link roundup

• USAID cuts could create a TB superbug. Seems bad.

• Strep A - yes, strep throat - kills more people than brain cancer.

• Dictators manipulate statistics to overstate the performance of the economy.

• A Stanford lab found an alternative to Ozempic using regex.

• No democracy has both immigration that is popular and relatively non-selective.

• Obviously Heathrow should have a third runway. Gatwick should also have a second one.

• Borders are not exogenous, even in sub-Saharan Africa; you cannot use them as a natural experiment.

• Delivery robots are banned in the UK because of a law from 1835 about carriages.

• At the 2012 Regional Festival of Skiing in Kazakhstan, officials accidentally played “Living La Vida Loca” instead of the Kazakh national anthem.