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Phil Costa
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FT: The perfect away day. Elland Road is a tough place to go but we weathered the early storm and stamped our authority on the game. There was real pressure on Arsenal today but they dealt with it perfectly. Madueke impactful, goals for Gyokeres and Jesus, and our bouncers at the back very solid.
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Global poverty trends from a new lens
Global poverty trends look radically different depending on the poverty line used. A new measure that doesn’t depend on ‘lines’ – the average time needed to earn a dollar – shows that global poverty has fallen sharply, by about 55% since 1990. This was driven mainly by income growth in East Asia.
https://voxdev.org/topic/methods-measurement/global-poverty-trends-new-lens
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‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society
Expertise comes with training, experience and accreditation. And expert consensus is the best guide modern democracies have for making decisions about complicated challenges.
https://theconversation.com/expertise-shouldnt-be-a-bad-word-expert-consensus-guides-science-and-society-271467
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Gábor Békés
8 days ago
Vibe coding kills open source. Our most direct title yet.
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Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at
arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494
Comments welcome.
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Belinda Archibong
28 days ago
Presenting our paper with
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@chinemeluokafor.bsky.social
and Ajuwon on Monday in the 10:15am session
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, in case anyone wants to come listen to research on the effects of women's protests on gender gaps in political participation
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The Nigerian cement industry is a cartel operating in plain sight. Here's how to fix it
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FG Needs Holistic Budget Reform
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David Evans
about 2 months ago
Cash doesn't accomplish everything, but it does help kids out of poverty, which is a pretty big thing.
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Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
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Is AI making us stupid? – podcast | Science | The Guardian
Artificial intelligence can execute tasks in seconds that once took humans hours, if not days to complete. While this may be great for productivity, some researchers are concerned that our increasing use of AI could be impacting our ability to tackle difficult problems and think critically. To find out where the science stands, and how worried we should be about the potential of AI to change how we think, Ian Sample hears from Madeleine Finlay and Sam Gilbert, professor of neuroscience at University College London
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2025/dec/02/is-ai-making-us-stupid-podcast
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Bigger Than Me - This American Life - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · This American Life · 12/07/2025 · 58m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-american-life/id201671138?i=1000739981524
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AI may finally force academic publishing to reform itself.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
about 2 months ago
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
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Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/congestion-pricing-improved-air-quality-nyc-and-suburbs
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Opinion | Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing. - The New York Times
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010545598/dynamic-pricing-algorithms.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Adam Chapman
2 months ago
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
https://theconversation.com/we-built-a-database-of-290-000-english-medieval-soldiers-heres-what-it-reveals-270750
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VoxDev
2 months ago
🆕 Rethinking food security in a risky globalised world Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos and Fernando Leibovici show that when trade becomes riskier, some of the traditional gains of globalisation disappear:
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Rethinking food security in a risky globalised world
When trade disruptions threaten access to food, importers face a hard choice between openness and insurance.
https://voxdev.org/topic/trade/rethinking-food-security-risky-globalised-world
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Dr. Thrasher's The Overseer Class is now available for pre-order
2 months ago
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day,
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is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings.
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Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/01/world-aids-hiv-trump-cuts-unemployment-lgbtq/
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crippling unhip deformity
2 months ago
Saved you a click: You need a head to live.
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Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
https://www.science.org/content/article/headless-bodies-hint-why-europe-s-first-farmers-vanished
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‘Ignoring minorities is our original sin’: the complex roots of Nigeria’s security crisis | Africa | The Guardian
Criminal exploitation, economic opportunism and religious persecution are all factors in a broader picture of insecurity
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/26/ignoring-minorities-is-our-original-sin-the-complex-roots-of-nigerias-security-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Rachel Savage
2 months ago
More details on the coup in Guinea-Bissau, mainly relying on the excellent reporting of AFP and Reuters reporters on the ground
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Guinea-Bissau officers take ‘total control’ and close borders amid election chaos
Gunshots heard near state buildings as incumbent president and main rival claim victory in first round of elections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/26/guinea-bissau-officers-take-total-control-close-borders-amid-election-chaos
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Rachel Savage
2 months ago
Another coup in Guinea-Bissau (I couldn't find a complete list, but there've been several). This time, it looks like it was successful. AFP reports soldiers said they were taking "total control" of the country, suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after elections
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Nigeria’s problem is bigger than Trump thinks
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Its government is failing to protect everyone, not only Christians
https://www.ft.com/content/e0f05941-8a5d-40c2-9d36-7aaf164e10f2
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Brazil is embracing its African roots
It is the country that imported by far the largest number of African slaves
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/11/24/brazil-is-embracing-its-african-roots
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Cash transfers and agency in Nigeria | VoxDev
In Nigeria, cash transfers to women increase their desire for agency but only when husbands can't see it – revealing the complex interplay between economic empowerment and social norms.
https://voxdev.org/topic/social-protection/cash-transfers-and-agency-what-nigerian-couples-reveal-about-household
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NPR
2 months ago
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
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'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
https://n.pr/4pt2A0r
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VoxDev
2 months ago
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children:
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How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
https://voxdev.org/topic/education/how-public-education-transforms-opportunity-evidence-1870-education-act
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Reuters
2 months ago
Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality
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Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality
Sitting in his lakeside villa in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Borger Borgenhaug misses his grandchildren and the smell of the Nordic sea on a clear summer night.
https://reut.rs/4iid1BT
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arseblog
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There have been numerous reports about misinformation farms in many developing countries including Nigeria. Low labour costs plus cheap internet I guess.
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Mark Histed
2 months ago
The Twitter algorithms create these trolls. If Musk wanted to fight back on misinformation on Twitter he could do so in a moment. But he likes it. This is why we should leave Twitter: it’s designed to influence us. In a bad way. And in the future we need policy solutions— 1/
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The Continent
2 months ago
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 221 of The Continent Nigeria’s security crisis deepens: 26 girls abducted in Kebbi State, more kidnappings elsewhere, and a top general killed — symptoms of a long-running, underfunded, corruption-riddled breakdown. More inside:
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Insecurity and the cost of politics | TheCable
In the words of an anonymous author, “I love politics. It’s politicians I can’t stand.” Alas, there can’t…
https://www.thecable.ng/insecurity-and-the-cost-of-politics/
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The Continent. Always on point.
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world | Childbirth | The Guardian
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
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DOGE Laid Off the Humans. Now the IRS Is Deploying AI Agents
Get ready for a bot to hallucinate your tax bill.
https://gizmodo.com/doge-laid-off-the-humans-now-the-irs-is-deploying-ai-agents-2000689563
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Holly Brewer
2 months ago
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540
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Geothermal’s time has finally come | The Economist
This source of energy could become bigger than nuclear
https://www.economist.com/interactive/science-and-technology/2025/11/18/geothermal-time-has-finally-come?utm_content=ed-picks-image-link-6&etear=nl_today_6&utm_campaign=r.the-economist-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=11/19/2025&utm_id=2122592
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LEAD IN THEIR BLOOD: How battery recyclers are poisoning Nigerians | TheCable
BY OLADEINDE OLAWOYIN AND FOLASHADE OGUNRINDE Around 10 a.m. on the sunny Friday morning of 17 September, about…
https://www.thecable.ng/lead-in-their-blood-how-battery-recyclers-are-poisoning-nigerians/
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Dominique Baker
3 months ago
The one group who could entice me to consider myself an economist (still not one). If I'm trying to catch up on the latest research in econ, I visit this page and see, at the bottom, what working papers have come out.
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Johnny Ryan
3 months ago
As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal. Piece by George Riekeles and I.
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The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/eu-gdpr-data-law-us-tech-giants-digital
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EHSSA
3 months ago
CfP: What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century? Deadline: 27 November 2025 Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century? | Economic Research Southern Africa
Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), in collaboration with the Economic History Society of South Africa (EHSSA), is pleased to announce a two-day confe ...
https://econrsa.org/events/what-can-history-teach-us-about-building-resilient-economies-in-the-21st-century/
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Okpebholo revokes Edo museum C-of-O, restores site to hospital | TheCable
Monday Okpebholo has revoked the certificate of occupancy (C-of-O) previously granted to the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA).
https://www.thecable.ng/okpebholo-revokes-edo-museum-c-of-o-restores-site-to-hospital/
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The Economist
3 months ago
If everyone has a virtual friend in their pocket that is always ready to take their side, this could create “personal echo chambers of validation” in which they are not challenged to think for themselves, argues an AI expert
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A new industry of AI companions is emerging
It may have profound implications for society and what it means to be human
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Our World in Data
3 months ago
There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries
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David Evans
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What drove poverty changes in Latin America & the Caribbean over the last decade?
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Employment and earnings growth: 37 percent Public transfers: 23 percent (Data from 13 countries)
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"Fixing the Earth by throwing lots of stuff into the sky is maybe not our best-ever idea, tbh" -
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‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals | Sweden | The Guardian
A pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/if-theres-a-free-alternative-ill-eat-healthily-how-sweden-devised-brilliant-school-meals
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Premium Times
3 months ago
ANALYSIS: Nine key factors that may influence 2025 Anambra governorship poll
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Phil Costa
3 months ago
Gabriel Jesus back in full training, is it?
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