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När Finanspolitiska rådet för några veckor sedan kritiserade regeringen för att inte ha följt sina egna (rampolitiska) ekonomiska regler, kunde den socialdemokratiske skuggfinansministern Mikael Damberg uppenbarligen inte låta bli att ta tillfället i akt och i populistisk anda ondgöra sig över att “våra barn och barnbarn kommer behöva betala för att svenska politiker i dag […]
Research is uncovering the way music can calm the brain and there are techniques to help you amplify its emotional power
- by Stefan Koelsch
Recently stumbled across a thread by someone who dug deeply into the most recent data from Britain. It’s pretty abysmal, but what’s most interesting is the notes: There’s no systemic testing for either covid or long covid any more; Long Covid is often diagnosed as something else; You can have organ damage from Covid without […]
I find Card No. 160’s nomenclature interesting. It’s not steak, because it’s lamb. So is it “Spartan” as in frugal or “Spartan” as in Greek? I figure it’s a Greek thing. Lamb isn’t any cheaper than beef. And this lamb-tomato combo has appeared more than once in the series: See: Anyway, let’s get into CardContinue reading 160. Spartan Steak
How did the most influential friendship in the history of psychoanalysis fall apart? The historic break-up of Freud and Jung
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When I was six, I met my sister: her quiet question sparked a bond that took us from foster agency to home
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Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now Jonathan Saul, March 10, 2026 [Reuters, via gcaptain] The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war […]
På en pressträff i fredags meddelade L-ledaren Simona Mohamsson att hon vill ge Sverigedemokraterna ministerposter. Det var en tragisk dag för liberalismen. Men på ett personligt plan gör det också ont att se de personer jag fann liberalismen med, vara de som begraver den. Jag minns hur jag som ny Lufare hörde äldre medlemmar stolt berätta […]
Jürgen Habermas, en av vår tids största filosofer, somnade idag in, 96 år gammal. För oss som växte upp med Frankfurtskolan var Habermas mer än en akademiker. Han var en röst som sa att förnuftet inte behövde överges bara för att det hade missbrukats. Att samtalet mellan människor fortfarande kunde rädda demokratin. När det kändes […]
A helpful intuition for understanding ‘collider bias’ — the spurious correlation induced when one controls for a common effect rather than a common cause — can be found in modern dating behaviour. In a population at large, it is reasonable to assume that attractiveness and personality are independent. Mean people are not necessarily attractive, nor […]
Traditionally, analysts use data on stopped individuals to study bias by computing the difference in violence rates between stopped minority and white civilians, while controlling for observable differences between these two sets of encounters. We term this the “naïve estimator” … However, without further assumptions, this quantity will have no causal interpretation so long as […]
A spacecraft crashes for mankind, lawmakers take gunmakers to court, broadband access gets broader, and a big state buys up bad debt.
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Who is winning the war in Iran? For the first few days of the conflict — during which the United States and Israel rained hellfire down on residential blocks, military sites and civilian infrastructure, and assassinated key political figures including the Supreme Leader — few would have said Tehran. As the world’s most powerful militaries […]
When Royal Mail workers hear about their job in the news these days, it tends to be only bad news. When poor delivery rates, collapsing service quality or Ofcom statements are reported with depressing regularity, the workforce are seeing what they’ve known for too long. But what helps even less is the response from Royal […]