Get the Think newsletter.SUBSCRIBEMarch 24, 2019, 3:57 PM GMTBy Ani BundelEven the best creators can have a hard time knowing when to stop. The sequel trap has tripped up many a beloved series, written and…
Midwest Flooding and Climate Change
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. This is a companion piece to yesterday’s “Midwest Flooding, the Corn and Soy Crops, and Knock-On Effects.” In that post, I did not address the planet in the room: climate…
The Economic Cost of Devastating Hurricanes and Other…
By Gary W. Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University. Originally published at The Conversation June marks the official start of hurricane season. If recent history is any guide, it will…
Analysis: Why Alexa’s Bedside Manner Is Bad For…
Yves here. I can’t understand why anyone would trust Amazon with health care data. However, the author’s closing comment is disconcerting, since she appears to be unaware of the fact that electronic medical records are…
‘Gatekeeper Mentality’ of DCCC Blacklist Adding to Divisions…
Jerri-Lynn here. Surprisingly, this Common Dreams post doesn’t include a link to the New York Times article it analyzes, which discusses the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) decision to blacklist vendors who work with anyone who…
Satisfying the great expectations of the middle class
Today, the politics of wealth is contentious in both democracies and non-democracies. It has helped to create both 'millennial socialism' and political populism (Alstadsæter et al. 2017, Ansell and Adler 2019, The Economist 2019). But…
MIB: Covering Fundamental Breakthroughs in Sciences
The Simons Foundation was looking for a new editor for an existing magazine. They had reached out to Thomas Lin, digital editor at The New York Times, for suggestions. Lin thought about who might be…
10 Memorial Day Reads
My morning train reads: • It would be a tragedy to forget what the statistics of war represent. (Washington Post)• Huawei’s Yearslong Rise Is Littered With Accusations of Theft and Dubious Ethics. (WSJ)• The Economy…
MIB: Thomas Lin of Quanta
This week we speak with Thomas Lin, founding editor of Quanta Magazine, an award-winning, editorially independent science and math news site published by the Simons Foundation, which itself is funded by Jim Simons, founder of…