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On inflation, inequality, and hungry ghosts.
Inflation might gobble fortunes, all because power people don’t think that workers should be paid more.
Brad DeLong, capitalism, cartel behavior, consumer spending, consumerism, corporate profits, cost of living, currency, economic policy, economics, economies, ending inflation, explanation of inflation, Ezra Klein, food prices, Food Prices Soar, fuel costs, gold standard, inequality, inflation, interest rates, J. Bradford DeLong, monetary policy, monopoly power, pandemic response, rising prices, salaries, salary increases, shipping costs, United States inflation, wage increases, wages, what causes inflation
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On maternal bonds and cruelty.
We’ve all benefited from cruel research — so what do we do now?
animal activism, animal research, animal welfare, autism, baby monkeys, biomedical ethics, childhood, ethics, Harry Harlow, Harvard, John Gluck, Livingstone, macaque, Margaret Livingstone, maternal bond, medical ethics, monkey, monkeys, parenting, parenting advice, primate research, primates, research animals, research ethics, research macaques, research monkeys, rhesus macaque, rhesus monkey, science, scientific ethics, scientific research, separation at birth, trauma, Triggers for Mother Love, vegan, veganism, Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals
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On unrequited love.
All those years of unrequited love prepared me for a newborn.
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On the apparent rarity of human-like intelligence.
When we look around, we see such a small sliver of our planet’s total life.
ancient world, animal cognition, animal intelligence, archaeological evidence, archaeology, bird brains, birds, brain, brain construction, cognition, deep time, dinosaur, evolution, evolution of intelligence, evolutionary time, fossil evidence, fossils, human extinction, intelligence, lifespan of the sun, neuron counts, neuron numbers, non-human animal cognition, Oded Galor, rocks, stone age, stone tools, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, t-rex, The Journey of Humanity, The Origins of Wealth and Inequality, time as a twenty-four hour day, Tyrannosaurus rex
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On brevity and conspiratorial-sounding language.
Many ideas, when phrased too briefly, sound an awful lot like conspiracy theories.
conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, email, Facebook, filter bubble, Gabriel Zucman, Gmail, Google, Hidden Wealth of Nations, miscommunication, privacy, privacy laws, Proton mail, santa claus, Shoshana Zuboff, social media, sunscreen, Surveillance Capitalism, Swiss privacy laws, tax evasion, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, vegan, veganism, Zucman
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On scientific beliefs, Indigenous knowledge, and paternity.
Partible paternity — a child having 3+ genetic contributors — can be real both biologically and culturally.
American Biology Teacher, Bari, biological parent, biology, cell migration, cultural beliefs, culture, David Linden, dizygotic pregnancy, family, father, fatherhood, fertilization, First People, Gabriel Andrade, genetic, genetic contributor, genetic inheritance, genetics, heteropaternal superfecundication, How Indigenous Ways of Knowing Works in Venezuela, human, human evolution, human migration, human reproduction, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, insemination, Jennifer Raff, Lisa Jean Moore, migration, multiple paternity, Origin, Our Transgenic Future, parenthood, parenting, partible paternity, paternity, peopleing of the Americas, pregnancy, reproduction, review, science, scientific knowledge, scientific understanding, semen, traditional belief, twin, twins, Unique, Venezuela
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On Long Covid, minds, and bodies.
Common prejudices might make us overlook treatments for Long Covid.
Akiko Iwasaki, chronic fatigue, Covid stress, covid therapies, Covid trauma, Covid-19, disrupted sleep, experimental therapies for Long Covid, foggy thoughts, Long Covid, Long Covid therapies, Long Covid treatment, low cortisol, medicine, Pandemic, post traumatic stress, Prazosin, PTSD, PTSD treatment, stress, trauma
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On AI-generated art.
Can we imagine a world where human artists still get to do their work, and eat?
AI, AI art, AI art generators, AI training, AI-generated art, algorithm, algorithmic art, algorithms, art, art competition, art generator, art generators, artificial intelligence, artwork, brain, capital versus labor, capitalism, collaboration, creativity, digital brain, digital tools, digital versus biological, economics, equity, fairness, inspiration, justice, Midjourney, neural network, paintings, robots, training sets, Wombo
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On perspective and heroes.
Medusa is a hero; Medusa is an obstacle — as our perspective shifts, so do the stories.
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On urgency and gender-affirming medical care.
Sometimes, young people are right to be infuriated by our lack of urgency.
access to medical care, age discrimination, Emily Bazelon, estrogen, gatekeepers, gatekeeping, gender, gender transition, gender-affirming medical care, hormone blockers, hormone therapy, LGBTIA+, medical care, medical transition, medicine, nonbinary, patience, psychology, puberty, puberty blockers, queer youth, restricting medical care, testosterone, The Battle Over Gender Therapy, transgender, transition, transitioning, urgency
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