AIDS in Africa is one of the gravest problems facing the world.
Emily Oster has some of the most interesting ideas about AIDS in Africa.
You can see and hear these ideas online, courtesy of the wonderful folks at the TED Conference.
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Besides her longer papers, I also enjoyed this short piece of hers in Esquire from a while back:
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-n-brightest-2006/ESQ1206BOWEN_206_2
It referred to her as having the “highest controversies-generated-to-years-in-academia ratio” of anyone in her field.
Besides her longer papers, I also enjoyed this short piece of hers in Esquire from a while back:
http://www.esquire.com/features/best-n-brightest-2006/ESQ1206BOWEN_206_2
It referred to her as having the “highest controversies-generated-to-years-in-academia ratio” of anyone in her field.
Ok, Emily’s presentation was fine.
But some of those TED talks are presented by long winded gas bags pontificating about inane subjects as if they hope someday to have created eponymously named pretentious crap that they can show their parents and say, “look mom, I told you I would amount to something”, when in fact they are the most miserable failures to ever grace a stage of pompous windbags.
Listen especially to the MIT professor describe how state of the art manufacturing is zooming down to the personal level and how one of his students invented the “yell-bag”. What a crock.
But that’s just my opinion.
Ok, Emily’s presentation was fine.
But some of those TED talks are presented by long winded gas bags pontificating about inane subjects as if they hope someday to have created eponymously named pretentious crap that they can show their parents and say, “look mom, I told you I would amount to something”, when in fact they are the most miserable failures to ever grace a stage of pompous windbags.
Listen especially to the MIT professor describe how state of the art manufacturing is zooming down to the personal level and how one of his students invented the “yell-bag”. What a crock.
But that’s just my opinion.
The TED talks have pretty much convinced me that nerds and geeks are not given prominent stage time for a reason. They have no stage presence. They’re ideas are half-baked. And those that are fully charred in the fires of peer review are best left to the Journals.
The TED talks have pretty much convinced me that nerds and geeks are not given prominent stage time for a reason. They have no stage presence. They’re ideas are half-baked. And those that are fully charred in the fires of peer review are best left to the Journals.
Boy, somebody has some issues.
and Egretman: they’re ^= their… Nerd.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that it is encouraging to see Levitt’s style of thinking brought to bear on an important and expensive topic.
It’s also worth noting that even in the US, the CDC has only recently begun to explore whether or not its own programs in reducing HIV spread are effective, despite many years of massive expenditures.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5506a1.htm
Boy, somebody has some issues.
and Egretman: they’re ^= their… Nerd.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that it is encouraging to see Levitt’s style of thinking brought to bear on an important and expensive topic.
It’s also worth noting that even in the US, the CDC has only recently begun to explore whether or not its own programs in reducing HIV spread are effective, despite many years of massive expenditures.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5506a1.htm