Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. I know this week for many of us it’s been hard to pay attention
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. An attempt to measure and rank the most effective ways to reduce CO2 in the
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Through Nov 20, an anonymous donor is doubling donations to my employer, Innovations for Poverty
…Xi is different from Mao in important ways. He has more accurate information than Mao did, thanks to extensive, organized, and professional systems of intelligence
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. In a new study in Science today Cilliers, Dube, & Siddiqi examine the effects of a
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. A few weeks ago I wrote about how the media often stumbles in reporting new
Below are 7 sample essay questions, some with multiple parts. The actual exam will present you with 4 of these questions. You will be asked
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. There’s a new documentary about Ghanaian reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who has gone undercover to
Question 5 is as follows: “Future historians may well write the epitaph of our civilization as follows: From freedom and science came rapid growth and
Back in 1991, Duke finished second to Democrat Edwin Edwards in the state’s multiparty primary. In the ensuing run-off between Duke and Edwards, GOP incumbent Buddy Roemer—the
I decided to overhaul my Master’s level course this year, adding new material and dropping old. I was laboring under the reading and re-reading and
Under Romanian law, prisoners can shave 30 days off their jail terms for every book of scientific value that they have published …While in prison
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. If you saw the new Star Wars movie, the character Nien Nunb is speaking the Kenyan
I meant to blog about many of these individually, but after two months it has not happened, so here is a list of impressions. Not
Peter Singer has a Boston Review piece telling us we should all be “effective altruists”—to make a difference by giving our time and our money,
Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis at Innovations for Poverty Action. Electronic cash payments directly to recipient accounts are thought to help reduce opportunities for corruption.
While watching the roller coaster that is the Russian ruble, I recalled how much I liked this NYRB review of Karen Dawisha’s new book, Putin’s Kleptocracy:
Yesterday I talked about my favorite book of the year. An autobiography. Here are the novels I liked best, excellent for holiday reading or last-minute stocking stuffers. To
Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world’s economic gravity will substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards
If you have not heard it already, one thing you will hear a lot more of in the next decade is not that Africa needs
