Fight Entropy

"The report by Chetty et al also suggests that geography and income percentiles interact in previously unknown ways. For instance, th...

Typhoon Haiyan as seen from space, Copyright 2013 JMA/EUMETSAT Last spring Sol and I finished up the working paper version of our paper...

Effects of Rural Sanitation on Infant Mortality and Human Capital: Evidence from India's Total Sanitation Campaign Dean Spears Abstr...

Two recent papers have come out demonstrating that Google searches can provide extraordinarily rich data for forensic epidemiologists: ...

Jesse and I both come from the Sustainable Development PhD Program at Columbia  which has once again turned out a remarkable crop of job mar...

I found this gem in the American Journal of Public Health. If you apply a mental "find-replace" to any of many industries, this s...

Apropos of last week's post on aggression , Marshall's post on temperature extremes , and this blog's alternate name , please se...

I ran into this 2008 paper doing hurricane work with Jesse. The results are not extremely surprising, but I really liked how they displayed ...

[This is a guest post by first year students in Columbia's Sustainable Development program] As part of their coursework for the Huma...

Image credit: Mighty Optical Illusions ( moillusions.com ) I'd normally put something like this in the weekend links roundup, but it...

Columbia's Jerry Shaman * and Harvard's Marc Lipsitch  have a new paper out in PNAS that argues that La Niña events may be drivi...

Geoff Johnston , a doctoral candidate at Columbia's PhD in Sustainable Development , is on the team behind this recent study in PNAS....