Weekend Reading, Watching, and Listening Recommendations (December 4, 2020)

Rethinking resilience: 10 priorities for governments; A Big Breakthrough for AI; Why Women Are Disproportionately Impacted By The Pandemic; The Politician Transforming China’s Climate Policy

1. Read: Rethinking resilience: Ten priorities for governments [via McKinsey]

2. Read: The Antibiotics Business Is Broken—But There's a Fix. Attempts to develop new antibiotics are failing because the projects aren't profitable. To make new drugs, it seems, pharma companies need more money. [via Wired]

3. Read: Dry Ice Is Hotter Than Ever. Solid carbon dioxide has long been essential to manufacturing, food processing, and high-school theater. Now it’s a key part of the race to get America vaccinated. [via The Atlantic]

4. Read: One of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of recent times: ‘The game has changed.’ AI triumphs at solving protein structures [via Science]

5. Listen: Why Women Are Disproportionately Impacted By The Pandemic Economy [via The Diane Rehm Show]

6. Listen: Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson: Economics of AI, Social Networks, and Technology

7. Watch: The Politician Transforming China’s Climate Policy: Xie Zhenhua is probably the most influential politician in China when it comes to shifting the country’s climate policy over the past decade. As China’s lead negotiator at United Nations Climate Change Conferences, he’s been critical to forging agreements on the global stage.

8. Watch: The Power of Data Journalism: How the Financial Times produces such informative visualisations

9. Chart of the Week: Electricity from utility-scale solar photovoltaics cost $359 per MWh in 2009. Within just one decade the price declined by 89% and the relative price flipped: the electricity price that you need to charge to break even with the new average coal plant is now much higher than what you can offer your customers when you build a wind or solar plant. [via Our World in Data]