Reading Recommendations -September 10

Did Caffeine Spark the Enlightenment, Reformation and Capitalism?; Learning from the urban past; Towards the abolition of animal farming; mRNA vaccines took 60 years to develop!

1. Learning from the urban past: by Ed Glaeser, Harvard University. From infrastructure to institutional development, the histories of the world’s largest cities provide key lessons for those in developing economies [via VoxDev]

2. The Sickness in Our Food Supply by Michael Pollan [via the New York Review of Books]

3. mRNA vaccines took 60 years to develop!

   

4. Did Caffeine Spark the Enlightenment, Reformation and Capitalism? [via WIRED]

5. Towards the abolition of animal farming: A technological solution is in sight to free us from millennia of barbarity. [via NoahOpinion]