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Book ideas #14: House on Fire
Lessons from global smallpox eradication
Jul 6
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Daniel Banki
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May 2025
Book ideas #13: The Oligarchs
Ponzi schemes, shady privatization deals, and other tales from 1990s Russia
May 31
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Daniel Banki
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April 2025
Book ideas #12: Ben Macintyre reading cluster
Lessons from double agents
Apr 27
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Daniel Banki
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Book ideas #11: Skunk Works
A chopped-up aircraft, thirsty horses in the desert, and other side effects of pursuing excellence in secrecy
Apr 16
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Daniel Banki
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March 2025
Book ideas #10: The Billion Dollar Spy
Ergodicity, value capture, tragedy of the commons, and other lectures from espionage
Mar 20
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Daniel Banki
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Mistakes to avoid when drafting millions
Draft lotteries, weak-link problems, and the power of redundancy
Mar 2
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Daniel Banki
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February 2025
Why volunteer for a semi-starvation experiment?
Participant motives in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment and what they teach us
Feb 9
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Daniel Banki
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January 2025
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
How to recruit volunteers for a 6-month semi-starvation experiment
Jan 19
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Daniel Banki
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December 2024
The typical experience that wasn’t
On historians' struggle to present typical lives through a single person
Dec 19, 2024
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Daniel Banki
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November 2024
People’s history and distribution building
How hungry were Gulag prisoners?
Nov 30, 2024
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Daniel Banki
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Bienvenue en France! Now, Don’t Forget to Tip the Usher
The Pocket Guide to France and its advice on tipping in WWII France
Nov 3, 2024
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Daniel Banki
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October 2024
"Stored in Warehouses for the Duration"
A Pocket Guide to the USSR, aka how to euphemistically present an authoritarian regime
Oct 16, 2024
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Daniel Banki
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