An extra long list this week to catch up after Hurricane Dorian. Favorite quote this week: “Thus, accumulating evidence shows that over-representation of males in STEM fields is perhaps better framed as under-representation of males in reading fields and the latter is driven by relatively low reading achievement among males.”
- Circumstances in Which I Will Not Pet Your Dog. New Yorker. Yep, pretty much.
- Girls’ comparative advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in math-related fields. Marginal Revolution. Evidence that the gender gap in math/science is primarily caused by boys being terrible at reading in school.
- Active Learning Works But Students Don’t Like It. Marginal Revolution, again.
- The American Working Man Still Isn’t Working. Foreign Affairs. I was quite shocked by the fact that 13.7% of men age 25-54 are not working, up from 12.8% in 2007.
- Greta Thunberg Is the Anti-Trump. New Yorker. When I was sixteen I mostly played Mortal Kombat Trilogy all day after school. Inspiring!
- A crack just emerged in the financial markets: The NY Fed spends $53 billion to rescue the overnight lending market. CNN Business. Odd.
- A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible & Inexpensive, Scientists Find. Observer. Science is so cool.
- Physicists Finally Nail the Proton’s Size, and Hope Dies. Quanta Magazine. Even when science is kind of boring, it’s still so cool.
- The boring technology behind a one-person internet company. Wenbin Fang, ListenNotes. Not investment-related at all, but I loved this article and found it encouraging as a fellow one-person internet company.