What to Watch (or Not): Ballard, Perfect Days, Billy Joel
Ballard (Amazon Prime) — I liked Bosch, so I had high hopes for this spinoff. The core premise—a team of
Genius, Rejected: Emergent Ventures Versus the System
Quanta Magazine has a good piece on a 17-year-old student who disproved a long-standing conjecture in harmonic analysis: Yet a paper
The economics of the U.S. auto industry, a brief history
From Adam Ozimek: The economic value of the cars being made has climbed substantially through the years. As a result,
Design Your Own Rug!
For my wedding anniversary, I designed and had hand-woven in Afghanistan a rug for my microbiologist wife. The rug mixes
The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care
Everyone talks about the soaring cost of child care (e.g. here, here and here), but have you looked at the soaring cost of
Coffee Break: Fossil Fuels and Health, EPA, AI that Works, and a Belated Retraction
Part the First: The Healthcare Costs of Fossil Fuels. One would think this is a no-brainer. Nevertheless, the Current Administration
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Poison Gas
Before our current age of nuclear war anxiety, there was widespread concern about an earlier terrifying weapon of mass destruction:
D’accord !
That is from the French embassy in the UK. The post D’accord ! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link
Elon Musk Squeezing SpaceX and Tesla for xAI investment
Elon Musk, Earth’s wealthiest human, is leveraging his business empire to invest in his xAI play. SpaceX has ponied up
Technology Transfer and Development Economics
Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less