Economics and International Affairs Blog
A politically independent blog by Vivekanand Jayakumar
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Why Don’t Young People Vote?
Why Don’t Young People Vote, and What Can Be Done About It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/upshot/youth-voting-2020-election.html
India - Geography, Gender, and Socio-Economic Development
Why are North and South India so different on gender?
https://www.draliceevans.com/post/why-are-southern-north-eastern-indian-states-more-gender-equal
Why Do Most Indian Men Live with Their Parents?
https://www.draliceevans.com/post/why-do-most-indian-men-still-live-with-their-parents
Wealth Inequality in the US
The 50 Richest Americans Are Worth as Much as the Poorest 165 Million
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-08/top-50-richest-people-in-the-us-are-worth-as-much-as-poorest-165-million
Top 1% Of U.S. Households Hold 15 Times More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Combined
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/10/08/top-1-of-us-households-hold-15-times-more-wealth-than-bottom-50-combined/#747d1b5b5179
Science and Climate Change
Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/07/radiative-cooling-climate-change/
Scientists are tapping into a law of physics to create cooling systems that work without special fuel or electricity
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
2020 Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry
A tool for editing genomes wins the Nobel prize for chemistry
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/10/07/a-tool-for-editing-genomes-wins-the-nobel-prize-for-chemistry
Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to two women who developed CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing tool
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/10/07/nobel-prize-chemistry/
This Year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors a Revolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/opinion/nobel-prize-chemistry-2020-doudna-charpentier.html
Related:
PBS
Frontline Documentary on CRISPR
:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/human-nature/
Black holes suck in the Nobel prize for physics
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/10/06/black-holes-suck-in-the-nobel-prize-for-physics
Sir Roger Penrose: The man who proved black holes weren't 'impossible'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54439150
American Andrea Ghez, two others win Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries about black holes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/10/06/nobel-prize-physics/
The Uneven US Economic Recovery
Normalcy for Some, Apocalypse for Others
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/less-recovery/616567/
Venezuela’s Economic Woes
Venezuela, Once an Oil Giant, Reaches the End of an Era
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/world/americas/venezuela-oil-economy-maduro.html
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