has there ever been a more desperate man?
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Teach, research, and write about African politics & pandemics. Author: Doomed Interventions 📕. Editor, The Monkey Cage 🖥. Host, Ufahamu Africa 🎙. Mom of 2. #FirstGen. 🇰🇷+🇺🇸.
This is the African politics co-editors' swan song for
#TheMonkeyCage's time at the Washington Post.
Together, @texasinafrica and I reflected on some of the great analysis our colleagues wrote up this year (including a few pieces published elsewhere).
apropos of a friend asking about #ChatGPT on Facebook earlier today, I was curious what it would spit out if I asked it "What is #TheMonkeyCage ?"
It was /mostly/ correct.
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The Monkey Cage is a blog that is affiliated with The Washington Post and focuses on political science research and analysis...It is named after a type of enclosure used in laboratories to study non-human primates, and the name is meant to reflect the blog's focus on the "political animal."
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[that last part = wrong]
Dare ObasanjoThis is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.
The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.
So simple yet…
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
Don't miss this great overview of Russian public opinion on the war in Ukraine, by Bryn Rosenfeld and published today in #TheMonkeyCage.
TProphet1/ A lot of people have been asking for an explainer on what is going on with Southwest Airlines and the massive meltdown that occurred. Hi, I'm TProphet. I write the Seat 31B travel blog (https://www.seat31b.com) and closely follow the airline industry. More importantly, I have a friend whom Southwest abandoned in Las Vegas until New Year's (along with his cat), and there was literally nothing I could do for him. Ready? Let's dive in.
Conrad Hackett 
Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.
Melissa BakerOkay social scientists of mastodon, what are some of your favorite papers from 2022? A chaotic year likely means I missed a lot and would love some recommendations so I can catch up!
Jeong Park 박종찬How a renowned historian of #JapaneseAmerican incarceration changed his mind on Tule Lake, which housed those who did not agree to swear allegiance to the U.S. -> https://iexaminer.org/remembering-roger-daniels-bedrock-historian-of-japanese-american-incarceration/
Remembering Roger Daniels, bedrock historian of Japanese American incarceration - International Examiner
The first book I read about Japanese American history was Roger Daniels’ book, “The Politics of Prejudice.” It was 1966, and in my research as a college freshman, it was the rare book on Japanese American history, one that began Roger’s long and illustrious career as a historian documenting the story of Japanese Americans and […]
Honest question: If the US had a better rail system--capable of convenient passenger travel--would we be having similar delay/cancellation issues with trains that we're currently having with planes?