Weekend Reading, Watching, and Listening Recommendations (December 18, 2020)
Inside the Gates Foundation’s epic fight against COVID; Biden’s Covid-19 Task Force Needs Behavioral Scientists; Communicating statistics in the time of Covid; India's ambitious energy transformation
Read: Inside the Gates Foundation’s epic fight against COVID-19 [via Fast Company]
Read: The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty. A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services. [via MIT Technology Review]
Read: Biden’s Covid-19 Task Force Needs Behavioral Scientists [via Harvard Business Review]
Listen: How AI and Genomics Are Reshaping Farming [via HBR Exponential View]
Listen: Harvard Professor Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?
Watch: The Royal Society | David Spiegelhalter Communicating statistics in the time of Covid. Winner of the 2020 Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture, Professor David Spiegelhalter discusses his work in statistics and how to understand risk with Tim Harford, columnist, broadcaster and author of How To Make The World Add Up.
Watch: How India could pull off the world's most ambitious energy transition