Amazon’s Robotic Revolution – Marginal REVOLUTION

My daughter asked me recently why I spend so many evenings on the phone talking about school lunches. I told her about the kids who get their trays taken away. Her face scrunched up in that particular way that children’s faces do when they encounter an injustice so fundamental it cannot be reconciled with their understanding of how the world should work.

“That’s stupid,” she said with 7-year-old clarity. “Why don’t they just let them eat?”

I Paid Off A Utah School’s Lunch Debt: My Journey to Change | HuffPost HuffPost Personal

Paris is doing just fine.

My Paris delta – Marginal REVOLUTION

Sagan got it before anyone else!

I am surprised by how normal France feels.  People want to say “The French this, the French that…” but to me they are fairly Americanized, often speak good English, and have few truly unique cultural habits these days.

They also seem reasonably well adjusted, normal mostly in the good sense, and thus of course somewhat boring too.

Walking and driving through the less salubrious parts of town is a useful corrective, but I do not feel the place is falling apart.

Bordeaux observations – Marginal REVOLUTION

L’expérience, ce petit détail qui change tout.

Pourquoi le fossé se creuse entre les conducteurs de voitures électriques et les autres ?

The first act of the final show…

“You would have been wrong. Everything points to an effort to effectively destroy U.S. science — not gradually as part of a long-term plan, but over the next year or two.”

Nobody Expected the MAGA Inquisition – Paul Krugman

Critical and Emerging Technologies Index | The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

I wonder how many people would put India that far ahead of Israel and Singapore.

Every day we understand the world slightly better. As we do, rules and laws need to develop and change. It’s sad that it’s taken Trump to do this and it’s in an order that I probably disagree with.

The bad science behind expensive nuclear – Works in Progress Magazine

Hopefully, we’ll monitor closely and learn so that we can change our minds again we we learn more.