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I took the 2026 SAT and the 1985 SAT
I can’t even count all the op-eds recently about bringing the SAT back, so the video is well timed.
Some observations about taking the 2026 and 1985 SATs:
- The current SAT is adaptive. You get 4 sections, 2 verbal and 2 math. If you do...
The Professor Who Inspired Thanos
Video Notes:
- The Planet Money episode on the Bet is excellent (it is from the era when Planet Money was actually good), but it lets Ehrlich off too easy, IMO. A better, definitive treatment of the Bet is from the ever-excellent Hannah...
Can Soccer Fix what Colonialism Broke?
Quick Econ Nerds video this week.
I originally intended this to be a short, but the cool maps in the papers and the stock footage from Getty convinced me it deserved a longer piece.
The video combines two papers. The first is one I saw ba...
Why you wouldn’t steal a car. But you would steal a song.
All Econ Nerds videos can be found on our youtube channel, if you interested in the videos mentioned at the end: https://www.youtube.com/@EconNerds
Video notes
- The video is based on this excellent post by Joy Buchanan, who also appear...
Russia had more oil, more land, more people. Poland won anyway.
The longest Econ Nerds video yet!
Poland is hot. Matt Yglesias wrote about it recently, and the country has been at the center of the “is Europe actually poorer than the US?” discourse. I started this video maybe three months ago, so I gue...
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