"Kiffin called the move to $witch $chool$ a 'family deci$ion.'" www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/s...

We're hiring an endowed chair in economic demography--please apply, or pass along to good candidates! apply.interfolio.com/173456

Margaret Renkl's NYTimes essays are such treasures. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

A view of the Sun from the planet Neptune* *Or from the Upper Midwest at this time of year

November 30: The Christmas movies are here.

Go to a gym, press some buttons to have robots lift the weights, then wonder why you’re not any stronger

You can run from counterfactuals but you cannot hide.

This is, IMHO, a splendid essay. "the struggle that forms the core of the human experience, that forces us to think in new ways and encourages us to forge connections with people who might see the world in ways we so far have not" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/o...

Feeling extremely lucky to have dropped off family members at O'Hare yesterday, and hoping that today's travelers manage to get home without too much trouble. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Yet again Roger failed to check the second-order conditions. www.thefarside.com/2025/11/29/1

How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown? —Seamus Heaney, Badgers Words to ponder on this day of gratitude. Happy Thanksgiving.

"to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed" — George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789 www.mountvernon.org/education/pr...

This Thanksgiving I am grateful that we are finally starting to see headlines that read "Congressional Republicans…are openly blasting President Trump"

Were there such a thing as the Journal of Econometric Practice (BTW, there should be) this paper would merit publication as the lead article in volume 1, number 1.

Thanks, John. Marc and I thought this was an important paper to write. It was an issue that has long bothered both of us. Hopefully it helps applied peeps think a bit more carefully about their model.

The 1961 Wall St. Journal Thanksgiving editorial grows more relevant with each passing year. www.wsj.com/opinion/and-...

Hats off to the UW-Madison University Opera for their brilliant production of The Marriage of Figaro. The talent and energy of these young performers and crew never cease to amaze. music.wisc.edu/university-o... @uwmadison.bsky.social

When fixed effects aren't fixed... Important work by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc Bellemare that should influence econometric practice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Family — Jacob Lawrence, 1943. Happy Thanksgiving to all www.moma.org/collection/w...

English doesn’t have a word for “how manyth” — but Dutch and a bunch of other languages do. In Dutch you can ask, “How manyth time were you late this week?” and the answer can be simply “the third.” Check out the whole interview: 🎧 APPLE PODCASTS: bit.ly/4fHkNnw 🎧 SPOTIFY: bit.ly/4oCJju2

Very much looking forward to joining CMS for something wasteful and inappropriate.

Characteristically lucid explanations by Justin Sydnor.

RFK Jr. vs. . . .

"Why Medical Economics?" JAMA, December 9, 1950. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The aluminum in vaccines isn’t foil or metal. It’s a compound of aluminum salts. Rather than doing harm, these adjuvants help shots work better. @celinegounder.com reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Occasional re-up; somehow seems fitting as Thanksgiving week begins. poets.org/poem/weighing

Seeking the perfect holiday gift for your cherished MAGA loved ones?

“This is a find,” [Ton Koopman] said. “Both pieces are very important additions to the repertory of organ. You analyze the pieces and you see that it can only be a great composer. It’s daring music. It’s someone who knows what harmony is.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...

“Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual.”

😤 😡 😖 🤨 🤬 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.

We hope everyone flies free this weekend. BTW, the name Elphaba is a reference to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum.

Italy commemorates the 100th birthday of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (Nov. 20, 1925), largely overlooked in Senator Kennedy's home country. filatelia.poste.it/1000002661-f...

Mr. President: Stop, just stop.

You read that right. The President of the United States has called for execution of legislative opponents .

Hopefully that is broadly correct.

A giant deep-sea isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) filmed by the ROV on Okeanos Explorer at a depth of 810m (2,660 feet). This huge underwater 'pill bug' measures nearly 30cm (almost 1 foot), as indicated by the ROV's red laser dots, spaced 10cm apart. Credit: NOAA

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

If you've lamented the end of the Dark Ages and the ascendancy of the Enlightenment then the Brownstone Institute is for you.

MedPAC's Payment Basics reports have been updated. If you want to know how Medicare pays for health care, these brief summaries are great references. www.medpac.gov/document-typ...

Imagine Calvin having access to ChatGPT.

It is a rare thing to be able to award a $100 million grant but today we do so @macfound.org. I’m thrilled to share the Broad Institute’s Sentinel project is @macfound 100&Change Award Recipient! www.macfound.org/press/press-...

For full effect Bovino should wear one of those Mike Dukakis tank helmets.

"economic triage" www.wsj.com/health/healt...