- Mississippi has improved children’s reading skills… by teaching better
- Read: When Are We OK with Getting Bribed?
- Read about industrial scale catfishing (tech workers posing as potential lovers to get lonely people to pay for attention)
- Read how Russia killed its tech industry
- Read a big, World Bank report: The Economics of Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa (my recent paper on post-water political economy touches on the same issues).
- Read a convincing argument in favor of public housing in the US.
- Read about the scams used by the “we buy houses fast” people.
- Read about Temu, a Chinese cheap good company trying to buy market share (losing $millions) in the US.
- London’s waste is rising from its historic dumps, spoiling lands and waters with toxicity.
- Read: A Masters of Beef Advocacy [MBS!?] program teaches ‘scientific sounding’ arguments on cattle’s sustainability in an all-out public relations war
H/T to DG