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How the workday is changing post-lockdown - Marginal REVOLUTION
Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270 users, we find, compared to pre- pandemic levels, increases in the number of meetings per person (+12.9 percent) and the number of attendees per meeting (+13.5 percent), but...
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Pluto’s dark side spills its secrets — including hints of a hidden ocean
Images of the dwarf planet’s far side are revealing possible signs of liquid water, mysterious shards of ice and new theories for the frigid world’s birth.
How to prevent crime without police and prisons
There are cheaper and less harmful ways to stop a lot of crime happening in the first place.
Nursing home networks and Covid-19 - Marginal REVOLUTION
We construct network measures of nursing home connectedness and estimate that nursing homes have, on average, connections with 15 other facilities. Controlling for demographic and other factors, a home’s staff-network connections and its centrality...
"Zombie cicadas" infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia
After more than a decade underground, "zombie cicadas" emerge to "enlist living insects to do their bidding."
Portland police record highest number of death investigations in single month in more than three decades
Chief Chuck Lovell said he's pulling officers from patrol to assist detectives to do follow-up investigative work into the death investigations. There have been 15 deaths in July, 22 death investigations since May 4, according to police.
CEO stress, aging, and death - Marginal REVOLUTION
We show that increased job demands due to takeover threats and industry crises have significant adverse consequences for managers’ long-term health. Using hand-collected data on the dates of birth and death for more than 1,600 CEOs of large,...
How not to fight modern-day slavery - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: The Slave-Free Business Certification Act of 2020, introduced last week by Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, sounds unobjectionable, maybe even worthy. As the U.S....
Wordsworth's former Somerset home sold to Buddhist charity
A FORMER Somerset home of poet William Wordsworth has been sold for around £2,000,000 - to a Buddhist charity.
US Book Publishing Remains Resilient: Print and Ebook Sales Are Growing | Jane Friedman
As much of the retail world faces crisis, book publishing is positioned to grow in terms of unit sales when compared to 2019. In fact, 2020 may prove to be one of the strongest sales years in recent memory.
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline Snag Biggest Coronavirus Vaccine Deal Yet
The arrangement brings the Trump administration’s investment in coronavirus vaccine projects to more than $8 billion. The head of the federal effort is a former GSK executive.
Association Between US Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US
This population epidemiology study estimates associations of school closures in the US and the timing of those closures in March 2020 with change in daily coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidence and mortality through the first week of May,...
Emergent Ventures India, second cohort of winners - Marginal REVOLUTION
Praveen Mishra Praveen Mishra when he was 16 started the Power of Youth, a non-profit aimed at empowering rural students by giving them mentorship and conducting competitions to highlight their potential. He since has been building a ‘YouTube of...
Health care workers may be less, not more, susceptible to coronavirus, study suggests
Antibodies from infection may not be “the be-all and end-all of immunity against this virus,” says a researcher at Hoag hospital. “There’s another type of immunity that protects y…