There’s a movement to go away from this to coordinated care, which should include both preventative efforts and wraparound communication between providers to create a more proactive stance for healthcare. But it is still in its infancy - theoretically I’m in such a plan, but they still wind up making it more like a…

“The Drunkard’s Walk” and selected excerpts from “Thinking, Fast and Slow” should be required reading to ground every person who thinks their success is all down to merit. Of course, Kahneman (the author of Thinking) also told the Israeli Air Force to quit looking for reasons one unit gets shot up at a higher rate…

Cite please. Because I’ve never seen a single reference to Obama saying such a Baptist bullshit altar call thing as “God spoke to me” and I can’t find it through Google. He’s talked about how God speaks to us through Scripture, about having humility not to assume God speaks only to us and not others, but he’s never…

I think for guys its the illusion they can make this “uncontrollable” event happen. For women I dunno.

According to multiple sources she was tasked with steam cleaning his pants between appearances - while he was wearing them.

RICO is for going after an organization with legitimate assets you can’t otherwise touch unless you prove a connection between illegal acts and the property/goods. It was useful for going after the Neo-Nazis in Idaho because they actually owned that compound. This is just a straight up hate group, and you can go after…

Well, they do periodically kill cops/threaten law enforcement. Sometimes because they are convinced everyone else will “rise up” and slaughter more cops and eventually trigger all out race war when they do (never happens) sometimes because they want their “martyrdom” to signal the state is out of control (doesn’t…

I’d personally set expectations low. The response to the SOTU is a crap gig - you don’t have an audience like the President has, the President gets weeks to fine tune the speech but the respondent either has to basically wing it or wind up looking like they are living on a different planet (especially with someone who…

I’m hoping some senior members of the Congressional Black Caucus take a knee in silent protest - John Lewis, Elijiah Cummings, folks like that- just because he won’t be able to take it.

As easy as the cut and paste “that was a new tone” pieces have to be, you gotta wonder if it isn’t past the point of diminishing returns for media sites to even run that drivel.

A related factor is motivated cognition - most people if they know which side they intuitively support on an issue, only seek out and believe information that confirms that view. The really amazing thing is that it can be as simple as being assigned an arbitrary side of an issue that makes people credit that side, and…

And if I recall the story beating her before he raped her. And then (as here) paying her off to deny it years after she swore under oath that it was rape.

In an NDA case short of trial everything will be under seal. In a corporate setting (where NDAs used to be most common) when you go to trial it comes down to if the judge will clear the courthouse or not - and they don’t like doing it.

I’m kinda hoping some members of the Congressional Black Caucus take a knee at some point, just to watch Trump lose it.

That’s such a great study (I’m a huge fan of Kahneman), but the other piece of it that doesn’t get mentioned is people think their lives are better well beyond that 75 k threshold - explaining part of why people chase the extra money even though it isn’t actually improving their emotional well being on a daily basis.…

That’s such a great study (I’m a huge fan of Kahneman), but the other piece of it that doesn’t get mentioned is people think their lives are better well beyond that 75 k threshold - explaining part of why people chase the extra money even though it isn’t actually improving their emotional well being on a daily basis.…

Except that Trump has done shit to improve the economy in a meaningful way. The stock market has jumped because businesses think they will have fewer regulatory hurdles and the anticipated profit taking benefits of the tax bill. The indexes have all had a really hot year, but it has been on top of 8 really great years…

These are penalties as a result of a US International Trade Court finding of harm from importing under a law designed to help protect US manufacturers. By almost all accounts they won’t really help manufacturers that much, because the US industry can’t meet demand, but that’s the legal justification. The fact that the…

When I first saw the headline, I assumed Haley was responding to the Stormy Daniels stuff. Why the f would anyone think she’d even find Trump attractive is beyond me. She was the governor of SC, she’s our UN ambassador, she’s a damn power broker in the GOP - she’s not some import he can dazzle with bullshit or someone…

Yep - although my kids got lectured on the distinction (and so much more) by They Might Be Giants album Here Comes Science so there’s hope for the future.