Jazz Is Freedom The Baffler
Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other New Scientist
This wildlife rehabilitator rescued over 1,600 bats during Houston cold snap CNN
New York Putting Kangaroo 🦘 Island on the global map and every one loves the Hungarian identical Twin comedy show in Adelaide
Robert Gottlieb On The Relationship Between Editor And Writer
Grief, a (grand)mother tongue Scalawag
Paul Cronin’s book of conversations with filmmaker Werner Herzog is called Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed. On the back cover of the book, Herzog offers a list of advice for filmmakers that doubles as general purpose life advice.
24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog, incl. "carry bolt cutters everywhere" and "take revenge if need be".
I bet this is some of the stuff you learn at Herzog’s Rogue Film School
Pigeon caught in Canadian prison yard with drugsAnadolu
What’s next for quantum computing MIT Technology Review
What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon’s Ranks
Food insecurity, aka hunger, afflicts from one in eight to one in four military families per recent studies.
“Unveiling the Price of Obscenity”
Does legitimating sinful activities have a cost? This paper examines the relationship between housing demand and overt prostitution in Amsterdam. In our empirical design, we exploit the spatial discontinuity in the location of brothel windows created by canals, combined with a policy that forcibly closed some of the windows near these canals. To pin down their effect on housing prices, we apply a difference-in-discontinuity (DiD) estimator, which controls for the precise location of brothel windows and the effect of other policies and local developments. Our results show that the housing prices are discontinuous at the bordering canals, and this discontinuity nearly disappears after closures. The discontinuity is also found to decrease with the distance to brothels, disappearing after 300 yards. Our estimates indicate that homes right next to sex workers were 30 percent cheaper before the closures. This result seems unrelated to the presence of other businesses, such as bars and cannabis shops. Instead, the price discount is partly explained by petty crimes. However, 73 percent of the effect remains unexplained after controlling for many forms of crime and risk perception. Our findings suggest that households tend to be against the visible presence of sex workers and related nuisances, reaffirming their marginalization.
That is from a new paper by Erasmo Giambona and Rafael P. Ribas, via a highly reputable man.
