Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Assistant economics professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
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Ryan McDevitt
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FROM Ryan McDevitt
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Will Ordering From Machines Make Us Fatter? Ordering food for delivery is easier than ever. Smartphone apps like GrubHub, Snapfinger, and Eat24 make immediate gratification only a swipe away. But ordering food from computers instead of humans has a side-effect: We order a heck of a lot more.
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Design and Architecture
Securing Public Spaces, Super Wealthy Asians Vehicles are increasingly being used as weapons, as seen in the London Bridge attack over the weekend and in New York’s Times Square last month. The Compton-based company Calpipe is designing security bollards to help make public spaces safer. And novelist Kevin Kwan satirizes the “crazy rich” Asian jet set and their luxurious tastes in his latest book, “Rich People Problems.”
Bookworm
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Trump says goodbye Paris Accord: What does it mean for U.S. and the planet? President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the landmark international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Trump was to renegotiate a new deal, but will that happen?