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Old and interesting #6: OSS Morale Operations Field Manual (Part 3)
Freedom stations, bribery, and blackmail
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Daniel Banki
May 2023
Old and interesting #5: OSS Morale Operations Field Manual (Part 2)
The use of false pamphlets and forgeries.
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Daniel Banki
Old and interesting #4: OSS Morale Operations Field Manual (Part 1)
Rumors as weapons of war.
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Daniel Banki
April 2023
Old and interesting #3: OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Timeless lessions about human nature from a WWII-era handbook on sabotage
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Daniel Banki
Old and interesting #2: The Great Cabbage Hoax
The anatomy of a fake news story, 1950s edition
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Daniel Banki
Old and interesting #1: Would you catch a venomous snake?
A 1965 social psychology paper on the believability of strong interventions in social science experiments
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Daniel Banki
March 2023
Dumping dilemmas: the lessons of Asunción's Cateura landfill
Navigating the terrain of short-term incentives and long-term outcomes
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Daniel Banki
Breaking the gridlock: La Paz (Bolivia) edition
Policy contagion and the likely effects of a traffic-reduction policy
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Daniel Banki
Book ideas #5: Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter
Finding general lessons about human nature in unexpected places.
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Daniel Banki
February 2023
Tales from three Latin American capitals
Traffic fines guaranteed, marriage vows in emblematic places, and strange gifts that politicians receive
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Daniel Banki
June 2022
Book ideas #4: No good men among the living by Anand Gopal
Black and white thinking, and what to do about it.
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Daniel Banki
February 2022
Book ideas #3: Fariña by Nacho Carretero
Matthew effect in an unexpected place.
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Daniel Banki
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