Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning. I’m Gen X and I generally turn on closed captioning for any movie or show these days.
March 22, 2019
A multicellular way of life for a multipartite virus. Holy hell viruses are weird.
A Beautiful If Evil Strategy. Someone who understands the system and is therefore not a blithering idiot.
March 21, 2019
March 20, 2019
As expected, we found a positive association between childhood musical enrichment and musical achievement in adulthood. Interestingly, however, the total variance in musical achievement as well as the relative importance of genetic influences increased with a higher level of musical enrichment. Training makes better people even better (increasing achievement and likely cognitive inequality).
Loading Dock Manifesto. Cripes, that is good writing, and I rarely say that.
Surprise medical bills lead to liens on homes and crippling debt. The entire economy is becoming more and more scam-based.
March 19, 2019
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March 15, 2019
One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000%. Economy based on scams and “experts.” Great.
We Can Thank Agriculture and Soft Food for the ‘F’ Word, Claims Provocative New Study. I find this fairly likely. Morphology shapes phonology.
March 14, 2019
Cancer Patients Are Getting Robotic Surgery. There’s No Evidence It’s Better. High-tech surgical robots aren’t an improvement over traditional operations, the F.D.A. warns. For some patients, the robots may be worse. But see, they can charge you 10x as much. That’s “better” in their eyes.
Colbert Smears Tulsi Gabbard To Her Face While Telling Zero Jokes. Establishment patsy, like anyone else who makes it onto TV.
With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13’s father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube. Most media companies would be fine with rolling back to 1990.
March 13, 2019
You can simultaneously think markets are a useful civic tool and recognize obvious, egregious failures. Alas, most people can’t actually hold two ideas that conflict in some way in their head at once.
Modern Monetary Theory: Democrats Should Try New Economic Ideas. QE did not work out fine: massive asset inflation, bubble.