American students are moving toward higher-paying college majors

Links: falling suicide rates, new Emergent Ventures grants, and more

• American students are moving toward higher-paying college majors

• Global suicide rates have fallen 40 percent since the 1990s

• Emergent Ventures grants for metascience policy entrepreneurs and science communicators

• The share of college-educated American women who are married has remained stable over the past 40 years

• The work hour gap between the US and other countries has shrunk due to converging health benefits for the nonemployed

• 17 experts on evidence-based ways to improve global health and development

• Dwarkesh Patel interviews Michael Nielsen on the nature of scientific progress

• Study finds that rapid technological change increases the skill premium

• The Times of London is growing its audience by publishing fewer but more labor-intensive stories

• Roots of Progress is running a ten-week writing course

• How clinical trials became bureaucratic and expensive, and how some researchers are fighting back

• How the lab notebook went from a tool for thinking to a compliance-oriented institutional record

• Matt Clancy has built a web tool showing that small increases in the rate of technological progress are worth trillions

• Countries with better management practices are faster at adopting AI, argues Luis Garicano

• Why it’s so hard to substitute for helium in most of its industrial uses