Favorites July 13th 2023

David Watson

Jul 15, 2023

Toronto, July 2023. I believe it’s an ad for the cups under the wheels.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion This is convincing. The NEPA NIMBYs will defeat transmission and everyone will just install batteries. — (src)

It's a cool article, but the upshot is so simple: it's probably easier to build batteries than transmission lines. I'm really hopeful that we'll be able to reform NEPA, but it's good to know that we might simply be saved by batteries.

jossfong 1d “We estimate one of the largest motherhood penalties in ‘female-breadwinner’ families, where higher-earning women (green triangle) experience a 60% drop from their prechildbirth earnings relative to their male partners (blue dots). Turning to proximate mechanisms, women are less likely to switch to a higher-paying firm postchildbearing than men and are substantially more likely to quit the labor force." pnas.org/doi/1… — (src)

She notes that in countries with better leave policies, this doesn't happen. While we're on the subject:

Bloomberg @business Japanese trading company Itochu banned late night work at the office. Now the fertility rate among full-time employees has doubled. Could similar changes help countries cope with falling birthrates? https://trib.al/tdHAn9Y — (src)

Seems like Japan has had a successful experiment with pro-natal policies.

mashup movie poster for Barbenheimer (Barbie + Oppenheimer) — (src)

Honestly, I don’t expect I’ll see either of these in theaters, but both their trailers look very impressive. And the ongoing memes about them coming out at once are pretty good. via kottke.org

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• Thread of data about research on painting stuff white to avoid heat island effects, and reduce energy use.