Useful reminder.
According to the National Weather Service, more than half of flood-related drownings take place after a vehicle has been driven into flood water. “A mere [six] inches of fast-moving flood water can knock over an adult,” the agency warns. Think your car is any safer? “It takes just 12 inches of rushing water to carry away most cars and just two feet of rushing water can carry away SUVs and trucks.”
Not a great answer but better than I could come up with.
Unsurprising to an economist at least: if it's good, it will sooner or later get crowded.
Possibly of interest to academics and people who like statistics.
Let’s start with a question so familiar that you will have answered it before the sentence is even completed:
How many studies will a researcher need to run before finding a significant (p<.05) result? (If she is studying a non-existent effect and if she is not p-hacking.)
One of the astonishing measures of human progress.
What is striking about the historical estimates is how similar the mortality rates for children were across this very wide range of 43 historical cultures. . . . Every fourth newborn died in the first year of life. One out of two died in childhood. . . .
On the very right of the chart you see the statistics on child health in the world today: The global infant mortality rate is now is 2.9%. And 4.6% die before reaching the age of 15.
Assuming that this isn't staged, it is, indeed, impressive.
"This is why shorting and market timing are so difficult. Because there is no iron law of investing that states that fundamentals have to matter. Yes, Ben Graham once said, 'In the short run the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine,' but just how long is the long run? Whatever the market says it is."
Interesting by itself, but with a bit of interesting background on where Indo-European came from.
Some information about the (much) better known Craig Newmark.
"50" as in one for each state.