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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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27 February 2024

Read : 2024-02-27

Articles for reading

  1. “What do we do with our loneliness?” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14). 27m audio recording with transcript.

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “Hollywood bets on a future of quick clips and tiny screens” by Adam Rogers (WIRED, 2020-01-08).

Athletics

  1. “The distance traveled: Swimming trio leads Owl distance squad” by Daniel Hansen (Rice Owls, 2024-02-21).
  2. “5 lessons on life from the greatest sporting event” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2024-02-14).

Books

  1. “How the luxury beliefs of an educated elite erode society” by Rob Henderson (The Times, 2024-02-23).
  2. “What shocked me about the culture at Yale” by Rob Henderson (Persuasion, 2024-02-21). An excerpt from Rob Henderson’s book “Troubled”.
  3. “Is everything you assumed about the Middle Ages wrong?” (The Economist, 2024-02-21). Book review of “Medieval horizons”, by Ian Mortimer.
  4. “We’ve come a long way” by Rob Henderson (Rob Henderson’s Newsletter, 2024-02-18).
  5. “2054, part I: Death of a president” by Maria Streshinsky (WIRED, 2024-02-17). On the novel “2054”, by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis.
  6. “Chaos at the end of history” by Matt Johnson (Quillette, 2024-02-12). A review of “The end of history and the last man” (1989) by Francis Fukuyama.

Business and investing

  1. “Right or wrong?” by Jason Zweig (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-27). Zweig argues the better question is, “Why were you right or wrong?” That is, were you right or wrong (as measured) for the right or wrong reasons (as empirically or logically argued)?
  2. “Generative AI skills bring nearly 50% salary bump: Indeed” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-21).
  3. “Data show the economy is booming. Wall Street thinks otherwise” by Sam Goldfarb (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-20).
  4. “Cisco to lay off more than 4k in restructuring” by Roberto Torres (CIO Dive, 2024-02-15).

Cybersecurity

  1. “NIST releases version 2.0 of landmark Cybersecurity Framework” (US National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2024-02-26).
  2. “Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2024-02-23).
  3. “Back to the building blocks: A path toward secure and measurable software” (US Office of the National Cyber Director, via US White House, 2024-02).
  4. “The Mirai confessions: Three young hackers who built a Web-killing monster finally tell their story” by Andy Greenberg (WIRED, 2023-11-14).

Economics

  1. “Do not expect America’s interest rates to fall just yet” (The Economist, 2024-02-22).
  2. “Producer price indices—January 2024” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024-02-16).

Education

  1. “Institutional neutrality in a polarized world: What should Harvard and higher ed do?” (2024-03-05). Registration, in person or online, for a panel on 2024-03-05 featuring Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Tom Ginsburg, Janet Halley, and Robert C. Post.
  2. “Why Americans love to hate Harvard” by Derek Bok (Harvard Magazine, 2024-03).
  3. “Larry Summers on what went wrong on campus” by Yascha Mounk (Persuasion, 2024-02-24).
  4. “AWS expands free AI training course catalog” by Lindsey Wilkinson (CIO Dive, 2024-02-16).

Health, medicine, and wellness

  1. “The art and science of happiness” (Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics Forum, 2024-02-26). Featuring Arthur Brooks.
  2. “Does drinking water before meals really help you lose weight?” by Robert H. Shmerling (Harvard Health Publishing, 2024-02-20).
  3. “What do we do with our loneliness?” by Samantha Laine Perfas (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14). 27m audio recording with transcript.
  4. “Confronting the dangers of ultra-processed food” (The Economist, 2023-07-24).
  5. “Mortician breaks down dead body scenes from movies & TV” (WIRED, 2021-12-02). 28m video recording.

Law

  1. “Four more prestigious colleges to settle price-fixing suit for $166 million” by Melissa Korn (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-24).
  2. “Two ideas of free speech duel at America’s Supreme Court” (The Economist, 2024-02-23).
  3. “Compelling speech” by Rachel Reed (Harvard Law Today, 2024-02-21). On free speech and social media.

Mathematics

  1. “The deep math of tiling” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-26).
  2. “Never-repeating tiles can safeguard quantum information” by Ben Brubaker (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-23).
  3. “Unfolding the mysteries of polygonal billiards” by David S. Richeson (Quanta Magazine, 2024-02-15).

Navalny, Alexei

  1. “Alexei Navalny 1976–2024” by John Lloyd (Quillette, 2024-02-23).
  2. “What Navalny’s death means for Russia, Putin and the world” (The Economist, 2024-02-16).

Politics

  1. “Mexico’s ‘hugs, not bullets’ crime policy spreads grief, murder and extortion” by Juan Montes (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-25).
  2. “Trump tightens hold on GOP, crowding out even popular rivals” by Aaron Zitner, Jack Gillum (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-25).
  3. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2024-02-20). Subtitled, “We’re covering the latest battleground in Gaza…”.
  4. “The moral blindness of Putin’s apologists on the right” by Gerard Baker (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-19).
  5. “The US–China chip war is escalating” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2024-02-17).
  6. “The growing peril of national conservatism” (The Economist, 2024-02-15).
  7. “Pushing back against China—without igniting war” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-14).
  8. “The real message of Vladimir Putin’s chat with Tucker Carlson” (The Economist, 2024-02-09).
  9. “A self-enforcing protocol to solve gerrymandering” by Bruce Schneier (Schneier on Security, 2024-02-02).

Science

  1. “Richard Charles Lewontin, 92” by Andrew Berry, Hopi Hoekstra, John Wakeley, Daniel L. Hartl (The Harvard Gazette, 2024-02-09).

Society

  1. “New technologies, new totalitarians” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2024-02-27).
  2. “Framing is everything” by Daniel Miessler (Unsupervised Learning, 2024-02-24).
  3. “We are entering an age of ultra-processed information” by Brad Stulberg (The Growth Equation, 2024-02-21).
  4. “Equality is not immunity” by George Case (Quillette, 2024-02-20).
  5. “The morning” by Christine Chung (The New York Times, 2024-02-18). Subtitled, “My colleague Christine Chung…has a new story about a technological shift underway at America’s airports.”

Technology

  1. “How to make AI ‘forget’ all the private data it shouldn’t have” by Rachel Layne (Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 2024-02-22).
  2. “Chatbots and human conversation” by Albert Fox Cahn, Bruce Schneier (The Atlantic, via Schneier on Security, 2024-01-26).
  3. “Quantum computing’s hard, cold reality check” by Edd Gent (IEEE Spectrum, 2023-12-22).

Other

  1. “Nvidia, AI and U.S. innovation” by The Editorial Board (The Wall Street Journal, 2024-02-22).
  2. “Intersectionality’s cosmic inquisitor” by Jonathan Kay (Quillette, 2024-02-15). On Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
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9 August 2023

Read : 2023-08-09

Free online course to check out

  1. “Financial literacy” (Khan Academy). Introductory course.

Articles for reference

Arts

  1. “Interest in George Orwell and his dystopian fiction is high” (The Economist, 2023-08-04).

Cybersecurity

  1. “NIST releases draft overhaul of its core cybersecurity framework” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-09).
  2. “The MOVEit spree is as bad as—or worse—than you think it is” by Matt Kapko (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-09).
  3. “New privacy tools to help you stay safe and in control online” by Danielle Romain (Google, 2023-08-03).
  4. “Multiple Chinese APTs establish major beachheads inside sensitive infrastructure” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2023-08-01).
  5. “2022 top routinely exploited vulnerabilities” (US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, 2023-08-03).
  6. “White House looks to close massive cyber skills gap” by David Jones (Cybersecurity Dive, 2023-08-01).
  7. “Inside the massive 711 million record online spambot dump” by (TroyHunt.com, 2017-08-30). Troy Hunt runs the website Have I Been Pwned.
  8. “Krebs’s 3 basic rules for online safety” by Brian Krebs (Krebs on Security, 2011-05-20).

Economics

  1. “The EU’s fragile recovery” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-08-09).
  2. “What was the tech-cession?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-08-06).
  3. “Economists reconsider industrial policy” by Dani Rodrik, Réka Juhász, Nathan Lane (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-04).
  4. “The employment situation—July 2023” (US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023-08-04).
    • Total nonfarm payrolls:
      • July : +187k mom
      • June (rev) : -24k to +185k mom
      • May (rev) : -25k to +281k mom
    • Unemployment rate : 3.5%
    • Average hourly earnings:
      • Private nonfarm employees : +0.4% mom (+4.4% yoy)
      • Private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees : +0.5% mom (+4.8% yoy)
  5. “The inflation crisis is not over” by Mario I. Blejer, Piroska Nagy Mohácsi (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-03).
  6. “Interview: Heather Boushey, economist and member of the Council of Economic Advisers” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-08-02). Written transcript.
  7. “ADP national employment report” (ADP, 2023-08-02).

Investing

  1. “Investment theory in practice” by J. Bradford DeLong (Project Syndicate, 2023-08-01).
  2. “Five things investors have learned this year” (The Economist, 2023-08-01).
  3. “Financial literacy” (Khan Academy).

Politics

  1. “The founders anticipated the threat of Trump” by Jeffrey Rosen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-04).

Science and technology

  1. “Melanie Mitchell: Straight talk on AI large language models” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2023-08-04). 40m podcast with full transcript.
  2. “A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work” by Timothy B. Lee, Sean Trott (Ars Technica, 2023-07-31).
  3. “Physicists rewrite a quantum rule that clashes with our universe” by Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine, 2022-09-26).

Society

  1. “The morning” by German Lopez (The New York Times, 2023-08-04). Subtitled, “We’re covering Oregon’s drug surge…”
  2. “Climate change, global hunger: What to do?” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette, 2023-08-01).

Other

  1. “What’s really driving your procrastination and how to beat it” by Rachel Feintzeig (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-08-06).
  2. “Overcoming fear: Lessons from public speaking” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-08-02).
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20 May 2023

Read : 2023-05-20

Articles for reading

  1. “Journalism’s essential value” by A.G. Sulzberger (Columbia Journalism Review, 2023-05-15).
  2. “Attention shoppers!” by Michael H. Goldhaber (WIRED, 1997-12-01).

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “‘Post-quantum’ cryptograph scheme is cracked on a laptop” by Jordana Cepelewicz (Quanta Magazine, 2022-08-24). On the cracking of SIDH.
  2. “The untold story of the boldest supply-chain hack ever” by Kim Zetter (WIRED, 2023-05-02).
  3. “Hate passwords? It’s time to try passkeys” by Nicole Ngyuen (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-14).
  4. “Cybersecurity leaders suffer burnout as pressures of the job intensify” by Catherine Strupp (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-17).
  5. “How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI” by Dan Goodin (Ars Technica, 2023-05-10).
  6. “‘Fancy Bear Goes Phishing’ charts the evolution of hacking” (The Economist, 2023-05-17).
  7. “Migration to post-quantum cryptography: Preparation for considering the implementation and adoption of quantum-safe cryptography (preliminary draft)” by William Newhouse et al. (NIST, 2023-04-24).

Economics

  1. “A softer landing on a longer runway?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2023-05-20).
  2. “Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover” (The Economist, 2023-05-16).
  3. “As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance” (The Economist, 2023-05-15).
  4. “Job openings reach record highs in 2022 as the labor market recovery continues” (BLS, 2023-05).
  5. “Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics” (The Economist, 2023-05-18).
  6. “Thus passes Robert Lucas” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-05-16).

Investing

  1. “Young investors in college clubs embrace wild market ride” by Hannah Miao (The Wall Street Journal, 2023-05-20).

Law

  1. “Decoding the U.N. cybercrime treaty” by Paige Collings, Katitza Rodriguez (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2023-04-07).

Mathematics

  1. “The most important machine that was never built” by Sheon Han (Quanta Magazine, 2023-05-03). On the Turing machine.
  2. “How Gödel’s proof works” by Natalie Wolchover (Quanta Magazine, 2020-07-14).

Politics

  1. “The financial system is slipping into state control” (The Economist, 2023-05-18).
  2. “Biden and Schumer voted against debt limit increases during unified GOP government” (Senate Republican Communications Center, 2021-10-04). I include this for its linked references to US Congressional records (statements and votes).

Science and technology

  1. “The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement” (The Economist, 2023-05-15).
  2. “How technology has changed the world since I was young” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-05-15).

Society

  1. “AI to aid democracy” by Henry Farrell, Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier (Slate, 2023-04).

Other

  1. “The morning” by David Leonhardt (The New York Times, 2023-05-15). Subtitled, “The Time’s publisher makes the case for journalistic independence…”
  2. “Journalism’s essential value” by A.G. Sulzberger (Columbia Journalism Review, 2023-05-15).
  3. “Attention shoppers!” by Michael H. Goldhaber (WIRED, 1997-12-01).
  4. “Listen to Kobe: Spend time alone in your head” by Steve Magness (The Growth Equation, 2023-05-18).
  5. “The case for obligation” by Brad Stulberg (The New York Times, 2023-05-20).
  6. “Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-05-18).
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1 February 2023

Read : 2023-01-01

Articles for reference

Cybersecurity

  1. “NIST retires SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm” (NIST, 2022-12-15).

Economics

  1. “Another annus horribilis for the Fed” by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-19).
  2. “Treasury rally to be tested by Fed’s next move” by Sam Goldfarb, Matt Grossman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-19).
  3. “Investors, big-company CEOs split on economic optimism, survey says” by Theo Francis (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-20).
  4. “Is a global recession really around the corner?” by Jeffrey Frankel (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-22).
  5. “Don’t call it a pivot” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-12-15).
  6. “2022 was really weird” by kyla scanlon (kyla’s Newsletter, 2022-12-22).
  7. “The Federal Reserve’s great anti-hero deserves a second look” (The Economist, 2022-12-20).
  8. “Loretta Mester on economic outlook and monetary policy” by Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance (YouTube, 2022-11-10). Talk by Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester.
  9. “Massive government borrowing looms over European markets” by Chelsey Dulaney (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
  10. “Supply chains upended by covid are back to normal” by Esther Fung, Costas Paris, Sharon Terlep (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
  11. “A China optimist’s lament” by Stephen S. Roach (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-22).
  12. “Unlearning the macroeconomic lessons of the 2010s” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2022-12-23).
  13. “The great inflation of the 1500s is echoing eerily today” (The Economist, 2022-12-20).
  14. “Monetary policy in a shortage economy” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-12-24).
  15. “More war means more inflation” by Nouriel Roubini (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-30).
  16. “What does a labor shortage mean?” by Joseph Politano (Apricitas Economics, 2022-12-31).

Investing

  1. “U.S. scores $4 billion windfall on oil-reserve sales” by David Uberti (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-19). Fine by me. (Reduce that national debt!) But right now it’s paper profit. For reference, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) releases, with a two-month delay, ending stocks of crude oil in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
  2. “Individual investors hang on in wild year for stocks while pros sell” by Gunjan Banerji (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-18).
  3. “Why this housing downturn isn’t like the last one” by Ben Eisen, Nicole Friedman (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-18).
  4. “Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery” by Jonathan Weil (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-10).
  5. “Netfllix’s ad-supported tier was its least popular plan, analytics firm estimates” by Sarah Krouse (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-20).
  6. “Market chill opens path for buyout lender Sixth Street’s rise” by Matt Wirz (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
  7. “Six ways to protect your money in 2023” by Imani Moise, Joe Pinsker, Ashlea Ebeling, Veronica Dagher, Anne Tergesen (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-23).
  8. “Wall Street breakfast: Stockings stuffed with stocks” (Seeking Alpha, 2022-12-23). Respondents to Seeking Alpha’s poll generally more upbeat than Wall Street strategists on expected returns from the US stock market in 2023.

Mathematics

  1. “The year in math” by Konstantin Kakaes (Quanta Magazine, 2022-12-22).

Medicine

  1. “Winter surge: SARS-CoV-2, RSV, and the flu” by Dennis Nealon (Harvard Medical School News, 2022-12-16).
  2. “Why loss of smell can persist after covid-19” (Duke Health News Office, 2022-12-21).
  3. “A new variant alert” by Eric Topol (Ground Truths, 2022-12-23). On the XBB.1.5 covid-19 variant.

Politics

  1. “Biden and Congress still haven’t made inflation central in budget matters” by Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-22).
  2. “Sleepwalking into a global trade war” by Anne O. Krueger (Project Syndicate, 2022-12-22).

Science and technology

  1. “The Victorian vision of disruption is a tech bro fantasy” by Swan Rhys Morus (Zócalo, 2022-12-19).
  2. GitHub repository for OSV-Scanner (GitHub).
  3. “Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free” by Mariam Sulakian, Zain Malik (GitHub : Blog, 2022-12-15). Update to GitHub’s secret scanning program.
  4. “The enduring value of an analogue technology” (The Economist, 2022-12-15).
  5. “The third magic” by Noah Smith (Noahpinion, 2023-01-01).

Society

  1. “Keeping up with the Joneses 2.0” by Christina Pazzanese (The Harvard Gazette, 2022-12-16).
  2. “Facebook and the problem of truth” by Clea Simon (Harvard Law Today, 2022-12-15).
  3. “Elon Musk’s $44bn education in free speech” (The Economist, 2022-12-19).
  4. “The morning” by Nicholas Fandos (The New York Times, 2022-12-21). Subtitled, “New York City’s new policy for hospitalizing some people living on the streets has stoked a debate over how America treats the severely mentally ill.”
  5. “Plaintext” by Alan Henry (WIRED, 2022-12-24). On Twitter and Elon Musk.
  6. “Billionaires are a security threat” by Vijith Assar (WIRED, 2022-12-20).

Other

  1. “The end of Netflix password sharing is nigh” by Sarah Krouse, Jessica Toonkel (The Wall Street Journal, 2022-12-21).
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