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Blog Post
March 26, 2021
It’s been quite the week for extraordinary behaviour with foodstuffs. A Taiwanese man has inadvertently changed his name permanently to ‘Salmon Dream’ in an attempt to access free sushi, yet this is somehow not the most ridiculous food-related public idiocy of the week: I present Charles W...
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March 12, 2021
It’s always hard to open the links when a Sri Lanka ODI is still at that point where we might win, if sufficient miracles occur, rather than at the point where I can simply make darkly comic jokes about the pits of human despair (a place new parents with teething children are well-acquainted). Speak...
Blog Post
March 05, 2021
Last week I opened the links with a review of the week’s carnage in cricket, which prompted a friend to send this in response, which… is actually quite an accurate reflection of what cricket looks like to most people. But at the risk of losing my audience in the intro again, what the fresh hell...
Blog Post
February 23, 2021
In 2020, epidemiological modelling went from relative obscurity to being central in helping governments, and the public, understand COVID-19 as it spread around the world. In 2021, with the emergence of effective COVID-19 vaccines, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) will be critical to making the be...
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February 05, 2021
Economics has a generally hostile seminar culture, even compared to other academic disciplines. For some this is part of the appeal: there are no easy rides, and anyone presenting a model, a theory, a finding has to fight to prove it. A balance is needed between the kind of scrutiny that keeps metho...
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January 29, 2021
Of course, a podcast isn’t the only way you can do a great deep dive into a paper. One of the best things about Development Impact has always been that it’s written by a group of people who marry technical brilliance with absolute clarity of communication, and there were two particularly great examp...