by editor | Oct 24, 2019 | Top Page Links
“Does pay-for-performance in education work at scale?” By Cristina Bellés Obrero and María Lombardi, courtesy of IZA Teacher quality is key for student achievement. Individuals exposed to better teachers perform better in school, and are more likely to...
by editor | Oct 24, 2019 | Weekly Update
Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking). It seems the famous ursine avatar is...
by editor | Oct 22, 2019 | Top Page Links
Miner Discovers Lithium in Them Thar Hills (of Waste Rock) FT today has an interesting piece on the serendipity of resource exploration. Major multinational Rio Tinto, a world-class copper and iron ore producer, uncovered an unexpected find at...
by editor | Oct 22, 2019 | Top Page Links
Just because something is disgusting doesn’t mean it’s not good for the environment, and vice versa. To this interesting category we may add environmentally friendly airplanes fueled by “meat waste,” as well as other...
by editor | Oct 22, 2019 | Top Page Links
Artificial meat, referring to protein grown from animal cells in laboratories, has obvious attractions for rich, high-tech places without much land for raising livestock. No surprise, then, that Singapore is one of the countries most...
