The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. At OWID, we believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the

My intern was born in 2007 I have unread emails older than that

Highlights from the WGS–Latin America and the Caribbean Dialogue, which hosted a high-level closed roundtable and a series of expert-driven panels that brought together regional leaders, policymakers, and global experts. The dialogue fostered strategic discussions to strengthen

En Bogotá el silencio es un lujo que solo pueden pagar los estratos altos🏙️Más del 85 % de las zonas residenciales de la ciudad superan los límites legales de ruido, revelando que el silencio es un privilegio marcado por la desigualdad urbana ow.ly/UGvk50X6BSt | Prensa UNAL - Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Super interesting! "Parsing the pulse: decomposing macroeconomic sentiment with LLMs" by Byeungchun Kwon, Taejin Park, Phurichai Rungcharoenkitkul, and Frank Smets. "Macroeconomic indicators provide quantitative signals that must be pieced together and interpreted by

Exciting day today! Thrilled to partner with OpenAI to deploy 6GWs of AMD Instinct GPUs. The world needs more AI compute. Together, we’re bringing the best of both companies to accelerate the global AI infrastructure buildout. Thanks Sam Altman Greg Brockman for the trust and partnership.

You can now chat with apps in ChatGPT.

Featured in the latest Bulletin on Entrepreneurship: The Gig Economy and Entrepreneurship nber.org/be/20252/gig-e…

One AI year is seven Internet ones.

Still one of the greatest moments in Nobel history. At 2:15 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2020, a security camera caught Prof. Emeritus Robert Wilson in slippers at Prof. Paul Milgrom's front door. The longtime collaborators, who lived across the street from each other, had jointly won the

Muchos creen que 'vender más' es una sola guerra. Error. Son tres batallas distintas que deben pelearse en orden: Anonimato -> Motor Predecible -> Matemática y ya Saltarte una es perder desde el principio Les echo el cuento

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr

What creates sustained economic growth? This year’s laureates used different methods to answer this question. Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr – awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences – has demonstrated that a continual flow of useful knowledge is

🚨 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt 🚨 "for having explained innovation-driven economic growht" The best prize in years!

Watch 2019 economic sciences laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo talk about the importance of experiencing life in developing countries – not only the challenges, but also the beauty. Their innovative research, based on field experiments, has developed new approaches to

Llevo un tiempo tratando de convencer a los políticos que las redes sociales son más potentes que la política tradicional. Sin embargo, la gran mayoría siguen viendo el tema por encima del hombro, sus redes sociales las maneja un “Sobrinity Manager” y lo ven como algo accesorio.

🚔 ¿Más policía equivale a menos crimen? En este #SeminarioCEDEenMinutos, nuestro profesor Alvaro Riascos (Alvaro Riascos) presenta una investigación sobre el impacto de la presencia policial en el crimen en Bogotá. 👮‍♂️ Aumentar en 10% la presencia de la policía en un cuadrante puede

“Bogotá, Colombia, now has a lower fertility rate (0.91) than Tokyo (0.99).” - The Economist

Hoy pensé que estaba temblando No señores, era el bebé moviéndose

Esta sociedad necesita una conversación sobre el choque entre derecho a la protesta y el de la movilidad. El bloqueo al transporte público debería ser un delito.