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Nobel laureate Esther Duflo proposes taxing 3,000 billionaires to protect the world’s poorest from...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoThe world’s rich nations have agreed, several times, that helping poor countries cope with the...
Mosquito Mission: A look at Duflo insect spraying from the ground up
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAug. 12—NEW BREMEN — Years ago, a loud buzzing in the sky multiple times every summer from the low-flying planes spraying for mosquitos was as normal in most communities as the burgers and dogs ...
Hurricane Fiona Causes Entire Island of Puerto Rico to Lose Power
People via Yahoo News· 2 years agoUncredited/AP/Shutterstock Puerto Rico is suffering from a total blackout amid the category 1 storm,...
Ig Nobel 2022: Research on constipated scorpions, knob turning awarded for making people ‘laugh,...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoResearch on the sex lives of constipated scorpions, a life-size moose crash test dummy made of...
Georgia painter takes Best of Show, $5,000 prize, at Mayfaire art festival in Lakeland
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNathan Miller of Covington, Georgia, received the Best of Show award at the Citizens Bank & Trust...
There are more refugees today than at any point in history since WWII. A new approach aims to turn...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoToday, the world honors refugees, and celebrates their courage and resilience–but a failure to...
UPDATE 4-Brazil's proposal to tax super-rich gains momentum amid G20, next steps in July
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoBrazil's proposal to tax the super-rich globally gained momentum among Group of Twenty members on Wednesday, with France's finance minister and the head of the International Monetary Fund backing ...
10 things you need to know today: October 9, 2023
The Week via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi. 1. Israel declares war after Hamas attack Israel formally declared war and approved retaliatory strikes against...
U.S. colleges that have employed the most Nobel Prize-winning professors
Stacker via AOL· 4 months agoJeppe Gustafsson // Shutterstock The Nobel Prize is considered one of the greatest life...
The Nobel Prize in Economics offers a timely reminder of the nature of financial crises
Quartz via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoThis year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel went to Ben S....