Eldar Shafir

Aug 23, 2024 | freakonomics.com | Steven Levitt |Sendhil Mullainathan |Eldar Shafir

Episode Transcript Whenever we replay an old episode like we’re doing today with one of my all time favorite conversations with Sendhil Mullainathan, I always add a few words of context at the beginning to give listeners an idea of why we chose this particular episode. And with Sendhil I thought, I’ll just say he’s one of my absolute favorite people in the world.

Jun 20, 2023 | pnas.org | Anuj K. Shah |Jiaying Zhao |Sendhil Mullainathan |Eldar Shafir

Large-scale climate patterns offer preseasonal hints on the co-occurrence of heat wave and O3 pollution in ChinaEdited by Akkihebbal Ravishankara, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; received October 26, 2022; accepted May 6, 2023SignificanceExposure to co-occurrence of air pollution and heat extremes is likely to induce amplified damages to both human health and ecosystem.

Jun 20, 2023 | pnas.org | Anuj K. Shah |Jiaying Zhao |Sendhil Mullainathan |Eldar Shafir

D. Watkins et al., Hyperhomocysteinemia due to methionine synthase deficiency, cblG: Structure of the MTR gene, genotype diversity, and recognition of a common mutation, P1173L. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 71, 143–153 (2002). M.-T. Doolin et al., Maternal genetic effects, exerted by genes involved in homocysteine remethylation, influence the risk of spina bifida. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 71, 1222–1226 (2002). J.-L. Guéant, R.-M. Guéant-Rodriguez, V. J. Kosgei, D.

Jun 12, 2023 | pnas.org | Anuj K. Shah |Jiaying Zhao |Sendhil Mullainathan |Eldar Shafir

AbstractIn 1955, René Dubos famously expressed his “second thoughts on the germ theory”, attributing infectious diseases to various “changing circumstances” that weaken the host by unknown mechanisms. He rightly stressed that only a small minority of individuals infected by almost any microbe develop clinical disease.