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3.22.2019
Occasional Weekend Links
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1) Why pines? 2) " If AST is correct, 300 million years of reptilian, avian, and mammalian evolution have allowed the self-model an...
9.15.2018
Occasional Weekend Links
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1) Neanderthals at sea 2) As if the Industrial Revolution had never happened. 3) “We’re going to be like the Saudi Arabia of freshwat...
3.17.2018
Occasional Weekend Links
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1) A Bayesian take on the Fermi paradox question 2) Non-equilibrium odds for the emergence of life 3) "[I]t is better to find r...
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6.23.2017
Urban Elite Capture and US Growth
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Hsieh and Moretti have a new working paper identifying how land market rigidities and NIMBY ist rent seeking (in both housing and labor m...
6.16.2017
Weekend Links
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1) Round up of recent causal evidence linking lead poisoning to violent crime (above figure shows Kevin Drum's rework of Billings...
6.01.2017
The Lost Returns to Diversity Suppressed
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How much have oppressive norms been hurting US growth? In 1960, 94 percent of doctors and lawyers were white men. By 2010, the fraction w...
5.30.2017
Recent advances in entropies
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The pace of advance in physics the past few decades has been staggering, and is often difficult to convey. This article in the Journal of A...
5.26.2017
Weekend Links
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1) “You really start losing the startup feel when you have thousands of people doing physical labor.” 2) Human behavioral complexity pe...
5.24.2017
Free energy sources in the very long run
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Judson - 2017 - The energy expansions of evolution The history of the life–Earth system can be divided into five ‘energetic’ epochs, each...
9.12.2016
The social and economic impacts of the global climate
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We have a new paper out in Science: Social and Economic Impacts of Climate For centuries, thinkers have considered whether and how cl...
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8.04.2016
Responding to critique of ivory-sale analysis
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I've written an absurdly long (but comprehensive) response to the critique of our paper on elephant poaching induced by legal ivory sal...
7.12.2016
Tipping points and climate change
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A thoughtful review from my coauthor Bob Kopp (who happens to be visiting this week), Gernot , and Jiacan Yuan, a postdoc at the Climate Im...
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6.17.2016
Extended weekend links
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1) How to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. 2) On driverless trucks and universal basi...
6.13.2016
The effect of legal ivory sales on elephant poaching
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Nitin Sekar and I have a new paper out today on the effect of large-scale legal international sales of ivory designed slow poaching of eleph...
6.09.2016
Potentially extreme migrations under climate change
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Adam Sobel and I have a new paper on Potentially Extreme Population Displacement and Concentration in the Tropics Under Non-Extreme Warm...
6.07.2016
Financial market response to extreme events indicating climatic change
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My article " Financial market response to extreme events indicating climatic change " just came out in the "Health, Energ...
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5.09.2016
Children and Climate Change: The Science of Climate Change
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Michael Oppenheimer and I have an overview of the science of climate change in the new Children and Climate Change issue of the open-a...
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4.25.2016
Climate Econometrics
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I have a new working paper out reviewing various methods, models, and assumptions used in the econometrics literature to quantify the impa...
4.13.2016
We're hiring @Berkeley!
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The Global Policy Lab at UC Berkeley is now hiring multiple positions for a major research project at the nexus of environmental res...
4.12.2016
US health inequality
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"The report by Chetty et al also suggests that geography and income percentiles interact in previously unknown ways. For instance, th...
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