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1. Mikhail Fishman, The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin, and the Decline of Modern Russia. One of the best books to read on how Russia moved from “had some democratic elements in place” to autocracy, on a step-by-step basis.…

1. Chinese modular innovation. 2. “Are you an emerging scholar passionate about scientific discovery and innovation, and interested in joining a community of classical liberal scholars for a year? We’d love to hear from you.…

Justin Weinberg at Daily Nous riffs off my post, Ideas Behind Their Time, to ask for philosophical examples. He nominates Gettier problems–i.e. counterexamples to the idea that knowledge is simply “justified true belief” as a possibility.…

When asked what secondary literature Nolan consulted in working on his epic magnum opus masterpiece, he said none. None save Benardete’s The Bow and the Lyre. “It was my muse” —Christopher Nolan, @RollingStone , April 2026. Here is the link.

Have school start later: We examine the impact of California’s Senate Bill 328 (SB 328), the first statewide mandate requiring later school start times for middle and high schools, on adolescent sleep, mental health, and academic outcomes.…

From Brennan Plaetzer: Hi Tyler, Your post yesterday argued AI will replace papers with meta-papers that synthesize, re-run, and extend prior work. I built one in oncology last month, before reading your post.…

From Google News - World: Stephen I. Miran submits his resignation as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, effective when or shortly before his successor on the Board is sworn in - Federal Reserve (.gov)

Outside of Sloan and the EECS MEng program, still in the midst of admissions, compared with 2024, our departments’ new enrollments for next year are down close to 20%.…

1. Sweden is becoming more market-oriented (WSJ). 2. “More business schools are giving steep discounts on tuition that can save students up to 50%, or tens of thousands of dollars a year.” (WSJ) 3.…

Every US president since Nixon has called for freeing the US from ‘dependence on foreign oil’ (within ten years!). Every president has failed. Fracking, however, has delivered the goods.…

The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments.…

Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Bob Spitz has written major biographies of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, and now the Rolling Stones — but also, somehow, Ronald Reagan and Julia Child.…

All three are from Queens College, I thought they did a great job, and mostly fresh material. They describe the episode as such: Xavier, Tristan, and Nick talk about everything interesting under the sun, including aesthetic convergence, the probability…

1. On Pettis and sectoral imbalances. 2. Is this where the Flynn Effect went? 3. Compute futures have arrived? 4. Redoing Dulles? 5. Why restrict stablecoins? 6. Scott Wu of Cognition. 7.…

I do not find the mass unemployment hypothesis persuasive, and I have covered this extensively in the past. But here are three other problems which may end up being noticeable in the short run, though likely absent longer term: 1.…

While on a retirement community field trip, a group of ageing ex-Hollywood stars encounter a baby KAIJU on the run from military agents. Bonding quickly with the creature, the cantankerous cadre of former celebrities have to somehow get the kaiju to…

Sorrow and guilt linger in the wake of the massacre, but not all lives are lost . . . To prevent another tragedy, Geralt returns to the dwarven caves, but where human desire spawned bloodthirsty greed, what awaits is a new danger.…

While on a retirement community field trip, a group of ageing ex-Hollywood stars encounter a baby KAIJU on the run from military agents. Bonding quickly with the creature, the cantankerous cadre of former celebrities have to somehow get the kaiju to…

Frons and Zuzu are brought back to Hell to receive retribution for their actions on Earth, but things don’t go quite as expected. In this series finale, Frons has a decision of biblical proportions to make . . .…

THE POWER SWORD, a weapon able to access the power and wisdom of Grayskull, was forged by the most powerful sorcerer in the Universe—HE-RO. It was ordained that the sword would be given to a great champion to protect the Realm in times of need.But He-Ro…