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Iron Economist

IronEconomist

Saw a new paper on the lead-crime hypothesis, and it is pretty much the perfect randomised intervention. Notes to follow.https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20160056 In this paper they explicitly measured he blood lead levels

Diane Schanzenbach

dwschanz

Here's what we've learned so far about the spike in nonresponse in the Census Household Pulse Survey.Of course, I'm focused on the Q on food sufficiency, but it would be

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) Study: large excess #COVID19 mortality among Swedish residents born in Iraq, Syria, Somalia. March-May 2020, excess mortality rates (vs. 2016-19):Born Iraq, Syria, SomaliaAge 40-64: +220%Age 65+: +205%Born Sweden, Nordics,

it's kat! enjoy my doomsday pastel aesthetic

kathimmel

#art/#history: just another pretty face that isn't just a pretty face... louise brooks (born #otd in 1906) is still an icon, but she was - more importantly - a human

PRASEG

PRASEG

As the whole world now knows, @BorisJohnson has published the government’s 10 Point Plan for a ‘green industrial revolution’. The PM’s @FT piece launching the plan can be found here:https://www.ft.com/content/6c112691-fa2f-491a-85b2

Hadi Taheri

haditaheri

Covid-19 Treatment: Ivermectin“The data shows the ability of the drug Ivermectin to prevent COVID-19, to keep those with early symptoms from progressing to the hyper-inflammatory phase of the disease, and

Steve Guest

SteveGuest

THREAD.March 12: Dr. Anthony Fauci commends President @realDonaldTrump’s travel restrictions: “absolutely” helped, “the right public health call”#TrumpKnew March 15:Dr. Anthony Fauci: the Trump administration has “very positive

Lucy/Lee

sorrowfulnow

Fascists are universally incompetent at all aspects of governance as their only interest is enforcing a system of hierarchy.Anything not directly part of that enforcement is ignored, while anything that

antihero_kate

antihero_kate

1/8 Never forget that when Karl Manke, 77-year-old semi-rural Michigan barber, scared for his livelihood with bills piling up, wanted to open his shop following strict personal protection directives, the

Joshua Weitz

joshuasweitz

A message to the @GeorgiaTech community. Yesterday we had a jump in surveillance positives with a one-time increase to ~2.5% (significantly above recent trends near 1%). Thoughts below

Leeds Museums & Galleries

LeedsMuseums

Scrimshaw: an etching made into bone by a man at sea, usually associated with whale hunting. Maybe the ship on this piece of scrimshaw is the one the man was

Joe Streckert

JoeStreckert

Okay Portland! It's been in the news. I'm going to talk about the Elk statue. The statue is just called "Elk," but almost everyone calls it "The Thompson Elk." It

Nacho Man Sandy Cabbage

TreeBeerd

Coming into the end of the year and seeing all the "best" of the year lists starting, I thought it would be a good idea to remind you that in

Kyleanne Hunter, PhD

RambaKy

VA just released its suicide report ... suicide rates are slightly up ... a thread on some trends I noticed and some potential interventions we should be thinking about https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/data-sheets/2020/2020-National-Vet

Roy 🇮🇳

uugly_naked_guy

Happy 34th birthday to the Greatest no 9 of this generation mi idolo Luis alberto Suarez. I have been watching him since his Liverpool days. since he has a bad

Nicole Bedera

NBedera

The paper that got accepted this weekend? It’s the same one that got the R&R with the list of “writing” problems that were actually about the feminist argument of the

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