Author: nick

[ad_1] Yesterday I was engaged in my typical morning routine. Scanning the internet for interesting stories to read and news to soak in. Reading a few things here and there and watching a couple of videos. I settled in after a bit of this to write an article for my Substack “Shrew Views.” The topic is unimportant—typically something to do with something that caught my fancy during my news scanning, or something someone said to me yesterday about whatever, all mixed in with my learned and experienced knowledge of archetypal psychology. Nothing earth-shattering, mind you, but hopefully an insight some…

[ad_1] When I began my PhD studies around 2000, I carried a clear, romantic vision of what it would mean to be a researcher. I imagined long hours in the lab, the hum of centrifuges and classical music from an old radio my constant companion. I pictured myself making careful observations, formulating novel hypotheses, and designing elegant experiments to unravel nature’s most stubborn secrets. As a pharmacologist, I dreamt of the unique thrill of discovery—that electrifying moment when disparate data clicks into a coherent pattern, revealing a medicinal (or harmful) effect of a drug no one had ever observed before.…

[ad_1] Most 20th century institutions are unfit for 21st century problems. Will this generation’s winning innovators build new ones, or get hoodwinked by the old ones? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Has Chicago Learned Nothing From Jussie Smollett? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Children walking by a destroyed mosque in the Gaza Strip. © 2009 UNRWA Photo by Shareef Sarhan. CC BY-SA 3.0 igo Another month passes, and Gaza is barely in the news: the inert, so-called Board of Peace is doing its job. You might have thought that job involved reconstruction so Gazans could use the water, roads, food markets, hospitals and schools that make life livable, but if so, you would have been mistaken. The Orwellian-named Board of Peace (or Board of Empire or Board of Genocide, whichever is most apt) was intended to blunt public opinion by disappearing Gaza,…

[ad_1] Don't Pretend Iran Deal Is a Win. Don't Waste It, Either [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Warsh's Bold New Change at the Fed [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] To what extent do social media algorithms, and YouTube’s specifically, contribute to user’s views becoming more extreme and even radicalizing? That’s a complicated question, but researchers tried to tackle it and have come up with some interesting results. First let’s define some terms (as the researchers did). An echochamber is a social media information ecosystem (such as a specific forum, blog, or content provider) that shares a common view, ideology, or narrative. The researcher use this precise definition: “a bounded, enclosed media space that has the potential to both magnify the messages delivered within it and insulate them from…

[ad_1] Will Iran 'Behave' in Wake of the Latest Deal? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] From yesterday’s Complaint in Spatz v. Stewart & TheaterMania (S.D.N.Y.): This is an action for libel per se, and false statements causing special damages. Defendant Zachary Stewart, a theater critic writing for Defendant TheaterMania, authored and published a review of a theatrical production written and presented by Plaintiff. The production was a serious, historically grounded drama confronting the Holocaust, the founding of the State of Israel, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the tragedy of a miscarriage, and the racially motivated execution of a Black man for loving a white woman. Yet it was deliberately, falsely, and maliciously described that production…