Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-13

[jasoncrawford]

Link post

Links

• Davis Kedrosky reviews How the World Became Rich, by Koyama & Rubin

• Study: keeping Diablo Canyon would avoid blackouts; reduce power costs, emissions and natural gas; and help clean energy goals (see also my summary thread)

• New Science announces its inaugural summer fellowships

• Profectus Magazine asks a few questions about progress to me and others

Quotes

• People thought the telegraph would bring world peace

• Why the US got the bomb and Germany/​Japan didn’t

• How George Westinghouse handled stress

Queries

• What makes someone in academia decide to write a book for a general audience?

Retweets

A thread-review of Virginia Postrel’s The Fabric of Civilization (@seb_far)

Are there other pre-industrial revolution inventions besides the printing press that led to a sudden and sustained increase in output? (@_brianpotter)

• Philanthropy now gives more to science than NIH/​NSF (@orgRem). Why has science philanthropy increased so much in the last decade?

• There has been stronger global convergence in quality of life than in income (@JustinSandefur)