9am EST Easter Mass conflicted with the Liverpool-Brighton Game. 11am Easter Mass conflicts with the 11am Arsenal-City game. Happy Easter, fellow North American football fans who celebrate Easter!

This is a story about falling victims to the most brazen bank fraud yet, proudly facilitated by #Rogers —Canada’s cellphone behemoth—and #CIBC —Canada’s major bank. Rogers @CIBC Toronto Star The Globe and Mail RCMP

No matter what you think of the Ford government, if they fix our disastrous math education, they will boost Ontario’s productivity for decades to come. thespec.com/opinion/contri…

With some pride I can announce that according to Russian media, my employer the Munk School has been listed as an undesirable NGO by the Russian government.
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I’m a practicing Christian but after watching five soccer games in Italy from U14 to Seria A this week, I’m wondering if the Resurrection is such a miracle after all

Lots of people suddenly discovering Butler's Jihad. 'How timely! How prescient!'
You should all read more Sci-fi. A good part of it is about how we deal with new technology when we're stuck with the same old humans.

Canadian oligarchs, not content with oligopolies, now want to help themselves to your pension fund
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Yes, we have other priorities, but a Manhattan Project to develop a vaccine against the common cold would pay itself many times over in terms of productivity.

Would have made a great empirical economist

I would also like to remind everyone that we must turn out massively for this movie, so that we can eventually get a movie where a giant CG worm lectures Jason Momoa on political philosophy for three or four hours 🙏

My wife just wondered if her flat iron would work in Japan because its 120V/60Hz and I said 'yes, you're going to Kansai not Tokyo,' and that was the first time all these courses and books on Japanese economic history in my undergrad had any practical benefit.

In a paper titled 'The Myth of Man the Hunter' Anderson et al. (2023) claimed to discover that women hunt in 79% of hunter-gatherer societies. Did hunter-gatherer researchers get it wrong all these years? We attempted to reproduce their study. These are the fatal flaws we found👇

Or maybe just f*ing relax, enjoy the conference, attend sessions that you're interested in, and have fun and make friends with people that you like

I grew up in Germany, so a trip to Japan is always a good reminder of what it’s like when trains and planes are on time and things just work

To fix math education, all we need to do is go back to explicit instruction and repetition. No discovery learning, no ‘talking about maths.’ All evidence-based. afr.com/work-and-caree…

If, wearing a mask, someone breaks the law - preventing access to a vital service like a hospital, or actively intimidating people there - they deserve jail (if a citizen) or deportation (if they're not).

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About where most successful professors eventually land

Americans are wealthier per capita than Europeans, even after you adjust for cost-of -living differences - a gap that has existed for decades.
It's almost as if something with really long-lasting consequences happened between 1914 and 1918 and then again between 1939 and 1945.