weekly link roundup
Sarah Constantin has a very interesting post on looking for broad-spectrum anti-cancer drugs.
My friend Peter Evans is hiring in political economy
The well-being effects of social media and the Internet are… debatable, at best, but it seems that immigrants are happier when internet access in their home country improves
Jason Kerwin has a great talk on why USAID was (is?) a great brand
Until 1853, Berlin had a minimum height requirement for buildings. Excellent idea, let’s bring it back.
The author of the above tweet, Samuel Hughes, also has an interesting piece on ornament on buildings - though I disagree with him on many aesthetic things,1 this is interesting!
Specifically, I think brutalism is great and McMansions are ugly. My hometown - Southlake, TX - has many very fancy, very expensive houses with quite a lot of ornament that I think are hideous.