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John Tang @JP_Tang

Assistant Professor, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University đŸ‡łđŸ‡±đŸ‡ŠđŸ‡șđŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡čđŸ‡ŒđŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ

Joined October 2011
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How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years nytimes.com/interactive/2026
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How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years (Gift Article)

Japan’s population fell by more than 3 million over the past five years, a record drop that underscores the depths of the country’s accelerating demographic crisis.

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He Invented the Basque Cheesecake. He Prefers Chocolate. nytimes.com/2026/05/27/world
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He Invented the Basque Cheesecake. He Prefers Chocolate. (Gift Article)

Santiago Rivera is widely credited with creating the “burnt” cheesecake in the 1980s, though he doesn’t love the spinoffs it has spawned. Decades later, he’s preparing to hand over his kitchen to his...

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Nobel laureateJoel Mokyr (Northwestern) delivering the De Vries lecture at the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences on the market of ideas🙌
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This Is Why You’re Drowning in Busywork nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini
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Opinion | This Is Why You’re Drowning in Busywork (Gift Article)

The A.I. revolution involves a huge transfer of labor — not from worker to machine but from worker to you.

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Japan’s New Care Workers: Bodybuilders, Wrestlers and M.M.A. Fighters nytimes.com/2026/04/25/world
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Japan’s New Care Workers: Bodybuilders, Wrestlers and M.M.A. Fighters (Gift Article)

Young athletes are being recruited to plug a staff shortage in Japan’s nursing homes. The results are reshaping elder care.

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‘Wagyu’ Used to Guarantee Quality Beef. What Are You Paying for Today? nytimes.com/2026/04/21/dinin
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‘Wagyu’ Used to Guarantee Quality Beef. What Are You Paying for Today?

Behind the scenes, competing forces battle for the reputation of prestige meat.

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The mass replication studies published in Nature today are insane, exemplary and an enormous pile of work to improve science. It's just so awesome how many people spent time on this in return to be 1/100 coauthors on a thing. Just outstanding 🙌🙌🙌 1/
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Thrilled to be part of two projects that examined reproducibility and robustness that were published in Nature yesterdayđŸ™đŸŒ Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up? nytimes.com/2026/04/01/scien
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Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up? (Gift Article)

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new study finds.

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đŸ§”1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350 coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇
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Why Australia Enshrined ‘a Succulent Chinese Meal’ Rant in Its Archive nytimes.com/2026/03/31/world
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Why Australia Enshrined ‘a Succulent Chinese Meal’ Rant in Its Archive (Gift Article)

A clip of the con man Jack Karlson delivering a theatrical soliloquy while being arrested in 1991 has been deemed one of the country’s important cultural recordings.

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For Australia’s Farmers, Fuel Crisis Comes at ‘Worst Possible Time’ nytimes.com/2026/03/25/world
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For Australia’s Farmers, Fuel Crisis Comes at ‘Worst Possible Time’

Their troubles could cascade across Asia because they export a majority of their products.

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Pulling the Threads of Hong Kong’s Textile Heritage nytimes.com/2026/03/23/arts/
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Pulling the Threads of Hong Kong’s Textile Heritage

At the peak, Hong Kong was one of Asia’s largest textile exporters. Now, visitors can see tangible reminders of that history in several neighborhoods.

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America is a nation of immigrants with a history of exclusion (from @TheEconomist) economist.com/by-invitation/


America is a nation of immigrants with a history of exclusion

Its immigration policy has always been shaped by a conditional, shifting definition of desirability, writes Mae Ngai

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What people get wrong about women’s rights (from @TheEconomist) economist.com/by-invitation/


What people get wrong about women’s rights

Elites should stop assuming that the barriers to progress are the same from Brazil to Bangladesh, writes Alice Evans

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Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This? nytimes.com/2026/03/06/opini
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Opinion | Daryl Hannah: How Can ‘Love Story’ Get Away With This?

The character “Daryl Hannah” in “Love Story” is not even a remotely accurate representation of my life or my conduct — and these kinds of lies don’t go away.

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Your Job May Already Be in Jeopardy nytimes.com/2026/03/05/opini
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Opinion | Mass Hysteria. Thousands of Jobs Lost. Just How Bad Is It Going to Get?

Michael Steinberger on how A.I.’s impact on white-collar jobs may transform politics and society.

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The plastic city that feeds half a billion (from @TheEconomist) economist.com/interactive/18


The plastic city that feeds half a billion

Inside the greenhouses that serve as Europe’s vegetable garden

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Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magaz
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Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change (Gift Article)

The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.

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Pim de Zwart (Wageningen) presenting joint research on drought adaptation in colonial Java @WU_econhist
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Ranked: The World's Top Economies in 1980 vs. 2025

A visual comparison of the world’s largest economies in 1980 vs. 2025, showing how global economic power has shifted.

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