Ep422 - Edward 'Ted' Miguel | Open Science: A...

Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, better known as Map Men, are comedians, cartography enthusiasts, YouTube sensations, and educators. With over 100 million views across platforms, they have single-handedly cornered the "pop-geography" market, becoming the saviors of every geogra ...  Show more

Buena Vista Social Club is a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Inspired by true events, the musical brings the Grammy award-winning album to life, recounting the story of the legends who lived it. Step into the heart of Cuba, beyond the glitz of the Tropicana, to a place where ...  Show more

Economics is seeing an upsurge in the importance of controlled, reproducible empirical studies. One area where this has had a great impact is on development economics, which studies the economies of low- and middle-income societies. Edward Miguel has been at the forefront of both ...  Show more

Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in cities across the continent often requi ...  Show more

Listening to the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence, one could be forgiven for assuming that the technology is either a bogeyman or a savior, with little ground in between. But that's not the stance o ...

Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemi ...  Show more