Read : 2024-06-06
Articles for reference
Arts
- “NYC Ballet’s Mira Nadon on George Balanchine’s Rubies: Anatomy of a dance” by nycballet (YouTube, 2023-09-06).
- “Why dancers love performing Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’” by Royal Opera House (YouTube, 2017-04-12).
Books
- “Imposing order on grief” by Iona Italia (Quillette, 2024-05-22). A review of Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.
Business and investing
- “Should you buy expensive stocks?” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
- “Bit Tech companies unplug stock market from reality” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
- “How to write the perfect CV” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
- “When to sell your stocks” (The Economist, 2024-05-30).
- “AI skills bring higher pay, more interview offers, study says” by Carolyn Crist (CIO Dive, 2024-05-24).
- “ISC2 reveals global ISC2 certification salaries” (ISC2, 2024-05-07). Note that regional aggregation masks within-region differences in cost of living.
- “Meme stocks are a thing—again” by Hannah Miao, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-05).
Cybersecurity
- “CVE exploits, stolen credentials fueled ransomware surge in 2023” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-06-04).
- “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).
- “‘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).
- “Detecting and preventing unauthorized user access” by Brad Jones (Snowflake, 2024-06-02).
- “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.
- “Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2024-05-30).
- “Critical CVEs are going under-analyzed as NIST falls behind” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-28).
- “Hackers created rogue VMs to evade detection in recent MITRE cyber attack” by Newsroom (The Hacker News, 2024-05-24).
- “CVE exploitation nearly tripled in 2023, Verizon finds” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-05-01).
Economics
- “ADP national employment report—May 2024” (ADP Research Institute, 2024-06-05).
- “Why China’s overcapacity problem is about to get even worse, in seven charts” by Nathaniel Taplin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
- “Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?” (The Economist, 2024-06-04).
- “Job openings and labor turnover—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-06-04).
- “Personal income and outlays, April 2024” (US Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2024-05-31).
Education
- “Google invests $15M to train new cyber pros” by Sam Sabin (Axios, 2024-06-04).
- “Next up for House renewal: Eliot” by Eileen O’Grady (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-30).
- “Deep reading will save your soul” by William Deresiewicz (Persuasion, 2024-05-29).
- “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.
- “Institutional voice” by Alan M. Garber et al. (Harvard : Office of the President, 2024-05-28).
Health, medicine, and wellness
- “Tom Cech: RNA takes center stage” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-06-05). 49m audio recording with transcript; link to video recording.
- “Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points” by Alina Chan (The New York Times, 2024-06-03).
- “Long covid at 3 years” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-30).
- “Venki Ramakrishnan: The new science of aging” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2024-05-28). 50 m audio recording with transcript.
Law
- “The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of free speech” by Nadine Strossen (Persuasion, 2024-06-04).
Politics : BGP
- “FCC vote on tap for rules to secure fundamental component of the internet” by Tim Starks (CyberScoop, 2024-06-04).
- “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
- “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).
- “The goal for China’s chip giant: Cut out the U.S.” by Yoko Kubota (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
- “The U.S. gave chip makers billions. Now comes the hard part.” by Asa Fitch (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
- “The global chips battle, in charts” by Nate Rattner, Jiyoung Sohn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-02).
Politics : India
- “The morning” by Alex Travelli (The New York Times, 2024-06-06). Subtitled, “Modi’s choices”.
- “A triumph for Indian democracy” (The Economist, 2024-06-05).
- “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
- “Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
- “Mexico’s new president is an enigma” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-06-03).
Politics : Trump’s NY trial
- “William Galston on 2024 and Trump’s conviction” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-06-01). 1h29m audio recording with transcript.
- “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times 2024-05-31). Subtitled, “We’re covering Trump’s conviction…”.
- “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).
- “A guilty verdict for Trump and its consequences for the country” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-30).
Politics : Other
- “Why no one will save Sudan” by Cameron Hudson (Persuasion, 2024-06-05).
- “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-06-05). Subtitled, “The asylum loophole”.
- “The sad case of Hunter Biden” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-05).
- “Merrick Garland, three special counsels and a Justice Department under fire” by Sadie Gurman, Aruna Viswanatha (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-04).
- “Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary” (The Economist, 2024-06-03).
- “Trump conviction and Biden tapes put new pressure on Mike Johnson” by Katy Stech Farek (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
- “Israel, Palestine, and the sub-rational” by Michael G. Holzman (Persuasion, 2024-05-31).
- “Happy fun Cold War 2 update” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-29).
- “Blacklisted Chinese companies rebrand as American to dodge crackdown” by Heather Somerville (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-29).
- “How to live in a world where Trump is winning” by Quico Toro (Persuasion, 2024-05-28).
- “AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board” by Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley (The Economist, 2024-05-26).
Science
- “Biologists are unfolding life’s molecular shapes” by Yasemin Saplakoglu (Quanta Magazine, 2024-05-28).
Society
- “How many of our ‘facts’ about society, health, and the economy are fake?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-06-06). Paywalled.
- “Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety?” by Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, 2024-06-04).
- “Don’t be a stranger: The power of renewing old friendships” by Rob Henderson (The Boston Globe, 2024-05-29).
- “Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2021-03-28).
Technology
- “The AI revolution is already losing steam” by Christopher Mims (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-31).
- “The Daylight tablet returns computing to its hippie ideals” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2024-05-31).
- “Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?” (The Economist, 2024-05-29).
- “These Internet browsers promise privacy. What does that actually mean?” by Cheryl Winokur Munk (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-28).
- “Big Tech’s budding AI monopoly” by William P. Barr (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-27).
- “Don’t believe the biggest myth about heat pumps” by Matt Simon (WIRED, 2024-05-24).
- “Privacy experts sound the alarm over Microsoft’s latest AI tool” by Samantha Kelly (CNN, 2024-05-22).
Other
- “The struggle makes the reward” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-06-05).
- “The best noise-canceling headphones” by Nick Guy, Geoffrey Morrison (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-06-03).
- “Take the work seriously. Yourself? Not so much.” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-05-28).
- “Reflections on Sozhenitsyn’s Harvard address” by Sergiu Klainerman (Quillette, 2020-10-24).