Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Category Assorted Links
Assorted Links for Sunday
- Power, Prestige & Ottoman Culture Wars
- The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology (WSJ)
- The US Dollar isn't broken yet
- When They Stop Selling Your Favorite Thing (NYT)
- Corruption in Plain Sight is Still Very Much Corruption
- The Rising Temperature of the Mediterranean Sea
- 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest - and it wasn't ChatGPT (Wash Post)
- A world built on fossil fuels is loud. Here's how advocates are defending peace and quiet
- The US Navy's five roads to ruin
- What's a healthy amount of sleep? It differs from one country to another
- Mapping space: Largest map of the universe announced
- How Ukraine's Operation "Spider's Web" Redefines Asymmetric Warfare
- The Russian Wartime Economy: From Sugar High to Hangover
- Why human experts may be useful for longer than you think
Assorted Links for Saturday
- No one voted for anything Immigration version.
- The End of Silicon Politics
- China's rare earth weapon changes contours of trade war battlefield
- The Global Trend in Indigenous Community Recognition
- Some Economics of Africa's Struggle
- J'accuse - Further thoughts on the Great Recession
- Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people (Wash Post)
Assorted Links for Friday
- Why child benefits should be front loaded
- The Up Wing combo of AI and energy
- Fewer than half (43%) of US adults support federal funding for NPR and PBS. But it is much higher than the 24% in favor of removing federal funding.
- Inside the Ukranian Drone Operation That Devastated Russia's Bomber Fleet (WSJ)
- Early-Onset Cancer Fast Facts
- How the world's first electric grid was built
- The U.S. Credit Rating and the Dollar
- Drones
- The Implications of Non-Linear Pricing
Assorted Links for Thursday
- OECD Cuts U.S. Growth Forecast Over Tariffs, Policy Uncertainty
- Factory Activity Weakens in Asia, Rises in U.S. & Europe
- Debt Distress on China's BRI: Who Gets Bailed Out and Why?
- Is There a Tariff End Game?
- Think of It as Generating Our "Investment Surplus", Not as Our "Trade Deficit"
- How Often is AI Depicted in Movies, and How Frequently is it the Villain? A Statistical Analysis
Assorted Links for Wednesday
- China's 'Vanishing' Data Can't Hide Its Economic Slowdown
- The beauty of concrete
- The Steep Price of Declining Civility
- What really happened in 2008
- How Chinese drones could defeat America
- China is falling into deflation
- Trump promised to bring jobs to the Rust Belt. The Sun Belt may get them instead. (CSM)
- 5 scientists on finding meaning in our Universe's 13.8-billion-year story
- No AI, no job. These companies are requiring workers to use the tech. (Wash Post)
Assorted Links for Tuesday
- Why the US-UK trade deal might make both countries poorer
- What Europeans hold dear (CSM)
- AI: To Steer or Not To Steer
- The Fedgling Ideological Deep State Burrowing into the State Department
- The world of tomorrow
- Greece replacing coal with wind and solar
- U.S. Goods Trade Deficit Drops Sharply After Pre-Tariff Surge
Assorted Links for Monday
- The Gem of a Town in North Carolina That Powers the World's Tech (NYT)
- I Say Thank You to Big Pharma
- Solar storm has reached Earth, could bring auroras to U.S. South (Wash Post)
- Competing and complementary regions in US foreign policy
- How China Could Counter U.S. Intervention in War Over Taiwan
- Needing Dollars, Iran-Backed Militias Turn to Visa and Mastercard (WSJ)
- Robotic table tennis system predicts ball trajectory and adapts swing in real time
- The effects of global populism assessing the populist impact on international affairs
- Secrets of a Lost Empire's Mysterious 200-Mile "Gobi Wall" Finally Revealed
- How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science
- What initial jobless claims may say about the economy
- Hybrid vehicle sales continue to rise as electric and plug-in vehicle shares remain flat
- How Export Restrictions Threaten Economic Security
- Americans' Views on How to Address the Impacts of Extreme Weather
- Going to an office and pretending to work: A business that's booming in China
- How Georgists Valued land in the 1900's
Assorted Links for Sunday
- It's Waymo's World. We're All Just Riding in It. (WSJ)
- Effectiveness of Shadow Fleet Sanctions
- A San Francisco Plaza Was Down and Out. Then Skaters Moved In. (NYT)
- AI helps researchers discover several previously unknown molecules
- Americans don't trust these news sources - but they keep using them (Wash Post)
- 250 Million Honeybees Escape After a Truck Rolls Over in Washington State (NYT)
- Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States
- Scientists Capture Sharpest Images Ever of Sun's Corona
- Most new cars in Norway are EVs. How a freezing country beat range anxiety. (Wash Post)
- Landslides Leave Big Sur's Beloved Landmarks Fighting for Survival (WSJ)
- The Mathematical Mysteries of Fireflies
- The Champions League's Global Appeal is Paying Off
- Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies
- An Escape to Rurality
- An Introduction to Natural Disaster Economics
- The Role of Economics on the Road to Autonomous Vehicles and Digital Mobility
Assorted Links for Saturday
- America Let Its Military-Industrial Might Wither. China's Is Booming. (WSJ)
- What are international dollars?
- The Hunt For Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Offers Up A Surprise (Barrons)
- Evolutionary Models of Fertility
- Soaring Costs Expose a Trans-Atlantic Chocolate Divide (WSJ)
- The U.S. loses most international graduates it trains. That problem is about to get worse.
- Eagle Pass, Texas, once boiled with border crossings. Now it's quiet. (CSM).
- Whatever Happened to Arms Control?
- Service Costs aren't exploding anymore
- What is the Biggest Threat to Fed Independence?
- The End Kidney Deaths Act
- Global Tobacco Use Is Steadily Declining. Here is a more about the US smoking patterns using a different metric. Finally, there is an astonishing gender gap among smokers in Asia
- Reviving Factory Jobs is an Expensive Illusion
- Our Gutenberg Moment
- Taylor Swift Buys Her Early Master Recordings, Gaining Control of First Six Albums (WSJ)
- Economics or Populism? The Battle for the Future of Antitrust
- Does AI Prediction Scale to Decision Making?
- Place Based Economic Development and Tribal Casinos
- Are You Treating ChatGPT Better Than Your Coworkers?
- It's not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change.
- The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist. You can find the report itself here.
- The creativity hack no one told you about: Read the obits