Yours truly has been offering a crash course on causality to fellow researchers at Malmö University over the past couple of years. If you’re curious, the course PowerPoint is available here: Causality – a crash course. Many research questions in the social sciences today are fundamentally about issues of causality. What is behind the rise […]
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Fans and writers have always been obsessed with Doctor Who ending, but the show and the character have always found ways to "regenerate."
Fam and I are visiting my 96-year-old Uncle George tonight. We love him. His complicated and somewhat meandering stories have been music to my daughter’s ears since she fell asleep in a cab at age six listening to him lament his wife’s death. George is my late mother’s only sibling, and the only survivor of […]
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Big Tech’s Pentagon payday, Citizens United strikes back, and more from The Lever this week.
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while the Trump administration spends millions to militarize American cities.
The post Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School appeared first on The Intercept.
Within ten minutes I regretted my decision to walk to Creedon Street in the outback town of Broken Hill. At first, I thought it was the shoes. Stupid things I’d bought on the internet, they were little more than plastic-coated cardboard soles strapped to my ankles with nylon laces. The desert sand scratched between my […]
While honoring the Doctor Who Christmas Special, Steven Moffat posted that he believes the show's return is "inevitable" (but not his).
Charitable trust/archivist Film is Fabulous! has been hinting that they may have found lost episodes of Doctor Who in private collections.
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My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he, who’d been a socialist in his impoverished […]
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The Trump administration has made it clear that it fears mass, nonviolent protests more than anything else.
The post Why the No Kings Protests Matter appeared first on The Intercept.
Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies celebrated Bad Wolf Productions' 10th anniversary, with the producers unveiling a portrait of Davies.
How awe and wonder transform science and you
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The two survivors of a U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean are now being held on a Navy warship.
The post Two Boat Strike Survivors Become First Known Prisoners in Trump’s War on “Narcoterrorists” appeared first on The Intercept.
After shots were fired at a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two protesters.
The post “Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity appeared first on The Intercept.
“The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit the use of the landmark law to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters.” — AP News
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The Supreme Court appears poised to deliver yet another win for the US Constitution by striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that prohibits race-based discrimination when drawing legislative district maps. America no longer has a problem when it comes to voters of certain races being disenfranchised, and you can tell it’s not an issue by how great race relations are in America right now.
What strikes me repeatedly when examining the results of randomised experiments is how closely they resemble theoretical models. Both share a fundamental limitation: they are constructed under artificial conditions and struggle with the trade-off between internal and external validity. The greater the control and artificiality, the higher the internal validity — but the lower the […]
The former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested
Doctor Who EP Jane Tranter responded to writer Robert Shearman's "really rude" comments while explaining where things stand with Disney.
John Maynard Keynes believed that ideas, hospitality, travel, knowledge and science should move freely between nations. if a country could reasonably produce something physical it needed, it should. Trade should exist, but be kept to a minimum. I’d like to highlight something Matt Stoller (the anti-trust guy) recently wrote: In May of 2020, the Chinese […]