Digital Gems

By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.

For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like.

The Alzheimer’s treatment will cost $56,000 per patient, and millions may use it. The result: “crazy numbers” for Medicare.

Shoppers aren't showing any signs of getting tired of Amazon Prime Day, even though some sellers had said they weren't planning on offering deals this year.

The trend throughout the year has been for the market to surprise on the high side vs. the levels implied by supply, but the relentless drain on inventory is pointing to more sequential weakness before growth resumes later this year.

As part of the new home sales report released yesterday, the Census Bureau reported the number of homes sold by price and the average and me...

The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for May: Personal income decreased $414.3 billion (2.0 percent) in May according...

According to new research from Strategy Analytics, half the world’s entire population now owns a smartphone in June 2021. Some 4 billion people use a smartphone today. It has taken 27 years to reach this historic milestone. Exhibit 1: Global Smartphone User Base: % of World Population(1) (Source: Strategy Analytics, Inc.) Yiwen Wu, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “We estimate the global smartphone user base has risen dramatically from just 30k people in 1994 to 1.00 billion in 2012, and a record 3.95 billion today in June 2021. With an estimated 7.90 billion people in total on the planet in June 2021, it means 50% of the whole world now owns a smartphone. It has taken 27 years to reach this historic milestone.” Linda Sui, Senior Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “The world’s first modern smartphone, IBM Simon, was launched commercially in the United States way back in 1994. This was followed by other famous models, such as the Nokia 9110 Communicator in 1998 and

It also has lots of false alarms.

This cohort study externally validates the Epic Sepsis Model in the prediction of sepsis and evaluates its potential clinical impact compared with usual care.

Note: At the beginning of the pandemic, the delinquency rate increased sharply (see table below).   Loans in forbearance are counted as deli...

From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product (Third Estimate), GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits (Revised), 1st Quarter 2021 Real gross domes...

Books on leadership and self-improvement, recommended by the US Navy.

The Navy’s top admiral says he urged sailors to read books like Ibram X. Kendi’s “How To Be An Antiracist” after the murder of George Floyd.

A new and slightly changed version of the Delta coronavirus variant is spreading in a number of countries including the United Kingdom, United States and India, health officials say.

An excerpt from the book ‘Nightmare Scenario’ details how Trump's illness was far more severe than the White House acknowledged. Advisers thought it would alter his pandemic response. They were wrong.

A laborer discovered the fossil and hid it in a well for 85 years. Scientists say it could help sort out the human family tree and how our species emerged.

Six months of unusual warmth in Siberia, along with a 100-degree temperature record, would not have happened without global warming.

This is a report I wrote for my housing policy course at UCLA. I’ve been interested in inclusionary zoning and its potential side effects…

Debates concerning residential population displacement in the context of gentrification remain vociferous, but are hampered by a lack of empirical evidence of t...

The conversation about gentrification continually repackages a set of debunked theories as reality and it obscures a set of real crises that need fixing.

U.S. business costs, buffeted by a COVID-decimated year of “chaos” worldwide in 2020, fell 4% to $1.56 trillion. That amounted to 7.4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), nearly an all-time low, according to a new authoritative report on the logistics sector.

LifeStance's stock price has soared since its IPO earlier this month.

(2021). Teams do not outperform individuals in a simple creative task. Applied Economics Letters. Ahead of Print.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Online short-term rental (STR) platforms such as Airbnb have grown spectacularly. We study the effects of regulation of these platforms on the housing…

U.S. Latinos have a higher life expectancy and earn more yearly when they live in integrated neighborhoods.