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The Real Reason for the Uber Gender Gap 0
- November 26, 2018
In a recent article, Cody Cook, et al. examine a detailed dataset covering more than a million Uber drivers. While the difference in earnings by gender among Uber drivers is large, “we are able to completely explain the pay gap with three main factors related to driver preferences and learning: returns to experience, a pay
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The Costs of Presidential Candor 0
- November 26, 2018
Predictably, Donald Trump was attacked both by the establishment and the media as “crude,” “unpresidential,” and “gratuitous” for a recent series of blunt and graphic statements on a variety of current policies. Oddly, the implied charge this time around was not that Trump makes up stuff, but that he said things that were factual but
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Five Modern Wise Men Everyone Should Know 0
- Culture
- November 26, 2018
Sometimes we are tempted to think that wisdom is dead and, admittedly, it sometimes seems as if that is true. And yet, there are still many modern thinkers, some of them still alive, who are able, in the words of one philosopher, to “see things and to see them whole.” And many of them are
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A 1944 Warning About Genetically Edited Babies 0
- November 26, 2018
I saw the headline scroll across the marquee as I drove by the public radio station this morning: gene-edited babies are officially a thing. The news comes out of China at the hands of researcher He Jiankui, who genetically edited a pair of twin girls. According to The Associated Press, Jiankui is well-meaning and
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Why Do Black Friday Shoppers Throw Punches Over Bargains?0
- Culture
- November 21, 2018
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The Secrets of a Longer Life 0
- November 21, 2018
New data has revealed that it is our own behavior that is the greatest threat to our staying alive. Poor diet is the number one risk factor, followed by high blood pressure and smoking. A bad diet was behind more than 19 percent of all deaths worldwide in 2017, and almost 70 percent of coronary heart disease deaths, and a
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