This week I learned about the Baumol effect. It says that wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth. Interesting.

I also wanted to read this article seems to be highly relevant and interesting… and I love Ben Recht’s writing. However, in the end I did not read it. Hopefully next week! Instead I read about personalized disaster warnings, which is, of course, also highly relevant and interesting. ) looked a bit into TS-Arena, which is a very cool project — specially, since tirex performs so well ;). I also skimmed this research article about the importance of network effect (which are typically neglected with lumped models). I always found the network view on riverine systems interesting, but never worked on it. I am still not sure what comes out of it, but definitely interesting to think about.

I also watched stuff. Most importantly, I found a very good 3 part series by Michael McLain about the history of hydrology (1,2,3). It is very short. So by necessity it leaves out many things, but it is interesting to see how much breath Michael is able to cover in less then an hour. I also watched three amazing skateboard videos by Brett Novak (Jonny Giger, Kilian Martin, and Andy Anderson) and a crazy biking video. This video shows a DYI telescope, this one talks about antique frontier knifes, and this one why it is so difficult to control rivers. All cool stuff.

Lastly, I highly recommend to look into old unreal tournament 2004. It can now be played completely legally on windows, mac, and linux — and it is just a super fun and, for me, nostalgic game.