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The U.S.' coronavirus outbreak appears to have gone linear, with about 33,000 new cases and 2000 deaths each day. But so far there is no sign of a peak and
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When it comes right down to it, science is the our species' only real weapon against the things that would destroy us. Without science we're unarmed - animals fleeing before
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1/Here's a story from my college days about persuasion and majority rule that I think is instructive for the present moment.When I was a freshman, my dorm was debating whether
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There are going to be a lot of "Bernie lost but his movement is the future" takes flying around in the next few days. That might be true. But it's
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The Bernie movement's obsession with corruption, consent-manufacturing, and "theories of power" seems to bias them toward believing that electoral outcomes are determined by the shadowy machinations of party bosses, rather
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1/Obviously it's too early to speculate on how coronavirus will change our society in the long term. But I have a thought about how it might subtly change gender roles...
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Sunday open question:If you had to choose two fictional characters to be your parents, who would they be? Note: The two do not have to be from the same fictional
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1/OK here's a relatively small and inconsequential thing to distract from coronavirus. The standard narrative of why Bernie lost the 2020 primary is that the Democratic Establishment forced Buttigieg, Klobuchar,
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Some good news. U.S. testing rose today, to 139,613 tests/day. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18oVRrHj3c183mHmq3m89_163yuYltLNlOmPerQ18E8w/htmlview# The daily positive test ratio has generally been trending up, which is bad, because it indica
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Andrew Yang on coronavirus and discrimination against Asian-Americans.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-discrimination/ After thinking long and hard about this article, I'm not sure what I think about it.O
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1/Lots of people are getting interested in industrial policy. That's a good thing. Here is a reading list of good books about industrial policy. 2/The best book to start with
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Hmm. Almost all projected population growth is in Africa, where emissions per capita are low. Rich and middle-income countries, where emissions per capita are high, already have sub-replacement fertility rates.I'm
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