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Recommended by Mary Pat Campbell

A professional pricer bringing common cents to an ever-changing world

Sumo Statistics by Meep, aka Mary Pat Campbell, an American actuary who is doing her own brand of sumo analysis. I love the joy of sumo, so Ura is my favorite rikishi. Hakkeyoi!

This is my other substack, to split off my sumo obsession.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Sumo Kaboom

About all things sumo.

My favorite sumo podcast! Lots of fun, and great for beginners!

- Mary Pat Campbell

The PolicyViz Newsletter

A bi-weekly newsletter dedicated to helping you do a better job processing, analyzing, sharing, and presenting your data.

Jonathan Schwabish's substack, with lots of good tips on data visualization.

- Mary Pat Campbell

HeyJackass!

Statistics, metrics and visualizations chroniclining the Chicago values of crime, murder & mayhem.

Long-running keeper of shooting stats in Chicago, real-time.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Sensible Medicine

Common sense and original thinking in bio-medicine

An evidence-based site with respect to medicine, with a healthy dose of skepticism.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

A podcast about language, with host John McWhorter.

John McWhorter with interesting insights on language (and especially the English language). I've been a longtime fan of his linguistics lectures.

- Mary Pat Campbell

OpenTheBooks

By Open the Books

Transparency revolutionizes U.S. public policy and politics.

Digs into the numbers of how public funds are spent

- Mary Pat Campbell

Pension Questions

By Larry Pollack

Essays on Retirement Plans and Pension Finance

Fellow actuary covering public pension issues -- check out what he has to say about the new pension measure coming to actuarial reports in 2024!

- Mary Pat Campbell

Virginia's Newsletter

By Virginia Postrel

Commerce, culture, and curiosity

Long Story Short

By Liz Farmer

The world of government taxes and spending is weird and complicated. I explain it all here--in tasty and easily digestible bites. (Opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)

Liz Farmer's newsletter -- long-time reporter on public finance, with solid facts on this sphere.

- Mary Pat Campbell

Actuarial Tutor

By John Lee

Maths, stats and actuarial comedy & memes

The funny side of actuaries (I swear, we have one!)

- Mary Pat Campbell

Wood House 76

By Jessica Hockett

Independent researcher focused on COVID events in early 2020, with an emphasis on the New York City death spike. Writing from a wood house.

More is Different

By Dan Elton

Explorations centered around how to accelerate progress in science & technology to realize a prosperous and exciting sci-fi future. Problems are solvable - so let's solve some!

Vinay Prasad's Observations and Thoughts

Medicine, Oncology, Health Policy

The Pillar

News and analysis covering the Catholic Church.

Solid reporting on the Catholic Church, as well as explainers and data. Entertaining podcasts!

- Mary Pat Campbell

going it alone

By Michele Catalano

A newsletter about life and love and loss, about music and sports and parenting. At least twice weekly

Astral Codex Ten

By Scott Alexander

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Opera Daily

An email that makes you love opera.