🆕 Malaria is not just a health crisis, it is an economic crisis
Today on VoxDev, Minki Kim (Economics department, University of Mannheim.) discusses how eradicating malaria could deliver much larger economic gains in sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed: https://ow.ly/JWuR50YrINw
🆕 Rethinking the agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters
Today on VoxDev, Rajveer Jat (Western Digital) & Bharat Ramaswami (Ashoka University) find that India's agricultural productivity gap is largely a formal-informal sector divide: https://ow.ly/mgAk50YrHP4
Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)
I see your TACO and raise you STAR:
Some
Things
Aren’t
Reversible
The Ohio State University is expected to close ranks and replace him with his hard-line son, further straining an already highly volatile situation in a region that has seen constant conflict over the past several decades
Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.
@goldenstatewarrior.bsky.social's Coach Steve Kerr is standing up for campus freedom!
Coaches across the nation launched a letter campaign calling on elected officials to keep political interference out of our colleges and universities.
We can't have college sports without academic freedom.
Hélène Mouchard-Zay, tireless advocate for the memory of Vichy regime victims, has died
The White House meeting comes as Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg has been leading Pentagon work in recent days on a supplemental budget request of around $50 billion that could be released as soon as Friday, one of the people said. The new money would pay for replacing the weapons used in recent conflicts including those in the Middle East. The figure is preliminary and could change.
USAID was simply too expensive to continue but
Kibble is kibble. This is what I make for my dog and my wife makes fun of me for putting in spices and garlic so it tastes good for the dog.
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
Economists: we award Nobel Prizes for work on efficient institutions and minimizing transaction costs.
Also Economists: the review process at the American Economic Review.
I have killed
the senior leadership candidates
that were in
Iran
and which
you were probably
saving
for post-regime change
Forgive me
they were irresistible
so right there
and so bombable
i’ll just keep posting variations on elementary human decency, not that it matters
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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With all the craziness in the world today, I just wanted to say one thing..
Season your eggs AFTER cooking, not during. The flavor is much better and the salt won’t break down the egg proteins as much.
🇺🇸 🏒 Captain hilary knight : “The joke was distasteful & unfortunate— Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior. It's not my responsibility… It’s a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats.”
Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.
Their stories should be known:
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For reference: A schematic of the ship Brooks which was used to transport enslaved people in the Middle Passage
In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.
Every Jewish mom texting her family group chat this morning some variation of “Did you know Jack Hughes is half Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah?!”
Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative
They said they’d rather die from violence than hunger.
A year after USAID was cut, the outlook and death toll is the most brutal of Trump’s achievements to date.
The following 3 part video from @propublica.org looks deeper.
Part one/
Right. The coverage shouldn’t be that the Roberts Court did the right thing today—but that it protected Trump, in clear violation of the law, for over a year.
SCOTUS could and should have stopped the tariffs a year ago.
Instead it allowed Trump lawlessness.
Pritzker’s invoice to White House:
(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov
Chart of the day
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative
