It is instructive to consider cases in which most people readily accept causal claims in the absence of randomized experiments. Nowadays, few people doubt the effects of tobacco smoking on lung cancer. But in the 1950s, tobacco lobbyists embraced the idea that a genetic predisposition caused both a tendency to smoke and lung cancer … […]
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My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I feel, by the way, like I’m introducing myself at a very strange AA-like meeting with lousy coffee.) As with people who have substance abuse disorders, I’m part of a very large club. After all, there are weapons manufacturers and subcontractors in just about every congressional district in the country, so that members of Congress will never forget whom they are really working for: the military-industrial complex. Using the vernacular of the day, perhaps it’s particularly on target to say that our whole country suffers from Militarism Abuse Disorder or (all too appropriately) MAD. I must confess that I don’t like to admit to my military dependency. Who does? In my... Read more
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There are several common lines of inquiry when someone learns you’re vegan. These scripted responses will spare everyone a tedious conversation and might even make you less annoying at dinner parties (but probably won’t).
Where do you get your protein?
From peanut butter, seitan, and the ten thousand french fries I eat every time I join my non-vegan friends out for dinner.
Would you break your veganism if you were stranded on a desert island and had to choose between eating animals and starving to death?
No, I’d survive on a nutritious diet of moral self-righteousness. Okay, fine, and a single guppy that lived a full happy life and died of natural causes.
The delayed and limited Russian retaliation in the Kursk offensive has strengthened Kyiv’s argument that Putin’s “red lines” are mere scare tactics designed to deter Ukraine’s allies from supporting deeper strikes into Russian territory
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino boasted that the World Cup would be carbon neutral - here's what really happened after the final whistle
The inquiry has dismissed the increasing body of concern around the legitimacy of the verdicts as "noise". It is anything but
When no formal theory is available, as is often the case, then the analyst needs to justify statistical specifications by showing that they fit the data. That means more than just “running things.” It means careful graphical and crosstabular analysis … When I present this argument … one or more scholars say, “But shouldn’t I […]
Last weeks pagers exploded all over Lebanon. They were pagers bought by Hezbolah, but most of them were not used by military personnel or even by Hezbollah members, though many were.
The attacks were set up to be particularly nasty. Small ball bearings were embedded in the pagers. First the pager would buzz. The person would grab it, bring it up to their face so they could look at the screen, where they would see an error message.
Then the pager would explode. The most common injuries were maiming (the hand), terrible facial wounds, and eye-injuries. I don’t know what percentage caused permanent vision loss but I saw one interview with a surgeon who said he’d removed more eyes in the last day than he had in a career of over twenty years.
Civilians, women and children were hurt.
In case you were wondering how The Great Businessman is doing: It would appear that now that the lock out period is over, Trump or other big stock holders are dumping stock. Too bad about the suckers and losers.
A conversation between Maya Gabeira and Lorenzo Bertelli.
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The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe.
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