Monday assorted links
The article presents a collection of assorted links covering various topics. It includes discussions on DNA sampling from animal skin parchments and the impact of phone bans in Brazilian schools on test scores. Other topics mentioned are the making of Indian statistics and the implications of iPhone theft in London.
- ▪The article features a variety of links on different subjects.
- ▪One topic discusses the effects of phone bans in Brazilian schools, noting an improvement in test scores.
- ▪Another link addresses what to do if an iPhone is stolen in London.
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| Original publisher | Marginal Revolution |
| Canonical URL | https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/monday-assorted-links-561.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monday-assorted-links-561 |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 16:12:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T16:17:38.240Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T16:17:38.240Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | U6SxIOoc4S5k · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Monday assorted links by Tyler Cowen May 25, 2026 at 12:12 pm 1. Sampling DNA from animal skin parchments. 2. The making of Indian statistics. 3. What happens if your iPhone is stolen in London? (NYT) 4. Brazil school phone bans: “We then show that test scores, which were trending similarly in the two groups prior to the ban, improved by 0.06 s.d. in treatment schools relative to control.” 5. Travels in the Stans. 6. Modifying research paper formats using AI. 0 Comments Facebook Twitter RSS Feed print Comments Sort by Top Sort by Recent Sort by Controversial <article class="blog-comment depth-<%= model.depth %>" id="blog-comment-<%= model.id %>" data-user-vote="<%= model.user_vote %>" data-vote-count="<%= model.vote_count %>" data-vote-total="<%= model.vote_total %>" data-updoots="<%=…
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