Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Photos from Gowrie Kunkua community library during the night session, Ghana
- Sumbrungu Community Library nighttime reading
- Résumé du livre Une grande mère criminelle
- Organisation d’une séance de discussion autour d’un livre à la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Librarians of Tuy monthly meeting January 2026, Burkina Faso
- Impressions sur la production de livres CMH au Burkina Faso
- Compte rendu de la première rencontre des gérants de la zone du Tuy
- Science fiction books for libraries in Burkina Faso and Ghana
- Animation d’une séance de lecture à la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Nyariga Community Library in Ghana, photos January 2026
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Pamela Roberts et Ezechiel Lopemba de SIL en visite à FAVL-BF
En début de la semaine passée Pamela Roberts bibliothécaire du SIL Burkina et Ezéchiel Lopemba pasteur de la chapelle à FATHEAD ont rendu une visite de courtoisie au siège de FAVL-BF. Après un accueil chaleureux, ils ont eu de très … Continue reading
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Someday you might like this song by Jason Molina, Farewell Transmission, but don’t go down his dark path no no
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Why did the South support the Federal income tax and the 16th amendment? because they understood the Progressive movement all too well
Robin Einhorn on tax redistribution to the South in the United States, “Look Away Dixieland: The South And The Federal Income Tax” in Northwestern University Law Review, 2014. Some facts (and Einhorn has great maps in the paper): Armed with … Continue reading
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Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Not sure why I like this composition so much. pretty simple. Maybe because on my playlist it comes before Up With People by Lampchop. And hard not to like that, so the prelude feels very right.
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Kathryn Schulz in The New Yorker, on WIlliam Kelley, a fantastic short essay
I didn’t know who William Kelley was when I found that book but, like millions of Americans, I knew a term he is credited with first committing to print. “If You’re Woke, You Dig It” read the headline of a … Continue reading
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Damien Hirst documentary on Netflix “Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable”
Sukie and I just stumbled on this, and greatly enjoyed the documentary. Excellent viewing with a kid from 12-16! ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’. It is the first major solo exhibition dedicated to Damien Hirst in Italy since … Continue reading
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Sometimes you wish you were an historian (but then again…)
From Robin Einhorn’s review of Gordon Wood’s various books: If Jefferson had known nearly as much about his society as Wood does, Empire of Liberty is the book he would have written. It is no coincidence that the title is … Continue reading
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University of Chicago event on macroeconomy and tax reforms… Roundtable Discussion with Austan Goolsbee and Edward Lazear
Notes on Goolsbee and Lazear Interviewer: What problems need solving through tax reform Lazear growth rate is way too low growth rate out of recession is low (both recoveries, historical standards) growth related to productivity and related to wages so … Continue reading
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Summary of key changes in tax code
Preliminary Details and Analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from The Tax Foundation Analysis of Final Tax Reform Legislation, Corporate Perspective Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance Good summary of provisions from Cooley LLP
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A visit to Bougounam library in #Burkina Faso
FAVL program officer Alidou Boué spent a day at Bougounam library earlier this week. Here are some photos: Zebret Moumouni, the librarian (who also decorated the building) in his hat at his desk (looking at a great Atlas in the … Continue reading
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I have evolved to a proud Type 3.7 Stata user, but know that still has problems
This is awesome! But will I not procrastinate and actually use it? I am already a Type 3.7 but I know exactly what the issue is here. So glad to see my own workflow habits “replicated”… (see here for the … Continue reading
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is a fantastic sprawling sci-fi story, set in the far future, with an AI as the central character. The character development is superb, and I especially appreciated the spot-on nuance about how AI might operate. … Continue reading
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What an unfortunate example to use to explain reverse correlation technique in social psychology
From Brinkman, L., Dotsch, R., & Todorov, A. (In press). Visualising mental representations: A primer on noise-based reverse correlation in social psychology. European Review of Social Psychology. Apparently the researcher don’t know what a Moroccan person looks like, but they … Continue reading
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Great article by Emily Oster and Geoffrey Kocks on vaccination in California
Great article by Emily Oster and Geoffrey Kocks on vaccination in California: Under-vaccination is a significant policy problem. As earlier generations knew, people die of measles, and of whooping cough, and of other diseases that vaccines can prevent. Figuring out … Continue reading
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U.S. military… random thoughts
A former student is thinking of going to law school to then become a JAG. He shared with me some thoughts on a book Saving Sandoval, by Craig Drummond. According to the blurb: Saving Sandoval is the true account of … Continue reading
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Neuroeconomics of limitations of cognitive processing probably where all the action is… “attention” is the byword
From Neuroeconomic theory: Using neuroscience to understand the bounds of rationality by Juan Carrillo and Isabelle Brocas “… research in neurobiology demonstrates that the brain cannot encode all the information contained in a signal. A decision is triggered when “enough” … Continue reading
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Importing an Excel file that is too big for Stata
The hivemind and Google leads to the answer immediately. There is an undocumented setting set excelxlsxlargefile on which will allow -import excel- to bypass the size checking. But Ricardo should be warned, the library we use to import Excel files … Continue reading
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Effect of distance to polling place on turnout by Enrico Cantoni
From a 2016 working paper by Enrico Cantoni. Below are the abstracts to the August and November versions of the paper; I like how the writing was tightened up and extraneous phrases dropped. Fewer words conveying the same information more … Continue reading
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Reading Enrico Cantoni while listening to Steve Reich’s Four Organs.
Reich, Steve: Four Organs (1970) 19′ for four electric organs and maracas Composer’s Notes: Four Organs is composed exclusively of the gradual augmentation (lengthening) of individual tones within a single (dominant 11th) chord. The tones within the chord gradually extend … Continue reading
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Reading Guy de Maupassant stories in Contes du jour et de la nuit
I picked up a copy of Contes du jour et de la nuit at our local San Jose second-hand bookstore, Recycle Books, and have been enjoying reading one of the early masters of the short story form. In some ways … Continue reading
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Michael Kevane 