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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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3 March 2023

Read : 2023-03-03

Articles for reading

  1. “A letter from Mexico City: Can polarization build democracy?” by Javier González (Zócalo, 2023-02-27).
  2. “Fed might be winning inflation fight, depending on index used” by Gwynn Guilford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02). Forecasting differences in CPI and PCEPI measures for 2023.
  3. “The end of the English major” by Nathan Heller (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27).
  4. “The worlds of Italo Calvino” by Merve Emre (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27). I find Calvino’s prepared notes for his lecture series “Six memos for the next millennium”—never delivered—a wonderful window into the author’s mind.
  5. “Textualism is ‘missing something’” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-01). The article includes a video recording of William Baude’s lecture, titled “Beyond textualism?” (YouTube, 42m).

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “The worlds of Italo Calvino” by Merve Emre (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27).

Athletics

  1. “NCAA publishes Division I 2022–2023 National Championship standards” by Braden Keith (SwimSwam, 2022-08-01).

Cybersecurity

  1. “Fact Sheet: Biden–Harris administration announces national cybersecurity strategy” (The White House, 2023-03-02).
  2. “National cybersecurity strategy” (The White House, 2023-03).
  3. “Biden national cyber strategy seeks to hold software firms liable for insecurity” by Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).
  4. “How the U.S. national cyber strategy reaches beyond government agencies” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).
    “We recognize that we need to move from a public-private partnership, information-sharing approach to implementing minimum mandates.”
    —Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology
  5. “Electric vehicles could be targeted by hackers” by Zoe Thomas (The Wall Street Journal > Tech News Briefing, 2023-03-01). “[A]nd why do EVs pose a bigger risk than gas-powered cars?”
  6. “You can’t trust app developers’ privacy claims on Google Play” by Lily-Hay Newman (WIRED > WIRED Security podcast, 2023-02-27).
  7. “Could electric vehicles be hacked?” by Bart Ziegler (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-14).
  8. “Cisco chief says tech products must be made more secure” by Catherine Stupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).

Economics

  1. “China debt blowout rings alarm bells as leadership meets” (Bloomberg News, 2023-02-28).
  2. “Past U.S. industrial policy offers lessons, risks for chips program” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-28).
  3. “Fed might be winning inflation fight, depending on index used” by Gwynn Guilford (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-02).
  4. “Why the data makes no sense” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2023-03-02).

Education

  1. “The end of the English major” by Nathan Heller (The New Yorker, 2023-02-27).

Health and medicine

  1. “Amyloid gains converts in debate over Alzheimer’s treatments” by Joseph Walker (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-27).
  2. “Consulting Dr. YouTube” by BWH Communications (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-28). On sleep tips, from YouTube and from doctors.
  3. “Heart attacks and strokes late after covid” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-03-03).
  4. “New drugs could spell an end to the world’s obesity epidemic” (The Economist, 2023-03-02).

Investing

  1. “Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway posts big 2022 loss in rocky market” by Akane Otani (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-25).
  2. “Warren Buffett’s slap at buyback illiterates rings true” by Spencer Jakab (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-27).

Law

  1. “Speak freely” by Julia Hanna (Harvard Law Bulletin, 2023-02-14).
  2. “Why I changed my mind” by Christine Perkins (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-02).
  3. “Textualism is ‘missing something’” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2023-03-01). The article includes a video recording of William Baude’s lecture (YouTube, 42m).

Politics

  1. “The build-nothing country” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-02-27).
  2. “A letter from Mexico City: Can polarization build democracy?” by Javier González (Zócalo, 2023-02-27).
  3. “Even Democrats like me are fed up with San Francisco” by Michael Moritz (The New York Times, 2023-02-26).
  4. “Biden’s growing credibility gap” by Michael J. Boskin (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-28).
  5. “Sleepwalking toward accidental conflict” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2023-02-27).
  6. “Biden administration urges Congress to renew spy law” by Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-28). On the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Section 702.
  7. “Insider-trading cases once deemed too hard to crack are now targets of U.S. government” by Dave Michaels, Mark Maremont (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-03). The US Justice Department, “using data analysis”, has begun pursuing more cases against individuals trading under Rule 10b5-1.
  8. “Why the Russia sanctions are missing the mark” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2023-03-03).

Science and technology

  1. “Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-24). Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb on black holes.
  2. “One small step toward understanding gravity” by Alice McCarthy (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-02-22).
  3. “WIRED podcasts” (WIRED). Gateway to WIRED’s podcasts.
Science and technology : Cell phones and mental health
  1. “Why I’m not writing about kids and screen time anymore” by Julie Jargon (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-25).
  2. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-02-27). “We examine the raging debate about smartphones and teenage mental health.”
  3. “Honestly, it’s probably the phones” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-03-02).

Society

  1. “Apartment rents fall as crush of new supply hits market” by Will Parker (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-02-27).
  2. “Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong” by Aaron Carr (Noahpinion, 2023-03-03).

Other

  1. “I’ve been to the mountaintop” by Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Rhetoric, 1968-04-03). Audio recording and transcribed text.
  2. “What the nose knows” by Colleen Walsh (The Harvard Gazette, 2020-02-27).
  3. “What Harold McGee learned after decade of sniffing durian, keyboards, outer space” by Caitlin McDermott-Murphy (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-03-01).
  4. “Havana syndrome unlikely caused by foreign adversary or weapon, U.S. report says” by Warren P. Strobel (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-03-01).
  5. “Plaintext” by Steven Levy (WIRED, 2023-03-03). On Malcolm Harris and his new book, “Palo Alto”.
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