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).

Read : 2022-03-19

Articles for reference: Covid:

1. “Sweden’s no-lockdown covid strategy was broadly correct, commission suggests” (CBC, 2022-02-25).
2. “The epidemic of covid complacency” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2022-03-06).
3. “‘Endemic’ is not an exit” by Justin Saglio (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-09). 2m video.

Articles for reference: Inflation (economics):

1. “Yes, inflation is transitory” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2021-08-21).
2. “The employment situation—February 2022” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022-03-04).
3. “Will inflation stay high for decades? One influential economist says yes” by Tom Fairless (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-03-09).
4. “No panic in Furman’s reaction to inflation data, but plenty of uncertainty” by Lian Parsons (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-10).
5. “Producer price indexes—February 2022” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022-03-15).
6. “Financial conditions are tightening as the Fed raises rates” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-03-19).

Articles for reference: Investing:

1. “The soul of an investor” by Jason Zweig (Money Magazine, 2005-03; forward 2014-12-03).
2. “Xi spurs frantic stock buying with lifeline for China market” by Sofia Horta e Costa (Bloomberg, 2022-03-16).

Articles for reference: Maths and science:

1. “A deepening crisis forces physicists to rethink structure of nature’s laws” by Natalie Wolchover (Quanta Magazine, 2022-03-01).
2. “In new math proofs, artificial intelligence plays to win” by Leila Sloman (Quanta Magazine, 2022-03-07).
3. “Contact geometry and the mapping class group” by Joan E. Licata (American Mathematical Society, 2022-04).
4. “Geometry of Calabi–Yau metrics” by Song Sun (American Mathematical Society, 2022-04).

Articles for reference: Ukraine:

1. “The morning” by German Lopez (The NY Times, 2022-02-27). Subtitled “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is yet more bad news for the world’s democracies”.
2. “Video interview: Rob Lee, Russian defense policy specialist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-02-27). 56m video interview.
3. “It’s going to get worse before it gets better in Ukraine” by Alvin Powell, Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-02).
4. “How might the war in Ukraine end? Five factors that will shape the outcome” by Stephen Fidler (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-03-02).
5. “Can Ukraine’s experiments in local democracy survive the invasion?” by Joe Mathews (Zócalo, 2022-03-02).
6. “Ukraine war prompts surprising unity in Europe on need for bolstering defense” by James F. Smith (The Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-03-04).
7. “Plaintext : 03.04.22” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2022-03-04). On corporations’ actions in response to Putin’s war in Ukraine.
8. “How are the Big Sanctions hurting Russia so far?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-03-07).
9. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2022-03-07). “We look at why the West didn’t try harder to prevent the invasion of Ukraine.”
10. “Russian attack, taking of Ukraine plant ramps up nuclear threat” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-07).
11. “Are we entering another Cold War? Probably not—but it could be even worse” by James F. Smith (Harvard Kennedy School, 2022-03-08).
12. “Can the West aid Ukraine without crossing red lines with Russia?” by Annmarie Fertoli, Stephen Fidler (The Wall Street Journal : What’s News, 2022-03-09). 15m audio.
13. “Russia’s punishment is a global event” by Alvin Powell (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-10).

Articles for reference: Other:

1. “We’re telling the wrong border stories” by Ali Noorani (Zócalo, 2022-03-03).
2. “Finding meaning in our never-enough culture” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2022-03).
3. “How to read ‘Ulysses’? With gratitude.” by Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-02-24).
4. “The Tamerlane principle” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-03-06). A repost from 2011.
5. “Why you stay up so late, even when you know you shouldn’t” by Ashley Lauretta (WIRED, 2021-03-24).
6. “Taking best of innovations, lessons of pandemic education” by Nate Herpich (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-09).
7. “How economic warfare backfired in Rome” by Edward Watts (Zócalo, 2022-03-10).
8. “Time for a diplomatic revolution” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-03-11).
9. “Plaintext : 03.11.22” by Stephen Levy (WIRED, 2022-03-11). On the social audio app Clubhouse.
10. “What’s behind post-covid brain fog?” by Tamara Fong (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-03-17).
11. “The world’s best bounty hunter is 4’11”. Here’s how she hunts” by Randall Sullivan (WIRED, 2013-12-17).

US President Joe Biden’s 2022 state of the union address:

1. “President Biden’s state of the union address” (The White House, 2022-03-01).
2. “FactChecking Biden’s state of the union address” by Eugene Kiely et al. (FactCheck.org, 2022-03-02).
3. “Joe Biden’s state-of-the-union address fails to impress” (The Economist, 2022-03-05).

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”.

Read : 2021-11-07

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “How the American women fared in the 2021 NYC Marathon” by Taylor Dutch (Runner’s World, 2021-11-07).

   [M]y goal was just to hang with the pack for as long as I could and know that I belong there.
   —Molly Seidel

2. “Much of what you’ve heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-11-03).
3. “Seven unexpected ways meditation changed my teaching” by William Meyer (Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2021-11-03).
4. “Mathematician’s life advice: Subtract the boring parts” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2021-11-04).

Read : 2021-11-04

Today’s selection of articles:

1. “Eliud Kipchoge: Inside the camp, and the mind, of the greatest marathon runner of all time” by Cathal Dennehy (The Irish Examiner, 2021-10-29).

   “It’s not really about the performance, it’s about recovery, that if you train really hard, then your muscles can recover faster.”

   Kipchoge does three hard workouts a week: 15-16km worth of track repetitions on Tuesdays, a long run of 30 or 40km on Thursdays, and a 50-minute fartlek session on Saturdays, alternating three minutes of hard running with one minute of jogging.

   Near the entrance to the camp is a sign with a quote from Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho: “If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.” It was put there by Kipchoge…

2. “Fed tapering won’t beat inflation” by Alexander William Salter (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-10-28).
3. “Fed complacency feeds inflation” by Mickey D. Levy (The Wall Street Journal, 2021-10-31).
4. “America’s money supply has ballooned. What should we expect next?” by Mickey D. Levy (Economics 21, 2020-07-07).
5. “Much of what you’ve heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-11-03).
6. “A fast mile is more impressive than a slow marathon” by Martin Fritz Huber (Outside, 2017-07-27).
7. “The 50-year-old problem that eludes theoretical computer science” by Siobhan Roberts (MIT Technology Review, 2021-10-27).