All Posts By

bubmag

Quotation of the Day… Protectionism

Quotation of the Day…

… is from pages 42-43 of the May 9th, 2020, draft of the forthcoming monograph from Deirdre McCloskey and Alberto Mingardi, The Illiberal and Anti-Entrepreneurial State of Mariana Mazzucato: Profits have the latent function (as the sociologists put it) of sending out memos concerning whether resources are being used badly…
bubmag
May 21, 2020
Apple and Google’s COVID-19 notification system won’t work in a vaccum Project Maven

Apple and Google’s COVID-19 notification system won’t work in a vaccum

Last month, before Google and Apple announced their joint effort to enable COVID-19 exposure notifications, I wrote about the trouble with using Bluetooth-based solutions for contact tracing. Chief among the issues is getting a meaningful number of people to download any app in the first place, public health officials told…
bubmag
May 21, 2020
South Africa: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Celebrates World Bee Day Bees

South Africa: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Celebrates World Bee Day

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development joins the world and in particular the horticultural community and beekeeping community in celebrating the World Bee Day today. It is important to acknowledge and recognise the role of honeybees in the agricultural sector and their benefit to humankind. As we…
bubmag
May 21, 2020