- China’s Big Brother surveillance has locked down its Uighur people
- Some American governments are slowing retreating from the coasts, as climate change makes “rebuild stronger” impossible.
- Academic economists are catching on to the idea that people work for reasons besides money. Read this, this and this.
- Taking experiments outside the lab and into policy testing
- Gender quotas for politicians are strengthening in Latin America. I endorse this policy as a means of improving women’s rights and policy in general.
- Climate change’s non-linear impacts: collapsing Australian ecosystems and (holy shit) the misery of whales (and other species) suffering from constant human impacts.
- Sci-hub circumvents paywalls, making academic research available to everyone. Aaron Swartz fought for this.
- “Institutional innovation under climate change: A global survey of 96 cities“
- Using blockchain to track and reward farmers for sustainable practices
- The Economist goes back to its liberal roots to defend society against the tyranny of the majority. First up: John Stewart Mill, who supported women’s suffrage (etc.) 50 years before it became fact. My favorite is his defense of free trade (and migration): “It is hardly possible to overrate the value, in the present low state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar.