Humiliating for the president of Stanford to do an introduction for an event that features an Epoch Times editor healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/events/pande...www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Worked on a paper today that I find super-exciting. Using a causal mediation framework with MZ twin correlations, I show that formal schooling mediates a much smaller share of the total family background effect on occupation and income than previously thought.
Concepts by Nicholas Shea: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.1145a437
I read this book just this past week. It's brilliant! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the broad question of how our everyday tech is--and is not--affecting us.
The Kindle version of Unlocked is just ÂŁ3.99 at the moment - absolute bargain if you've not got round to getting it yet! www.amazon.co.uk/Unlocked-Sci...
Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better) eBook : Etchells, Pete: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Zombie fiction is, at its core, about the fear of seeing your own body age and decay. Ghost stories are about the impossibility of grappling with the past. Vampires are about what if you got so horny you died
I did a thing! And that thing was writing an 8-week course for the Open University on Open Research đ Written to be accessible to all levels and disciplines, and free for anyone to take. www.open.edu/openlearncre...
Today's blog post "The Not-So-Silent Generation in Philosophy": The Silent Generation (born 1928-1945) continues to be disproportionately represented in citations in the Stanford Encyclopedia. Why? [1/3]
Lead can damage children's brains and has severe impacts on their emotional and cognitive abilities throughout their lives. So this is very important progress:
Very excited to release this paper today. By using a staggered roll-out of heat pumps in the UK, we find that: 1. Heat pumps reduce householdsâ total energy use by a whopping 40%, and carbon emissions by 36%, evidencing the real-world impact of their superior efficiency over gas boilers.
