Hello from a train somewhere between Tashkent and Samarkand! I am having an Authentic Uzbek Experience, by which I mean the train isn’t air-conditioned and shakes a lot;1 please excuse typos.
Asterisk Magazine is hiring a managing editor. I may be biased here - I am one of their more frequent contributors2 - but: excellent magazine, excellent staff, highly recommend.
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: your IVF success rate is largely determined by the age at which the eggs were frozen, not the age at which they were implanted.- writes about the EU Blue Card - and how Europe should use it more
- notes the severe underrepresentation of Africans in US economics departments.3
IFP estimates that pathogen surveillance in the US would only cost ~$80M/year. Seems like an obvious win.
Patient with a common illness doesn’t respond to treatment? There is a 1-3% chance that this is because they actually have a rare monogenic disease instead. To me, this suggests that non-response is probably fairly frequently caused by misdiagnosis, as there are likely many more cases of misdiagnosis that are not from monogenic causes (and thus identifiable in this analysis).
After WWII, a Japanese general was sentenced to ten years in prison for his role in war crimes. He considered this sentence too light, so he built a replica of his prison in his garden and stayed there until his death (another 14 years).
If you count our forecast on severe acute malnutrition as a piece, I’m tied with Scott Alexander and Ozy Brennan at three pieces. I should write Asterisk another piece so I can take the lead.
If you are an African student reading this who is interested in econ, I recommend the GAIN program. It provides mentorship to prospective PhD students from the continent.