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On hydroxychloroquine, expertise, and the power of persuasion.
Hydroxychlorquine doesn’t work, unless you’re trying to give yourself heart trouble. It’s good for that.
American Journal of Epidemiology, catch covid again, chloroquine, confirmation bias, coronavirus, Covid, covid mortality, Covid twice, Covid-19, cytotoxic, early treatment, epidemiology, getting infected twice, Harvey Risch, high risk hydroxychloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, hydroxychloroquine covid, hydroxychloroquine study, in vitro hydroxychloroquine, jimsonweed, mild symptoms, Monroe New York, Newsweek, preventative hydroxychloroquine, prophylactic hydroxychloroquine, Risch, SARS-CoV-2, school closure, shedding virus, vaccine, viral shedding, Vladimir Zelenko, waning immunity, Zelenko
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On fire and ash.
The phoenix falls into fire, burns, and dies. Then rises again, reborn. The phoenix triumphs over adversity. Life gets hard, excruciatingly hard. Everything falls to shit. But the phoenix rises again. Or so we hope. Sometimes, the fire burns too hot. And then the phoenix dies and stays dead. Sometimes ash isn’t a phoenix egg.…
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On empathy and the color red.
We can care about others’ lives even if we’re not entirely certain how those lives feel.
AI, Ai poet, Americanah, animal cognition, animal consciousness, animal perception, anti-racist, bat, bat perception, bats, bee vision, Being a Beast, building empathy, Charles Foster, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, cognition, color perception, color red, color vision, dismantling racism, empathy, evolution of vision, frog vision, imagination, infrared vision, IR vision, literature, Nagel, non-human animal cognition, persona poem, persona poetry, philosophy, poet Ai, Racial oppression, racism, red, Robert Jackson Bennett, Shorefall, theory of mind, Thomas Nagel, ultraviolet vision, UV vision, vision, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, what red means, why we see color, why we see red
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On money, nursing home care, and Covid-19.
When we ask the people with the fewest resources to do the hardest work, we often see bad outcomes.
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On hubris and climate change.
I probably should’ve known this already, but climate science is REALLY hard!
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On hostage situations and jail.
Two perspectives on policing.
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On bias.
Diamonds fall from the sky on Neptune! But I was too prejudiced to believe the guys who told me.
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On grammar in Latin and English.
Based on the history of English usage, singular “they” is even more acceptable than singular “you.”
Dennis Baron, English grammar, gender, grammar, high school, history of English grammar, history of word use, Latin grammar, misinformation, nonbinary, nonbinary pronoun, nonbinary pronouns, parenting, pronoun, pronoun usage, pronoun use, pronouns, raising children, raising kids, reading aloud, reading to children, reading to kids, school, singular they, singular you, trying to use Latin grammar rules for English writing, word usage
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On noticing.
Even now, when many of us feel so powerless, we’re in control of our choices. And they matter.
animal cruelty, animal welfare, choice, death, dominance, ethical living, ethics, fences, harm reduction, mortality, nature, nature observation, parenting, plant based, rabbit, rabbit aggression, rabbit violence, raising children, talking to children about death, talking to kids about death, teaching children about death, teaching kids about death, territorial violence, territory, the ethics of eating, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, violence, walls
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On worms.
Ask a silly question, get a silly answer. But what happens if you ask again?
animal cognition, annelid, annelids, Charles Darwin, earthworm, earthworm cognition, earthworm intelligence, earthworms, Eileen Crist, mole, moles, schooling during the epidemic, schooling during the lockdown, schooling during the pandemic, schooling during the shutdown, The Inner Life of Earthworms, TikTok, trolling students, worm, worm cognition, worm experiments, worm intelligence, worm loves worm, worm thoughts, worms
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