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Lunchtime Photo

2 years 7 months ago
This is sort of an odd picture. It's the Washington Monument, of course, but it doesn't really look very tall. Is it because of the trees, which distort our sense of scale? Or about shooting it from slightly above its base? Or about the cropping of the photo? I'm not sure.
Kevin Drum

Raw data: Race, gender, and ethnicity among US inventors

2 years 7 months ago
Via Alex Tabarrok, here's the racial and ethnic breakdown of inventors in the United States. The figures are from a new demographic study done by Ufuk Akcigit and Nathan Goldschlag: Every nonwhite group is massively underrepresented except for Asians, who are massively overrepresented. Women are also enormously underrepresented: In this study, "inventor" is anyone with ...continue reading "Raw data: Race, gender, and ethnicity among US inventors"
Kevin Drum

Big Win Against Evergreening For Tuberculosis Sufferers In India, But Will Johnson & Johnson Allow Those In Other Countries To Benefit?

2 years 7 months ago
“Evergreening” refers to the practice by pharmaceutical companies of making small changes to a drug, often about to come off patent, in order to gain a new patent that extends its manufacturer’s monopoly control over it. The first Techdirt post about evergreening appeared almost exactly ten years ago. It concerned the rejection by the Indian […]
Glyn Moody