https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/03/04/gendercide Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising IMAGINE you are one half of a young couple expecting your first child in a…

http://www.openculture.com/2019/04/stream-free-online-200-films-from-tribeca-film-festivals.html FYI: The Tribeca Film Festival is getting underway today. And to mark the occasion, Kanopy is showcasing a lineup of 200 titles from past festivals and letting you stream them free…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/firefighting-a-plea-for-discretion.html Firefighting, the new primer on the financial crisis by the all-star team of Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Henry Paulson (BGP), is a well written, short overview of the…

Plenty of parents fret over their children’s undying love of video games. Do interactive games like Fortnite and World of Warcraft inhibit kids’ ability to hold normal human conversations? Do…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/04/frank-lichtenberg-and-the-cost-of-saving-lives-through-pharmaceuticals.html Humans are living longer, better lives thanks to innovations in prescription drugs over the past three decades, according to several new studies by Frank Lichtenberg, the Courtney C. Brown…

https://hackernoon.com/quantum-computing-explained-its-rocket-science-55d7766edac2 A couple of years ago, I thought Quantum Mechanics was a bunch of theoretical science with no real world applications: Not anymore In recent years, we’ve seen the emergence of…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-15/gf-securities-hong-kong-chief-tang-xiaodong-resigns-from-firm GF Securities Co. said Monday the head of its Hong Kong unit has resigned from the firm, after losses rocked one of its hedge funds. Tang Xiaodong, who joined…

https://www.economist.com/china/2019/04/13/many-chinese-suffer-discrimination-based-on-their-regional-origin Life is often hard for internal migrants in China, especially those from Henan and the north-east Apr 11th 2019 THE SCHOOLCHILDREN started to vomit. Some fell unconscious and were…

https://qz.com/work/1589513/how-to-handle-crying-at-work/ If you’ve ever cried at work, you may be able to relate to the recent Saturday Night Live sketch “PowerPoint.” In it, a pair of receptionists played by Aidy…