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Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
In July 2023, a 25-year-old man named Jagdish Whitten was out for a run in San Francisco. As he crossed a busy street, a car hit him; he did, in his words, "a little flip" over the vehicle, landed in the road, and dragged himself to the curb. Those who ha
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Why kinship societies kill their old
A resident at a "witch camp" in northern GhanaHere is the story of a murder.In northern Ghana, on the western bank of the Volta river, there is a village called Kafaba. There's not much I can say about Kafaba that would make it seem special or remarkable
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Why China got rich and India didn't
Here is a question that I think about a lot.In the year 1950, much as today, the two largest countries in the world by population were China and India. China was a good deal larger at the time, holding 22 percent of the world's population to India's 15 pe
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AI is killing the cheap smartphone
One of the most remarkable things about the last few decades is how cheap computers have gotten.In 1985, if you were a reasonably affluent American, the best computer that you could afford was the IBM PC AT. The PC AT would cost you about $6,000-$19,400 i
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Why Japanese companies do so many different things
Photos from Lars Tunbjörk's "Office" seriesConsider Toto.If you spend much time in American public bathrooms, or rather if you're simply a particularly attentive patron of American public bathrooms, you'll probably have noticed Toto's toilets at some poin
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