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March 15, 2024
This week, in lieu of further stories about my three-year-old’s eccentricity, I bring some exciting news: next week, the links are going to get a makeover. This has been in the works for a very long time. We first started talking about it more than a year ago, but with one thing or another, we haven...
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March 08, 2024
Sorry for the lack of links last week: childcare responsibilities trumped reading and musing on the assorted economic and research detritus that was settling on my brain. But what you lost last Friday, you gain today: though I’m going to try and stick to 7 items, as usual, there will be a little mor...
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February 28, 2024
In one new paper, “Toxic Recycling: The Cost of Used Lead-Acid Battery Processing in Mexico”, the authors study the effect of lead-acid battery recycling in Mexico. They find that children exposed to a new source of lead exposure from battery recycling plants score 0.05 - 0.09 standard deviations wo...
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February 23, 2024
Today, my son walked into one of my meetings to demand I dismantle one of his toy trucks (it’s touching how much faith he has in my non-existent facility with tools), and on being told I would do it after the meeting, declared that he would wait for me. He sat down by my chair and started howling at...
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February 22, 2024
Is there a relationship between climate change and conflict? Gyude speaks to Dr. Edward (Ted) Miguel of University of California Berkley about the impact of rising temperatures, extreme droughts, and floods on competition for resources, and how governments can respond to climate change’s compounding...
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February 16, 2024
Last week’s promise to saw the legs off the bed has yet to be implemented. Three immediate constraints presented themselves: first, I need to buy a saw (I wasn’t kidding when I said DIY isn’t my thing); then the little one fell ill, and it seemed cruel to chop the bed down while he was still in it; ...
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February 16, 2024
As African heads of state and government meet for the 37th African Union Summit to discuss “educating and skilling an Africa fit for the 21st century,” they face stark choices forced by a stormy economic environment juxtaposed with urgent educational needs. Although the current climate might require...
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February 09, 2024
An update to last week’s intro: after a solid week of negotiation with my 3-year-old (whom the FBI should hire to conduct hostage negotiations, so good is he at getting his way and wearing down his opponent), we have agreed that the new bed I ill-advisedly constructed for him just before bedtime doe...