- Richard Dawkins: are Claudia and Claudius conscious?
- Zotero keeps improving. I’ve used it for at least 22 years.
- Why do airlines always go bankrupt? “[W]hichever side of the integer you land on—one firm too many, one firm too few—there is some coalition of firms and customers that can profitably reorganize the market against the existing arrangement. In the language of cooperative game theory, the allocation is always vulnerable to defection by some coalition. The core is empty.” It’s cooperative game theory, says David Oks.
- OECD TALIS 2024: “On average, teachers in the United States spend 73% of class time on teaching and learning. With a one-standard deviation increase in [general pedagogical knowledge], the share of class time spent on teaching and learning increases by 3 percentage-points on average.”
- “The best time for us is when everybody’s looking at their feet and saying, ‘Woe is me, the world’s coming to an end,’” says Henry Kravis as KKR turns 50.

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