Tuesday's Assorted Links
Online shopping, Delta dumping, computer science graduates, electric vehicles, and .ai web domains
Hi y’all! Here are five stories from this week that contained some neat applications of economic principles or are related to teaching:
US online shoppers are seeing an uptick in order cancellations due to the end of the de minimis exemption [NBC News]
Delta Air Lines agreed to pay ~$79 million for dumping about 15,000 pounds of fuel over schools and homes in Los Angeles back in 2020 [Quartz]
Recent computer science grads are struggling to find work as Silicon Valley pulls back on entry-level hiring [The New York Times]
Electric vehicle sales soar as people rush out to buy new cars with the $7,500 tax credit coming to an end [CNBC]
Anguilla earns 37% of its national government revenue from tourism and 23% from selling its .ai web address domain [BBC]
Many of us still have an old TI-83 or TI-84 tucked in a drawer somewhere around the house. Despite free apps like Desmos and competing models from Casio and HP, Texas Instruments calculators continue to dominate classrooms. Why? The answer has less to do with features and more to do with economics.
How Texas Instruments Won Math Class
Millions of students are back in the classroom. New notebooks, fresh pencils, maybe even a laptop upgrade. But for many, there’s also an old friend tagging along: the graphing calculator.
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