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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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28 May 2024

Read : 2024-05-28

Articles for reading

  1. “Mexican democracy hangs in the balance” by Enrique Krauze (Persuasion, 2024-05-27).
  2. “Canada’s assault on free speech” by Jeffrey Cieslikowsky (Persuasion, 2024-05-23).
  3. “Here’s how to put a country back together” by Eboo Patel (Persuasion, 2024-05-22).

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “The morning” by Sarah Diamond (The New York Times, 2024-05-27). Subtitled, “From audition to boot camp”.
  2. “The hit series ‘Bridgerton’ has set off a string-quartet boom” (The Economist, 2024-05-20).
  3. “Publishers aren’t in trouble—writers are” by Elle Griffin (Persuasion, 2024-05-20).

Books

  1. “In this economy book: The why and how” by kyla scanlon (Kyla’s Newsletter, 2024-05-17).
  2. “Five novels that imagine dictatorship in America” (The Economist 2024-05-15).

Business and investing

  1. “What entry-level jobs really look like today” by Lindsay Ellis, Kara Dapena (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
  2. “Market froth is getting extreme. Just look at meme stocks.” by James Mackintosh (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-17).
  3. “Investors are striking gold all over” by Gregory Zuckerman, Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-17).
  4. “Called back to the office? How you benefit from ideas you didn’t know you were missing” by Ben Rand (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-05-09).
  5. “The rise of large-language-model optimization” by Bruce Schneier, Judith Donath (The Atlantic, via Schneier on Security, 2024-04-25).
  6. “The untold story: How the iPhone blew up the wireless industry” by Fred Vogelstein (WIRED, 2008-01-09).

Cybersecurity

  1. “CyberArk to acquire Venafi for $1.5 billion as cyber market shows signs of recovery” by James Rundle (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
  2. “It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones” (The Economist, 2024-05-17).
  3. “UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices” by Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica, 2024-04-29).
  4. “GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs” by Lawrence Abrams (Bleeping Computer, 2024-04-20).
  5. “New lattice cryptanalytic technique” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-04-15). Retracted as of 2024-04-20.
  6. “Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations issue alert for social engineering takeovers of open source projects” by Robin Bender Ginn, Omkhar Arasaratnam (OpenJS Foundation, 2024-04-??).

Economics

  1. “Central banks’ new-old inflationary bias” by Kenneth Rogoff (Project Syndicate, 2024-05-27).
  2. “A detailed look at Biden’s new China tariffs” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-05-25).
  3. “In which British writers scold America on trade” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-21).
  4. “The myth of central-bank independence” by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate, 2024-05-20).
  5. “Why is China producing so many export goods, anyway?” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-17).
  6. “Consumer price index—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-15).
  7. “America’s manufacturing productivity problem” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-05-14).
  8. “Producer price indexes—April 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-05-14).
  9. “The big tariffs are here” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-14).

Education : Protests at Harvard

  1. “I led The Crimson through historic backlash. Now, Harvard’s Pro-Palestine protestors face worse.” by Raquel Coronell Uribe (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-23).
  2. “Harvard Corporation rejects FAS effort to let 13 pro-Palestine student protestors graduate” by Emma H. Haidar, Cam E. Kettles (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-22).
    Monday’s faculty vote did not, however, revisit these disciplinary rulings, did not purport to engage in the individualized assessment of each case that would ordinarily be required to do so, and, most importantly, did not claim to restore the students to good standing.
  3. “Harvard Corporation rules thirteen students cannot graduate” (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05-22).
  4. “Dissent: There is no Palestine exception” by Jacob M. Miller (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-21).
  5. “A Palestine exception to Commencement” by The Crimson Editorial Board (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-21).
  6. “Harvard faculty overwhelmingly vote to allow seniors disciplined over encampment to graduate” by Tilly R. Robinson, Neil H. Shah (The Harvard Crimson, 2024-05-20). Buried in the article is the fact that “the faculty” refers to the 115 voting faculty members—out of 888 total—who chose to attend the meeting. (The authors note this turnout is “unusually high”.) I did not see the number of votes for and against presented. (It may have been a voice vote.)
  7. “Update on encampment in Harvard Yard” by Alan M. Garber (Harvard University, 2024-05-14).

Education : Other

  1. “Time to stand up, defend American higher education, Faust says” by Liz Mineo (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-21).
  2. “‘Free and brave’: Defending universities and the rule of truth” by Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard Magazine, 2024-05-21).
  3. “Time is running out to fix America’s student-aid mess” (The Economist, 2024-05-21).
  4. “Um…where is everybody?” by Elaine McArdle (Harvard GSE : Education Magazine, 2024-05-08).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “Anger does a lot more damage to your body than you realize” by Sumathi Reddy (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-22).
  2. “Everything counts!” by Kira Sampson (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-05-20). On measuring activity in steps versus time.
  3. “Ultra-processed foods—some more than others—linked to early death” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2024-05-15).
  4. “‘No safe amount of exposure’ to gas stove pollution” (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2024-05-14).

Law

  1. “A Supreme Court victory for the administrative state” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-16).

Politics

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-23). Subtitled, “We’re covering Biden’s immigration policy…”.
  2. “The Israelis prove Biden wrong on Rafah” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-22).
  3. “How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-05-22). Paywalled.
  4. “Le Pen’s hard right looks set to crush Macron’s centrists” (The Economist, 2024-05-22).
  5. “The morning” by Azam Ahmed (The New York Times, 2024-05-22). Subtitled, “America’s monster”. On Afghanistan.
  6. “Prosecuting Netanyahu has risks for International Criminal Court” by Jess Bravin (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-21).
  7. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-05-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering ‘neopopulism’…”.
  8. “Debating Trump is a mistake” by John McWhorter (Persuasion, 2024-05-17).
  9. “American IT scammer helped North Korea fund nuclear weapons program, U.S. says” by Mariah Timms, Dustin Volz (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-05-16).
  10. “Why America is vulnerable to a despot” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).
  11. “Is America dictator-proof?” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).
  12. “Joe Biden, master oil trader” (The Economist, 2024-05-16).

Society

  1. “Mexican democracy hangs in the balance” by Enrique Krauze (Persuasion, 2024-05-27).
  2. “Canada’s assault on free speech” by Jeffrey Cieslikowsky (Persuasion, 2024-05-23).
  3. “Here’s how to put a country back together” by Eboo Patel (Persuasion, 2024-05-22).
  4. “Nellie Bowles on how the revolution went mainstream” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-05-18). 1h09m audio recording with transcript.
  5. “How The New York Times went woke” by Nellie Bowles (Persuasion, 2024-05-15).
  6. “For political journalists, neutrality isn’t the goal” by Marisa Lagos (Zócalo, 2024-05-16).
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