An irregular round up of interesting reads. Most of these made me go "hmmmmm," none of them imply concurrence:
Quote of the Day:
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. – Karl Popper.
The data is signaling a slow-down in payrolls.
Will notes the fascist nature of the crony “Consumer Protection Bureau.”
Childhood health has a correlation to adult conservative versus liberal ideological outlooks. And brain scans of liberals versus conservatives are observably different.
“Problematic news consumption” appears linked to mental health issues.
Losing the First. Americans increasingly seem to be falling out of love with Free Speech and prefer fascism.
Good news! Americans are increasingly in favor of larger families. A hopeful trend for sure.
Ouch. Members of Congress behaving badly.
Long-Covid or long con? Understanding and learning still requires the humility of real science.
More troubling data on the use of puberty-blocking chemicals in minors.
The Bermuda Triangle is so Boomer. Meet the “Alaska Triangle.”
Unhealthy for civil society: One Party has nearly abandoned “religious” affiliation.
A fascinating mediation on the loss of religion in communal life and the “wanting” the void creates.
Revisiting “Sporting Excellence,” distilling 14 attributes of “greatness.”
The relationship between a decline in “independent play” by children and later mental health is studied.
The odd story of the TED company hating Martin Luther King.
Why pandemics are always political – it’s an issue of institutional structure.
A guide to the varied voices and casts in the woke/anti-woke debates.
Elon Musk didn’t read the Constitution (shocker). The President is merely the top administrative bureaucrat, not the nation’s CEO.
“Liquid courage” has now an evidence-based concept.
It was always going to be thus: THC impairs driver safety. And thus, maybe its ok that the young(er) are driving less given the prevalence of impairment in their system.
Is brandishing a copy-cat value amongst officers in blue?
Evidence abounds for the “broken window” approach to community safety.
Exposure to blue light (think tablets or phones) has a profound impact on hormones, potentially disruptive for children.