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Monday, 23.03.2020 – How Cars Conquered Cities

Link of the day: Did Cars Save Our Cities From Horses? There is an interesting story that cars helped to make cities much cleaner in…

23. March 202023. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Environment, Uncategorized

Sunday, 22.03.2020 – Rethinking Aviation

Link of the day: Why did the half-plane, half-helicopter not work? For quite a while now I have been thinking about green air travel. The…

22. March 202022. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Thursday, 19.02.2020 – A History Of Global Living Conditions

Link of the day: In the long term, global living conditions are improving rapidly Sometimes it is good to keep a positive perspective on the…

19. March 202019. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Uncategorized

Monday, 16.03.2020 – A Very Nice Illustration Of The Effects Of Social Distancing

Link of the day: A simulated outbreak illustration by the Washington Post Nice visual illustration of the effect of different measures to slow down the…

16. March 202015. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Economics

Sunday, 15.03.2020 – A Long Term Econ Perspective On Covid-19

Link of the day: A take on the economics of the virus ) An interesting thought about the long term economic effects of the coronavirus…

15. March 202015. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Saturday, 14.03.2020 – The Gender Pay Gap In An Anonymous Online Market

Link of the day: The gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market The gender pay gap is a subject that is both important…

14. March 202014. March 2020
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Wednesday, 11.03.2020 – How To Improve

Link of the day: 95-percentile isn’t that good Reaching 95%-ile isn’t very impressive because it’s not that hard to do. I think this is one…

11. March 202011. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Economics, Environment

Monday, 09.03.2020 – China’s Economic Slowdown And Effects On The Environment

Link of the day: Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets Over China NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) pollution monitoring satellites have detected significant decreases in nitrogen…

9. March 20207. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts

Saturday, 07.03.2020 – What’s the Best Way To Think About The Spread OF A Pandemic?

Link of the day: Growthers, base-raters and the spread of coronavirus The term growthers refers to the notion of exponential growth, and indeed the number…

7. March 20207. March 2020
Categories Daily Posts, Rationality

Thursday, 05.03.2020 – Coronavirus and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Link of the day: Seeing the Smoke About one to two weeks before the stock market crashed, people I follow on Twitter discussed how a…

5. March 20204. March 2020

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