Cavalcade of Mammals

Donna and Walt audio: A Series of Unlikely Events

Americans are split on buying a house where the prior owners were murdered
Nearly two in five Americans say they believe that ghosts (36%), demons (37%), and psychics (37%) exist. Less than half of Americans say each one doesn’t exist. Far fewer believe in the existence of vampires (7%) and werewolves (7%); more than 80% of Americans say vampires and werewolves do not exist.

Panic! On the Editorial Page: Breaking down a “cancel culture” scare story by Michael Hobbes

I’m a Longtime Professor. The Real Campus “Free Speech Crisis” Is Not What You Think. I’ve never seen classrooms like mine in the pages of the Times. by Lucas Mann

“Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19”, Nature, Feb 7 2022

The Other Speed Trap: America’s traffic laws hurt the poor, and don’t really deter anyone. But what if traffic fines scaled with income? by Brett Simpson

How To Keep Enforcers Like Police, Military And Spies Under Control By Ian Welsh

The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence, pre-print

Suburban Chicago McMansions Follow a Dark Logic Even I Do Not Understand

Which glue to use: This to That

Childhood Leukemia Was Practically Untreatable Until Dr. Don Pinkel and St. Jude Hospital Found a Cure: A half century ago, a young doctor took on a deadly form of cancer—and the scientific establishment

Orrery (Earth, Moon, and Sun) project plans By amandaghassaei

Built to Lie: A new book about the Boeing 737 MAX disaster exposes the company’s allergy to the truth. by Maureen Tkacik

“fuzzy Wuzzy” bath soap grew filaments of aluminum hydroxide, link.

36 Most Clever Cooking Tips I Learned This Yearby Hannah Loewentheil

COVID-19 vaccination by county vote in 2020

Designing a Workflow For Thinking by Steven Johnson
Easy Focus Stack in Linux
Who Goes Fascist? A Political Psychologist Explains. Kristen Renwick Monroe looks at rescuers, bystanders, and perpetrators to understand why people do unspeakable acts. by Linda Mannheim

Reuters unmasks Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials by LINDA SO and JASON SZEP. Reporters track down criminals who made violent threats who police ignored.

GO client for linux, Sabaki

The ultra-wealthy have made full use of Roth individual retirement accounts. Here’s how you can do the same.

This Is How Many Calories You Burn on a Hilly Hike

60 Minutes Helps Andrew Sullivan’s Whitewashing: The blogger gets some prime time help with rewriting history by Jeet Heer

Raccoon Was Once a Thanksgiving Feast Fit for a President. Calvin Coolidge refused to cook the raccoon sent to him, but the critter was a beloved staple for many Americans. by Jason Daley

Flourless chocolate cake recipe

I’m Confused Why All These People Are Quitting Jobs That Pay No Money and Make Them Want to Die by Chas Gillespie

Chicago Tool Library, South side

Plan C, information on access to mifepristone and misoprostol

Typical Employee Equity Levels
The 10 commandments of salary negotiation

Why $15 minimum wage is pretty safe. And why economists changed their minds on the minimum wage. by Noah Smith

Frank Wilhoit: The Travesty of Liberalism: “There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Coqz Heaumez, or Helmeted Cock

The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism: Scare stories on “left-wing illiberalism” display a familiar pattern. by Michael Hobbes

Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks
by Wendy Molyneux
COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States

Make Your Best Oktoberfest by Josh Weikert

semaglutide, weight loss of 20%, injectable drug, peptide analog. semaglutide + cagrilintide in trials, more weight loss. bimagrumab, in trials, causes weight loss and gain of muscle.

Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine crowd’s latest COVID drug, finds ‘no effect whatsoever’
1,300 year old fish weirs on the Vancouver coast
Huperzine A inhibits the breakdown of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine by the enzyme acetylcholinesterase.

Webb’s Testing is Complete. Now it Begins the Journey to the Launch Site. Nov launch at the earliest.

Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted.
A Short Talk about Richard Feynman (2005) by Stephen Wolfram

Adding an electrical sub-panel:

How to Install an Electrical Subpanel
How to Install a Subpanel

Battle on the Battleship: 5 Times Crews of the Deadliest Warships Decided to Revolt: Think mutiny by Robert Farley

Bizarre Paintings Of Mecha Robots And Werewolves Attacking East European Peasants Of The Early 20th Century by Polish artist Jakub Rozalski
2019 Sequencing Tech Speculations: Will We Actually See New Entrants?

Novel Benzodiazepine-Like Ligands with Various Anxiolytic, Antidepressant, or Pro-Cognitive Profiles, link.
-Improves mood and age-related memory loss.

Under the Boot: Max Boot’s conversion narrative proves one thing—he hasn’t changed a bit. by Lyle Jeremy Rubin

Kompromat: Or, Revelations from the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort’s Hacked Texts. by Maya Gurantz

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? by Rowan Jacobsen

It was already well established that rates of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and overall mortality all rise the farther you get from the sunny equator, and they all rise in the darker months. Weller put two and two together and had what he calls his “eureka moment”: Could exposing skin to sunlight lower blood pressure?

Sure enough, when he exposed volunteers to the equivalent of 30 minutes of summer sunlight without sunscreen, their nitric oxide levels went up and their blood pressure went down.

A Brad DeLong explains why it’s time to give democratic socialists a chance
“The baton rightly passes to our colleagues on our left.”

Paul Krugman Asked Me About Modern Monetary Theory. Here Are 4 Answers: Deficit levels, interest rates and the tradeoff between fiscal and monetary policy. by Stephanie Kelton

Stephen Wolfram: Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO
CEOs don’t play much of a role in driving stock price performance, and the “aligned incentives” of equity incentive pay don’t change behavior in any way that benefits shareholders. The “best and brightest” — those executives with the most dazzling CVs and track records — don’t perform any better than less credentialed executives.

Harmony of Means and Ends: “theory of politics” by Cosma Shalizi

Socialists Win Big in Chicago: In city elections this week, progressive candidates shocked the Democratic machine. by Miles Kampf-Lassin

Review of Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann
Kaufmann focuses on the “ethno” part [in ethnonationalism], arguing that mainstream politicians need to more openly cater to white concerns about cultural and demographic change if they wish to beat back the far-right tide.

Potluck Economics from Existential Comics

Number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. declined over the past decade

Conversion of the solar fuel from norbornadiene to quadricyclane uses sunlight, reversed by a catalyst to release heat. ref, news.

Sleep is still a mystery.

Mac OSX Bash Profile

Recent US election results:
2016 President:
Donald J. Trump 63.0 million votes
Hillary R. Clinton 65.8 million votes

In 2018, Americans got some of what they want:
Democratic House candidates 59.0 million votes
Republican House candidates 50.3 million votes