How Supermodels Are like Toxic Assets
by Ashley Mears (Photo: Coco Rocha in Bill Blass by Peter Som February 2008, Photographed by Ed Kavishe for Fashion Wire Press, and is licensed under creative commons.) In 2002,…
Capernaum 何以为家
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents…
Gendercide – The war on baby girls
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…
Stream Free Online 200 Films from Tribeca Film Festivals
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…
Firefighting: A Plea for Discretion
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…
Video games probably aren’t bad for boys, but it’s a different story for girls
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…
Frank Lichtenberg and the cost of saving lives through pharmaceuticals
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…
Quantum Computing Explained — It’s Rocket Science
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…
GF Securities Hong Kong Chief Tang Xiaodong Resigns From Firm
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…