Welcome to the Weekend Reccs. Today’s world is curious and cacophonous. This newsletter delivers an eclectic sample of some of the best things to read, watch, and ponder over your weekend. There’s a lot of economics and politics, but there is also so much more.
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Hi friends,
Had something of an off-week this week. Please excuse the bare links.
The Weekend Reccs
GRRM on Winds of Winter: coming soon. I am a sucker because I always believe him.
The Zone of Death. (s/o Ata Baltaci)
The world-class athletes that try to walk as little as possible.
An AI that plays tennis, but not in the way you think. (s/o Wes De Silvestro)
Lagniappe
Just sit and be at peace for the next five minutes. Everything will be waiting for you when you check back in.
Graph(s) of the week
[WSJ] Lots of foreclosures coming down the pipe as folks fall through the cracks of forbearance programs, unemployment payments, and economic relief stimulus. For the uninitiated: forbearance = mutually agreed to delaying payments; performing = payments happening on time; delinquent = missing payments.
[WSJ] Despite improvement, US is still at a worse place with daily cases than the EU has ever reached.
[Wikipedia] It is not a perfect science, but one way to think of SCOTUS ideological leanings is by a measure known as Martin–Quinn Scores. Below graphs each justice since 1935.
RIP RBG.
Your friend,
Harrison