Not two weeks later…
  2. “Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life inside Telsa’s production hell” by Charles Duhigg (WIRED, 2018-12-13).
  3. “Researchers find first strong genetic risk factor for bipolar disorder” by Leah Eisenstadt (Broad Institute, 2022-04-06).
  4. “Warren Buffett says markets have become a ‘gambling parlor’” by Akane Otani (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-04-30). Berkshire Hathaway invests in Activision Blizzard, Allgehany, Chevron, HP, and Occidental Petroleum.
  5. “How do bubbles form? Tulips and GameStop can help explain” (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-05-02).
  6. “Brain fog: Memory and attention after covid-19” by Tamara Fong (Harvard Health Publishing, 2022-03-17).

Literacy in early America:

  1. “Literacy in colonial America” by Carla Gade (Colonial Quills, 2011-06-15).
  2. “‘Every man able to read’: Literacy in early America” by Jack Lynch (Colonial Williamsburg Journal, 2011, Winter).
  3. “A history of book ownership in the American colonies” by Brien Hoey (Books Tell You Why, 2016-11-24).
  4. “Growth of literacy in colonial America: longitudinal patterns, economic models, and the direction of future research” by F.W. Grubb (Social Science History, 1990, Volume 14, Number 4, pages 451–482).

Noam Chomsky, by or about:

  1. “Education for whom and for what?” by Noam Chomsky (The University of Arizona, 2012-02-17). 2h video: 75m talk, followed by question and answer.
  2. “A disgraceful career” by Keith Windschuttle (The New Criterion, Vol 23, No 1, 2004-09). Article subtitled “A review of ‘The anti-Chomsky reader’ by Peter Collier”.
  3. “The latter day critics of Noam Chomsky” by Wolfgang Sperlich (openDemocracy, 2018-10-15).

Editorials in Science magazine by then Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts. Some focused on education (alluded to in the Chomsky video above; for example, Albert discusses the kindergarten seed experiment in the editorial dated 2012-01-27):

  1. “Considering science education” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2008-03-21).
  2. “Making a science education” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2009-01-02).
  3. “Redefining science education” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2009-01-23).
  4. “On becoming a scientist” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2009-11-13).
  5. “Prioritizing science education” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2010-04-23).
  6. “Reframing science standards” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2010-07-30).
  7. “An education that inspires” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2010-10-22).
  8. “Getting education right” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2011-08-19).
  9. “Trivializing science education” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2012-01-20).
  10. “Teaching real science” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2012-01-27).
  11. “Improving education standards” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2013-02-01).
  12. “Am I wrong?” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2013-03-15).
  13. “Prioritizing science education” by Bruce Alberts (Science, 2013-04-19).

Alberts also has a page titled “Redefining science education“.

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19 December 2020

Read : 2020-12-19

Today’s selection of articles:

  1. “Think retirement is smooth sailing? A look at its potential effects on the brain” by Cella Write (TED Ideas, 2019-07-02). A digest of a TED talk by gerontologist Ross Andel. Key take-aways: Be deliberate, find purpose, build routine.
  2. “Revelations of cyberattacks on U.S. likely just ‘tip of the iceberg’” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2020-12-16).
  3. “What we know — and still don’t — about the worst-ever US government cyberattack” by Kari Paul (The Guardian, 2020-12-18).
  4. “The difference between red, blue, and purple teams” by Daniel Miessler (DanielMiessler.com, 2020-04-04).
  5. “Introducing the InfoSec colour wheel — blending developers with red and blue security teams” by Louis Cremen (Hacker Noon, 2020-02-21).
  6. “Expert reaction to the new variant of SARS-CoV-2” (Science Media Centre, 2020-12-14). Red, blue, and purple hats off especially to Professor Julian Hiscox, for concise, frank sharing of what’s known and not yet known.
  7. “Why you shouldn’t freak out about the new strain of coronavirus” by Nancy Schimelpfening (Healthline, 2020-12-18).
  8. “Die Luft der Freiheit weht — on and off” by Gerhard Casper (Stanford, 1995-10-05).
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