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Renato Aquino contracted COVID-19 last year after working on the frontline of the pandemic but is now "on track for a full recovery."

View | Why economists should watch stand-up comedy If you want to understand human behavior – apart from reading microeconomic textbooks you should watch stand-up comedy. 4 min read Sudipta Sarangi Economists would find the new cohort of Indian standup comics exceptional. Abhishek Upamanyu recalls that during his childhood on his grandmother’s death anniversary, he would offer food to the poor. While this is a good idea, it sets up perverse incentives. Share Via Read Full Story My wife has discovered stand-up comedy on YouTube recently. Although, I do not really get to watch much TV, when...

Many years ago, I liked a boy. No, I’m just kidding. This isn’t a column about relationships, although I admit that some (but not all!) of what I am about to say could apply to relationships. For those of you who are my long-time readers, you know that this is the time of year when I review my submission success—the number of times I submitted my work to magazines, and the number of times my work was accepted or rejected—and the lessons I learned along the way. For newer readers, welcome to my world of being a writer and getting the big boot (which is what I call it when I...

Yellow Springs kicked off the beginning of 2020, as always, with the traditional ball drop overseen by Lance Rudegeair; MTFR personnel handed out hot cocoa, and at least one marriage proposal greeted the new year. The Reach Out Free Clinic, which was held each Tuesday evening at Central Chapel AME Church, celebrated a year of operation in early January. The free, donation-based clinic, a satellite location of Reach Out Dayton, closed due to the pandemic in March; the Dayton location shuttered permanently later in the year. Nan Harshaw, longtime chair of the MLK Day Planning Committee, was awa...

Years ago when I was in college, my professors told me, “You should think about teaching. You’d be good at it.” But I didn’t want to teach. I wanted to be a writer. I did become a full-time writer, eventually. In the meantime I became a study abroad administrator, an admissions recruiter, a publications coordinator, a career counselor, and a financial counselor. (I did have a short stint teaching at a university in Mexico early on, but I told myself I wasn’t any good at it — I couldn’t motivate the students who didn’t want to learn, the ones who talked ...