Link of the day: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts While in London I co-worked on a paper about the…
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Saturday, 08.02.2020 – Why do PISA Results of Immigrant Students Depend so strongly On Country of Origin
Link of the day: Why Do the Results of Immigrant Students Depend So Much on Their Country of Origin and so Little on Their Country…
Thursday, 06.02.2020 – Educated Fools
Link of the day: Why Democratic Leaders Still Misunderstood the Politics of Social Class The Democratic Party has a fundamental problem: Almost none of its…
05.02.2020 – How Sweden, Britain and the US Bent the Law to Suppress Julian Assange
Link of the day: UN special rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer about Julian Assange (German) “Nach Aussagen der betroffenen Frau selber hat es nie eine…
Tuesday, 04.02.2020 – Why Companies Abandon The Development of New Antibiotics
Links of the day: Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too. Recently, I wrote a piece arguing that pharma companies should be…
Sunday 02.02.2020 – How US Lawmakers Profited From the 2017 Tax Cuts
Link of the day: Republicans passed tax cuts — then profited Step 1: Own a lot of stocks and assetsStep 2: Reduce taxes on assets,…
Friday, 31.01.2020 – The Distribution Zoo
Link of the day: The Distribution Zoo This is an online app that allows you to conveniently visualize different distributions and gives you the mean…
Thursday, 30.01.2020 – Can Statisticians Forecast Better than A guy With A Pencil?
Link of the day: Delphi Epicast I am currently working on a master thesis that tries to predict cases of Ebola in Congo. The models…
Monday, 27.01.2020 – Focus on the Right Food to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Not on Eating Local Food
Link of the day: The effects of food choices on climate change The article gives a very interesting overview over what kind of food choices…
Saturday 25.01.2020 – Tracking Cell Phone Data
Link of the day: Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy Locations of cell phone users are not only tracked by governments, secret services and…