ashish arora
ashish arora
@ashisharora.bsky.social
economics, innovation, and random stuff

https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ashish-arora
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I can't believe the Lizza Nuzzi stories are still going 😭

This is definitely better. We talk about eels and rabbits, and separately, people trying to keep smallpox vaccines alive
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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I also freely admit how absurd it feels to say that "fire ants are a type of wasp and also a type of crustacean" or "strawberries & apples are both a type of rose" in spite of the fact that this is, taxonomically speaking, true.

More here:
Phylogenetic Trees and Monophyletic Groups
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The dumping will happen the day he's no longer of any further use in monetary and status terms and it will not happen one second before that
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Another example of what I want to call the 'Marine Corps-ification' of hoplites, where the agoge becomes boot camp and hoplite values idealized Marine values and all of the uniqueness of Greek martial culture is drained away and replaced with a self-flattering conception of American 'warfighters.'
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I think Prescott’s edit was more misleading than the BBC’s…
He absolutely was winding up that mob.
FT:
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM