I’m not sure it holds though. If you see a professional boxer taking down a kid, you don’t say “it took George Foreman to beat a kindergartner.” You can’t even say there was evidence of the prosecution’s ammo being necessary by how close the case was, as this was a complete rout. We can easily sing Deyainu about every…

Soy sauce and molasses make a good marinade and sauce. It even works with the blackstrap I mistakenly bought. If memory serves, this is the base for the “lobster sauce” found in New England Cantonese-American (“Chinese”) restaurants.

I think this will have a pretty big impact on the legal system, although not in a way many people have considered. Since O.J., there’s been a belief that all you have to do is blow a ton of smoke and the idiots in the jury will get confused and decide it’s reasonable doubt (somewhat understandable when you consider…

I think they’re hoping that the jury isn’t savvy enough to differentiate between the two medical testimonies and decide that both sides having their own pet medical experts creates reasonable doubt.

Yeah, I think the whole thing is that the main draw of the film was its immersive world, with the story being secondary to that, I think to the point that it’s obviously not a coincidence that the story and message archetype chosen was someone going into the environment and created culture and learning to value it. I…

Well, at least he didn’t teach some other language, like Gaelic or Hebrew, so at least the school’s in one piece. Amir Mulner was an IDF explosives expert (albeit for the Golani brigade).

In the western world, we typically associate springtime with renewal and festivals of gratitude, and the Islamic calendar is no different

This all seems remarkably ill-conceived. The early ages in particular are equivalent to “prepare your child for reading by rubbing his head with a copy of Moby Dick” (even though that’s basically how the Whole Language theory of literacy instruction, popular with teachers, is held to work, which is why so many kids…

Look at the methods and results. There’s very little actual research on real spread of influenza (their identified studies actually seem to be mostly SARS) and their final model seems to be just showing that the numbers fall quickly in the presence of a mask factor they basically made up. For comparison, here are…

Sorry about the delay, I has a weekend chag and then forgot about it. Also, I should have noted that I meant outside of healthcare workers (who have different dynamics and protocols), and at the epidemiological/spread level. I don’t really have the attention span to judge the various journals, but I put the CDC and…

One big thing in my consideration is that I’m quite fit and working from home anyway, so I have no problem letting literally everyone go ahead of me if it raises my chances of that Israeli nasal spray being approved in time (although I did enter my name into my state’s mass vaccination system to get my parents to…

Tobin’s testimony ended with him pointing out that people who die from fentanyl overdoses go into a coma, but Floyd never did.

One big complaint I’ve heard about public school curricula, and argument for day schools, is that the standard narrative in public schools is that Jewish thought ended 0 C.E. (3760 H.C.), Jewish culture is the eight days around Christmas, and Jewish history is the period from November 9, 1938 to May 8, 1945. This is…

It’s a bit more like the model question I got for my occupational health course: if an employee (a regular smoker, even) comes down with a chronic cough and asthma and you find legionella in the vents, does he get disability? No, legionella causes legionnaire’s disease, not chronic disease, so the building could have…

It’s the same for Asians in Boston, so I think you can figure for most cities by just looking at a map and seeing who lives near the highway incursions into the urban core.

Multiple reviews over the last decade. The decrease this year is just as likely to be general social distancing and things people are doing despite not being preventative of COVID, such as surface cleaning and closing primary schools.

Has anyone explained why public masking is effective for Coronavirus(es?) but not influenza?

Fluorine.

He seems like a man who, having witnessed extreme violence, developed a philosophy of live and, particularly, violence. Like most philosophies, it was absolutely batshit in practice.

Even more than his writing, his contribution to the craft of writing is impossible to understate, for example the role he had in creating the modern MFA program. He is to writing as Jerry Lewis is to film.