I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

A map titled "Retracing Paul Revere's Route"

“You can’t find a more exciting historical story.” 250 years after Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride, we followed the 16-mile route and spoke to people who felt a sense of wonder about that April night. nyti.ms/4cPQeun

Incredible moment when Israel's occupation, Israel's apartheid, and Israel's destruction of Gaza are called out at the Oscars!

In the memorable words of Kalyug's 'Chanakya'... "Aap Chronology Samajhiye".

A one time price increase is not inflation, though.

The new government of Syria:

Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters MOSCOW—Just days after rebels seized Damascus, deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly returned to practicing ophthalmology at a Moscow LensCrafters, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Which one ...

Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters

These high provider costs are what "abundance agenda" in healthcare could tackle:

• Create more doctors, remove BA requirements, start people in med school at age 18, and create more residency slots
• Lift certificate of need rules, more hospitals
• Lower reimbursements

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We now see a sandy area of open ground, Palestinians lying, sitting, standing around. While some tents are visible in the background. The suffering of the displaced... Palestinians forced out of their shelters and homes in Beit Lahia have been sleeping on the ground and in the open for the last 2 days. #Palestine #Gaza

The suffering of the displaced...

Palestinians forced out of their shelters and homes in Beit Lahia have been sleeping on the ground and in the open for the last 2 days.

#Palestine #Gaza

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Sales of Bibles Are Booming, Fueled by First-Time Buyers and New Versions Publishers attribute a 22% jump in Bible sales this year to rising anxiety, a search for hope, or highly focused marketing and designs.

Bible sales are up 22% in the US thru end of October, vs same period last year, according to book tracker Circana BookScan. By contrast, total U.S. print book sales were up less than 1% in that period.
(No it's not Trump-brand bibles - they're not included in this tally)
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The replies are mostly a mix of (a) CVS needs to hire more staff, & (b) wages should be higher so people don't want to steal.

No-one is asking the question: how come we see this in some cities, but here in Huntsville, Ala. we can pick most things directly off the shelf and put them in our baskets?

I am starving in Gaza and I don’t believe the world can’t do anything Israel tried to starve Gaza before and the international community reacted. Why isn’t it doing anything now?

"Starvation is destroying our bodies and our minds, incapacitating us. And this is the goal... and while Israel may hope that we starve in silence, we will not. The world can and must stop the starvation of Gaza."

— #AJOpinion by Nour Elassy ⤵️

So you're saying the old belief that crossing the ocean ("Kala pani"/black water) would strip a person of their caste was correct? 🤔

Also: I can't recall any Indian politician openly expressing a desire for higher female LFP. Education, yes, LFP? No, though that might be my ignorance.

Only if you choose to not be organized. You can create a great folder structure in it. Also, versioning & document history are superb.

Big downside of Google is if the file owner leaves the organization & it wasn't in a "shared drive," it's lost forever. Use Shared Drives for everything important!

Yes. 100%.

But also, his mother used to be a nurse, & isn't homeless. His sister has challenges, but isn't homeless. There's obviously a lot we don't know, but it's their son/brother who is living like this.

Society should help. But shouldn't families, first? Something is so badly broken here.

When universities hire chief diversity officers, it has *no effect* on the diversity of faculty or university administrator hires.

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Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...

Probably the best one item summary you’ll see

Generative AI for Economic Research: LLMs Learn to Collaborate and Reason Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New NBER paper on how to use LLMs in your research: www.nber.org/papers/w33198 #econsky

If plagiarism is free, easy & undetectable,

What’s the incentive for students to understand theories or analyse evidence?

Given AI, how can we as academics motivate learning?

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If we want people to trust science or the scientific process, or fund social science research with public $, then integrity is critical.

Every fraudulent junk science paper chips away at public trust in academia a little more.

best films about economics? i have lagaan, wonka (2023), seven samurai, dune, killers of the flower moon and it's a wonderful life.

Yup, I always play the bar scene for students right after we cover Nash equilibrium and ask them to dissect what's wrong. They usually get it pretty quickly!

A group of people stand around a funera

Voicemail's funeral

Making it official changes the demographics of the country in a big way. It will require either making the apartheid official, or giving rights to a very large minority.

I would love to see data on trends in dowry. I can't find anything more recent than 2020. (so someone who knows, please point me in the right direction!) But if marriage age & female LFP are rising, & dowries are falling, that could be a reason.