Weekend Reading, Watching, and Listening Recommendations (November 27, 2020)

Moderna and Pfizer are reinventing vaccines, starting with Covid; The Right Way to Think About the Future; Communicating About Vaccines; Why incompetent people think they are amazing

1. Read: Moderna and Pfizer are reinventing vaccines, starting with Covid [via the Wall Street Journal]

2. Read: A Better Crystal Ball: The Right Way to Think About the Future [via Foreign Affairs]

3. Read: Did NIMBYs Save Cities? In many ways, slow-growing suburbs encased in regulatory amber function the way greenbelts or urban growth boundaries are supposed to. [via The American Conservative]

4. Listen: Communicating about Vaccines: Prof David Spiegelhalter of Oxford University explores the importance of scientific rigour, listening and building relationships with Professor Heidi Larson - Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project and Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and creator of the Vaccine Knowledge Project.

5. Listen: How brain games and AI can improve HR [via Harvard Business Review]

6. Watch: The logistics challenge of distributing the COVID-19 vaccine

7. Watch: Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

8. Chart of the Week: The world has now developed three effective COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year. The chart below gives some context to show what an achievement this is. It used to take years or decades to get there. [From Our World In Data]