2. China’s demographics are not as bad as you might think.
4. Might Russia sell some land to China?
5. Radical claims about batteries.
6. “Using three longitudinal samples of funded and unfunded grant applications from three of the world’s largest funders—the NIH, the NSF, and the Novo Nordisk Foundation—we find that the percentage of promotional language in a grant proposal is associated with the grant’s probability of being funded, its estimated innovativeness, and its predicted levels of citation impact.” Link here.
7. Should Congress preempt state AI legislation?
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Saturday assorted links
1. Notes on Oman. 2. Colin McGinn on best philosopher ever. 3. Owner wants to give away Green Mountain Campus....
Germany projection of the day
Germany’s population is projected to shrink by nearly 5 per cent within 25 years — a significantly steeper decline than...
Minimum wage hikes and robots
This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms’ adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure...
That Was Then/This is Now
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