{"id":1191,"date":"2019-02-04T13:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2019-03-21T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:30:07","slug":"links-for-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Links for February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/designyoutrust.com\/2016\/12\/bizarre-paintings-of-mecha-robots-attacking-east-european-peasants-of-the-early-20th-century\">Bizarre Paintings Of Mecha Robots And Werewolves Attacking East European Peasants Of The Early 20th Century by Polish artist Jakub Rozalski<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/omicsomics.blogspot.com\/2019\/01\/2019-sequencing-tech-speculations-will.html\">2019 Sequencing Tech Speculations: Will We Actually See New Entrants?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Novel Benzodiazepine-Like Ligands with Various Anxiolytic, Antidepressant, or Pro-Cognitive Profiles, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karger.com\/Article\/Abstract\/496086\">link<\/a>.<br \/>\n -Improves mood and age-related memory loss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebaffler.com\/latest\/under-the-boot-rubin\">Under the Boot: Max Boot&#8217;s conversion narrative proves one thing\u2014he hasn\u2019t changed a bit. by Lyle Jeremy Rubin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/kompromat-or-revelations-from-the-unpublished-portions-of-andrea-manaforts-hacked-texts\/#!\">Kompromat: Or, Revelations from the Unpublished Portions of Andrea Manafort\u2019s Hacked Texts. by Maya Gurantz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2380751\/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science\">Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? by Rowan Jacobsen<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u201ceureka moment\u201d: Could exposing skin to sunlight lower blood pressure?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/3\/4\/18246381\/democrats-clinton-sanders-left-brad-delong\"><br \/>\nA Brad DeLong explains why it\u2019s time to give democratic socialists a chance<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cThe baton rightly passes to our colleagues on our left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-03-01\/paul-krugman-s-four-questions-about-mmt\"><br \/>\nPaul 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 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.stephenwolfram.com\/2019\/02\/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure\">Stephen Wolfram: Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestor.com\/article\/b1db3jy3201d38\/The-MBA-Myth-and-the-Cult-of-the-CEO\">The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO<\/a><br \/>\nCEOs don\u2019t play much of a role in driving stock price performance, and the \u201caligned incentives\u201d of equity incentive pay don\u2019t change behavior in any way that benefits shareholders.  The \u201cbest and brightest\u201d \u2014 those executives with the most dazzling CVs and track records \u2014 don\u2019t perform any better than less credentialed executives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bactra.org\/weblog\/778.html\">Harmony of Means and Ends: &#8220;theory of politics&#8221; by Cosma Shalizi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/socialists-progressives-chicago-election-rahm-emanuel\/\">Socialists Win Big in Chicago: In city elections this week, progressive candidates shocked the Democratic machine. by Miles Kampf-Lassin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/2\/26\/18196429\/trump-news-white-nationalism-hazony-kaufmann\">Review of Whiteshift by Eric Kaufmann<\/a><br \/>\nKaufmann focuses on the \u201cethno\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/existentialcomics.com\/comic\/280\">Potluck Economics from Existential Comics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/2018\/11\/27\/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-total-dips-to-lowest-level-in-a-decade\/\"><br \/>\nNumber of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. declined over the past decade<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/US_immigration_2019.png\" alt=\"US_immigration_2019\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Conversion of the solar fuel from norbornadiene to quadricyclane uses sunlight, reversed by a catalyst to release heat.  <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlehtml\/2018\/ee\/c8ee01011k\">ref<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/trevornace\/2018\/11\/06\/scientists-reveal-strange-molecule-that-can-store-suns-energy-for-18-years\">news<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep is still a mystery.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/1345\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/xkcd_1345.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/natelandau.com\/my-mac-osx-bash_profile\/\">Mac OSX Bash Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent US election results:<br \/>\n2016 President:<br \/>\nDonald J. Trump 63.0 million votes<br \/>\nHillary R. Clinton 65.8 million votes<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Americans got some of what they want:<br \/>\nDemocratic House candidates 59.0 million votes<br \/>\nRepublican House candidates 50.3 million votes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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