- After vaccines became available, red states had higher death rates, almost certainly as a result of lower vaccine uptake among Republicans.
- New book show how Chile’s economy became the ”jewel of Latin America.”
- Are workers more productive when they work from home?
- One thing George W. got right: PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives.
- How scientists used AI to find two antibiotics for use against the most antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- mRNA vaccine pioneers win the Nobel Prize. (Shouldn’t’ Trump win as well?)
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- The Board of Tea Experts, established on March 2, 1897, is finally being mothballed.
- Deborah Laufer has filed more than 600 different lawsuits —typically against small hotels — and Laufer accuses them of failing to comply with the federal disabilities law. Will the Supreme Court shut her down?
- Yglesias: Loneliness isn’t aloneness. And contra Nicholas Kristof, it is highly correlated with low incomes.
- Tyler Cowen: ten ideas on reducing the number of single parent families.
Tuesday Links
- David Friedman update on what we know about covid.
- CVS Health and Cigna can charge $6,600 or more per month for the cancer drug Gleevec, a medication that went generic in 2016 and can be found for as little as $55 per month. (WSJ)
- Is telehealth a boon or a threat to rural health care.
- The reading list for Greg Mankiw’s Harvard seminar.
- HA study of people in the fifties: quality-adjusted life expectancy increased for the upper-middle economic group, but remained stagnant for the lower-middle group.
Tuesday Links
- Labor Day good news: the number of hours worked per year, per worker has fallen by more than one-third over the last century.
- As your hourly wage rises, so does the opportunity cost of leisure.
- NYT on the reason A.I. is an existential threat: it will usher in an new era of neoliberalism.
- Almost 20 scholars offer remedies for revitalizing conservatism. A bird’s eye view suggests they all want us to stand athwart history and yell, “STOP.”
- Enslaved Africans were responsible for introducing the practice of smallpox inoculation throughout the Americas by the 1700s. Interesting, but speculative.
- Even the proponents of colonoscopies and breast cancer screening think they only lower cancer death by 20%. HT: Arnold Kling