Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Daytime session at Sherigu Community Library
- La deuxième journée des activités de café littéraire à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Échanges avec la nouvelle gérante de la bibliothèque de Koho
- Reprise des activités de la bibliothèque mobile Pénélope
- Sortie de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse
- Bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux de la lecture à Niankorodougou
- Bibliothèque communautaire de Zimtenga ! Les livres attendent patiemment le retour des communautés
- Bilan des activités du mois d’août de la bibliothèque de Bougounam
- Bilan des premières journées du café littéraire
- Nyariga community library, daytime activities
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Where Economics is going: Increasingly integrated into decision-making in a routine way, as in decisions about whether to go to jail while awaiting trial
We examine how machine learning can be used to improve and understand human decision-making. In particular, we focus on a decision that has important policy consequences. Millions of times each year, judges must decide where defendants will await trial—at home … Continue reading
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President Engh’s remarks on SCU budget shortfalls
An interesting thing happened on the way to implementing Sustaining Excellence. Our operating budget for FY17 inherited more challenges from the previous year than originally estimated. In FY16 we ended up with a $4.5 Million net operating loss — the … Continue reading
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Why can’t I listen to Sigur Ros The Nothing Song for more than two hours? Why didn’t they play it for ten hours?
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Light television viewing if you stream Netflix
I enjoyed The OA immensely, even if at times the show is unsatisfying. It is like Netflix had carefully analyzed my viewing profile and said, “Let’s make a series that mixes Lost, Arrival, Lars von Trier, I see dead people, … Continue reading
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Kwei Quartey’s Murder at Cape Three Points
Quartey’s detective series, now in its third title, featuring Darko Dawson is pretty good. I enjoyed Murder at Cape Three Points. The mystery here is a double-murder that involves the nascent offshore oil industry. Lots of nice description of Takoradi, … Continue reading
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Georgetown University Library Budget Cut
Lauinger Library’s budget was cut by $1 million for fiscal year 2016, requiring the library to reduce its principal collections of books to avoid staff layoffs. In July 2015, the library took a 6-percent overall budget reduction as part of … Continue reading
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Stata gets a markdown package… will try this in coming weeks
Rigorous documentation of the analysis plan, procedure, and computer codes enhances the comprehensibility and transparency of data analysis. Documentation is particularly critical when the codes and data are meant to be publicly shared and examined by the scientific community to … Continue reading
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Roundup Friday
Have been very busy teaching introductory econometrics and associated lab to my Econ 41-42 students. Fun, but a lot of work. So many little glitches in R-Markdown. Great, useful program, but bringing students up to speed, and being the one … Continue reading
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More than 100,000 visas revoked due to travel ban
Amateur foreign policy indeed. Over 100,000 visas have been revoked as a result of President Trump’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries, an attorney for the government revealed in Alexandria federal court Friday.The number came out during a … Continue reading
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Recent reading: Two good graphic novels and The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Elliot for Christmas got Kill My Mother by Jules Feiffer, an interesting noir homage graphic novel, set in the 1940s Hollywood and Pacific Theater. If you are my age and a certain income class you probably read a lot of … Continue reading
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New Zealand Is ‘the Future,’ Peter Thiel Said
Answered my question from yesterday, which country is “greater” than the United States and so worthy of emulation? Thiel has presumably communicated his choice to Trump. “I am happy to say categorically that I have found no other country that … Continue reading
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Trump and Navarro want to make the U.S. more like China… Why do we want to be poorer?
“More manufacturing.” “Without manufacturing we cannot be a great nation.” So think about it. The more like China the United States becomes, the more our average per capita income will drop to $5,000 per person (China’s), instead of $45,000 (ours … Continue reading
Wasting time getting ready for class: Powerpoint tip
Someday you might use this: I have two text boxes that I would like to appear repeatedly on a PowerPoint slide. For example I want box one to appear for five seconds, then box two, then box one again, box … Continue reading
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Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad”
Whitehead’s novel is good. The central device of the “real” underground railroad is imaginative and deftly deployed. The horrors of slavery, the perversity of “benign” slavery, the tenuous freedoms of Indiana, and the interior life of the main character, Cora, … Continue reading
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Salient stories like these from the University of Oregon are worrisome to all faculty, whose job is “speech”
As a university professor, I know that much of my job involves engaging in speech. I do that “live” in front of students, I do it on Youtube recordings, I do it on a blog, I do it in academic … Continue reading
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Ha Jin’s Waiting
At a colleague’s Christmas party I had met the Stanford University economic historian Avner Grief, and he chatted with me for a long time about the role of clans in China and how that kin culture led to different institutional … Continue reading
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Books read in 2016, ranked by “Ones I would encourage you to read first”
Looks like I read 20 novels in 2016 (though I will probably read a couple more over break). Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend Michael Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things Stephen Jarvis’s Death and Mr. Pickwick Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The … Continue reading
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Every person claiming to be an American should know the basics of My Lai
Audaciously and on his own initiative, the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr., swooped down and landed the copter. “Mr. Thompson was just beside himself,” Mr. Colburn recalled in an interview in 2010 for the PBS program “The American … Continue reading
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