Although from what I’ve seen the data is not super clear or definitive, it also seems that those who receive a second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine—beyond avoiding serious or even moderate illness even if they are one of the unlucky 5% who still get COVID—are also much less likely to spread it to others…

Just wanted to add—-and it pains me somewhat to admit this—but one thing that elements of the Trump administration did get right and had to sign off on was the compression of the vaccine approval process based on overlapping the typically sequential elements. And even before the completion of Stage 2 and Stage 3…

In case I can actually help some parents out there (rather than you child-hating cynical bastards more likely to be reading this...jk) here’s what I can tell you as professor of Child and Adolescent Studies with a Ph.D. in Child Development.

Good points. Even BP’s analysis has a fairly big margin or error in it. I suppose we will know for sure where we are at once COVID is fully in the rear view mirror and we see which effects were temporary and which weren’t. Some percentage of work-from-home accommodations will become permanent (as some companies and…

Nope you are right, the author’s notion can be applied in a literal meaning of the words sense, but the concept of peak oil had to do with supply of extractable oil. What’s interesting in the BP analysis, of course, is that even 5 years ago, the thinking was we would hit peak oil at the point when oil…

That was a good read Mr. Kahn. I’ll also say that—at least anecdotally—your experience was not surprising. There have been multiple, well-publicized, cases of female reporters, in particular, responding to sexist comments and getting apologies in return. My colleague researches online bullying and she used Facebook to…

I once balled my eyes out for an hour straight listening to No Ordinary Love on a continuous loop driving back from LAX after dropping of my girlfriend at the time. A time when, as an 20 year old very macho, hard ass (read: dumb) male, I thought crying was a sign of mental illness. Sade is still one of only a few…

Bingo and well said. I actually had an in-class discussion with my students where that back and forth went down more down like that more or less. When the states’ rights issue came up, I asked, the right to do what? The student actually had a reply—and it was something like “the right to conduct their own internal…

the numbers are bad—-and unacceptable—but not quite as bad as that. The only overwhelming majority in that linked to article was based on Lowen’s informal poll of school teachers—which is horrifying enough, and may explain why the Southern Poverty Law center found in a 2018 report that “only 8 percent of high school…

Mr. Harriot...right on so many levels, I just want to sincerely thank you for succinctly laying all of that out. For nearly 20 years I’ve been arguing essentially the same thing in Higher Ed (my specific bag is figuring out how to close equity gaps in academic outcomes, e.g. retention and graduation rates), and time…

So...to be frank, I could care less about Gates previous history of crushing competitors at the moment, given that unlike any billionaire I can think of, the billions in his account have and will continue to have a greater positive impact on the world’s public health (including the substantial sums of money he is…

You are right It is incorrect...posted about it but in the greys.  The average in the U.S. is about 30 kWh/day

Hi...not sure where you got the figure for average power consumption for U.S homes.  The figures for 2018 were closer to 11,000 kWh per year, a touch over 900 per month, and so around 30 kWh per day.  This bike’s battery as a back-up wouldn’t get you through a typical day.  But I still like the idea very much.

While happy that the tenacious, albeit clunky, process of scientific self-policing will likely win out once again—-I am disappointed by two things 1) The Lancet—-like a lot of other prominent medical journals lately—seems compelled to publish COVID-19 studies at an accelerated clip and I wonder what that’s doing to…

I’d be really interested to get a bit more context or explanation as to why Dr. Smith’s article is getting this kind of buzz right now. Every one of those questions have been levied as critiques or cautions re evolutionary psychology since I was a psycho-bio undergrad over 25+ years ago. And this idea that folks use…

The Los Alamos paper—albeit in pre-peer-review form—-is pretty damn solid, as are the folks behind it. One thing the Los Alamos lab generally does not issue is hasty analyses. Furthermore, everything that is mentioned in this post was already well known issues and I am sure were very much considered by the authors.…

JT...I think you missed another utility scenario from your brilliant idea....dump truck!!  

I hate being driven to this position, as I’m an academic/ social scientist and truly (perhaps naively) believe in the power of education and working towards an informed population in the service of healthy behaviors. However.... sometimes you just have to fucking legislate to save people from themselves and for the…

I agree with Kyree’s reply below. The enthusiast base (where we presume most manual buyers come from) does not seem to be shrinking relative to the continued, yearly reduction in the percentage of a particular model that still has a manual option for sale in the U.S. Not to mention the number of entire model lines…

A little surprised that the article didn’t mention that another of her great distinctions was as a member of the “Founding Mothers” of NPR, whose other surviving members are Linda Wertheimer, Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg (all of whom have been eulogizing her all day). What they accomplished in giving NPR its…