For my wedding anniversary, I designed and had hand-woven in Afghanistan a rug for my microbiologist wife. The rug mixes traditional Afghanistan designs with some scientific elements including Bunsen burners, test tubes, bacterial petri dishes and other elements. I started...
Everyone talks about the soaring cost of child care (e.g. here, here and here), but have you looked at the soaring cost of...
That is from the French embassy in the UK. The post D’accord ! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link...
In The Sputnik vs. DeepSeek Moment I pointed out that the US response to Sputnik was fierce competition. Following Sputnik,...
Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less...
About Me Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University....
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant...
Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages...
By Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page. Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck:...
I’ve long advocated selling off some federal land—an idea that reliably causes mass fainting spells among the enlightened. How could...
