- In Defense of the Thesaurus for writers.
- Why it’s so hard to scale up new materials
- Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings (NYT)
- What’s the Matter with India
- How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future (NYT)
- China is almost single handedly driving the global green electricity transition
- Is the U.S. in a “high-level equilibrium trap”?
- In pro-military Nebraska, a lawmaker’s stand over Hegseth tests the GOP (Wash Post)
- ‘Sesame Street,’ Facing Crisis, Signs New Deal With Netflix (NYT) – Show will also air on PBS again.
- Scott Sumner on why tariffs won’t cause much inflation but are still bad
- Rare Earths Plants Are Popping Up Outside China (WSJ)
- Trump’s Retreat Still Leaves Tariffs at 90-Year Highs
- What Are the Most Popular Baby Names in the U.S.?. I wouldn’t have guessed any of these.
- Malaria: One of the leading causes of child deaths, but progress is possible…
- When Pol Pot Read a Book on Marx
- I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here’s what it taught me
- America’s College Towns Go From Boom to Bust (WSJ)
- NIST set its new atomic clock in motion, and it’s astoundingly precise (Wash Post)
- Megan McArdle on the calm before the AI storm (Wash Post)
- Space Force official: Commercial satellites can do a lot more than we thought
- Do More Powerful Unions Generate Better Pro-Worker Outcomes?
- How ancient India changed the world (Wash Post)
- Through the Eye of the Storm: Post-Hurricane Migration in Florida’s Panhandle
- Remote Work, Employee Mix, and Performance
- The Snob Effect, Bandwagon Effect and Financial Behavior: A Comparative Study among Spanish and Turkish Students I’m familiar with bandwagon effect but snob effect is new to me.
- A peek into the big, wide world of miniatures
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson