. At the heart of the Dunning-Kruger effect is the recognition that overconfidence in ignorance makes people with low ability or knowledge believe they are more capable than they are …
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Mainstream economics has sadly made economics increasingly irrelevant to the understanding of the real world. Trying to contribute to making economics a more realist and relevant science, yours truly launched this blog in March 2011. Now, fourteen years later and with millions of page views, yours truly’s blog is ranked on Top 100 Economics Blogs […]
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Lawmakers’ stock portfolios are on shaky ground, corporate polluters pay up, Meta loses on a very personal privacy trial, and states check up on doctor contracts.
Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper discuss first working together on the Doctor Who revival and reuniting for Big Finish Productions.
Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
David Sirota’s full interview with former federal regulator Ted Siedle on Trump's order allowing 401(k) plans to invest in alternative assets.
Flush with Trump connections, Ballard Partners is D.C.’s new lobbying powerhouse — and its clients are reaping the benefits.
The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists,...
When vaccine research funding is cut, people will die
The post A Brief History of mRNA Vaccines appeared first on Nautilus.
The State Department was told to cut from its human rights reports info on election integrity, corruption, and the expulsion of refugees.
The post Trump Orders State Department to Overlook International Human Rights Abuses appeared first on The Intercept.
Israel’s military leadership has acknowledged that full occupation of Gaza will cause the killing of the remaining captives. But Netanyahu’s government seems to want them dead. In June 2024, after Israel’s army slaughtered over 200 civilians in Gaza’s Nuseirat Refugee Camp, including several execution style killings to extricate a hostage, Noa Argamani, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced a new policy: if Israel soldiers came too close to areas where captives were held, the prisoners would lose their lives. Israel’s refusal to […]
The post Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives appeared first on The Grayzone.
No doubt exists that an entirely different subject has taken over control when it comes to education in scientific methodology in almost the entire field, namely statistics … The value of the statistical regulatory system should of course not be questioned, but it should not be forgotten that other forms of reflection are also cultivated […]
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the civil arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a vote on a Republican-backed congressional redistricting plan, escalating a standoff that has stalled the legislative session.” — CBS News
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President Trump has asked me to redraw the Texas congressional district map to secure five more House seats for Republicans. Texas has always been a state defined by our rugged independence. That’s why, as governor of Texas, it is my job to do whatever President Trump thinks will protect our liberties. I can’t think of anything more Texan than obeying a powerful man in Washington, DC, in the name of individual freedoms.
Sadly, Texas Democratic legislators are trying to undermine these efforts by fleeing the state in order to break quorum. It’s despicable that these elected officials would hightail it out of Texas right when the electorate needs them the most. A Republican would never do that.
The latest podcast produced by the Center for Ethics and Education focuses on political disclosure in the classroom. I think a lot of CTers will find it interesting. Several students were interviewed, and they are quite insightful. For what it is worth, my view is that, in general, when teaching about controversial politically and morally-valenced […]
Monuments to racism license racist violence. White supremacists, for their part, know this well.
The post Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again. appeared first on The Intercept.
Extremist threats are no longer confined to virtual echo chambers but spreading into offline harassment – a phenomenon known as ‘stochastic terrorism', reports Dan Evans
“In this human-made paradise, entertainment reigned supreme, and all forms of leisure had their whispered, rum-breathed price.”
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A semi-regular guest column about regularly ignored places
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Each year, as many as twenty-five million people visit the sacrificial landscape of Pattaya, Thailand. If visitors don’t arrive by air, then they likely take the eight-lane motorway that zips them along the eastern Thai seaboard from Bangkok to the shores of Chonburi province.
They come for rest and relaxation, purportedly. Frantic development over the decades has put Pattaya at a far remove from its past as a pristine, natural coastline. It’s a place made to concede itself. Disuse does not define the area’s state of wild abandonment, but rather the hedonistic exploitation and exhaustion of land and sea in a bargain for economic prosperity.
Many don’t realize that The Gilded Age, the very grand and expensive HBO/Max/HBOMaxAgain show, was actually devised for a very specific audience: quirky early millennial women who studied theater in college and briefly tried their hand at acting before ultimately becoming writers.
That the show seems to have mass appeal is surprising because it was definitely created for that very niche subset of people.
How did HBO/Max/WhatAreWeDoing achieve this? They set the show in 1882. Because they know quirky Xennial women can’t resist a lush period drama. Most of them own at least one corset, though they’re not sure why.
And, of course, quirky Xennial women are here for the historical references. That young artist you just saw onscreen? That was John Singer Sargent. And they knew it. They reached over to poke their husbands, “Do you know who that is? Stanford White! The Jeffrey Epstein of his time!”
O do not askif I am beach body ready. Observe how the folds of my stomach ripplelike the wind-pulled waves. Rub your hands over these pale buttocks,sand-smoothed by time. Note my milk-white limbs like washed up whalebones,stranded and useless. Consider these tufts of hair on my back and shoulderssprouting wildly like sea-grass. And listen to…
Mental health awareness may be having unintended consequences – the conversation needs to shift from vibes to precision
- Video by the Royal Institution
- by Elad Uzan