Did you feel unsafe there?
5 hours per week doesn't sound too bad at all :) (Or did you mean all 5 are in the same day? If so ouch then yes insane, eat lots of fun snacks!)
Ed Glaeser proposes conditioning federal highway funding on land use reform. This was my idea for building codes, which I suspect would be less controversial www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/o...
"Professors arenāt in classrooms to entice students to share their ideology; they are there to challenge students to grapple with how much more there is to learn about any issue that really matters." Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University. šļø www.nytimes.com/2024/09/02/o...
Higher education should be tolerant but never neutral.
The Economist has published a deeply-researched story about car bloat -- and it's very, very damning. "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: www.economist.com/interactive/...
Good example of subgame perfect behavior (and failure of strategic foresight š)
56% of Americans say the US economy is in recession, which it isn't, but that's a technical term, and maybe some mean "things are expensive." But 49% thinking the stock market is down when it's way up, and 49% thinking that unemployment is at a 50-year high when it's near a 50-year low, is insane.
Exclusive Harris poll for the Guardian shows 55% believe economy is shrinking, in troubling sign for presidentās re-election bid
Our new BBS paper explains how social media exploits our predisposition to attend to threatening stimuli by promoting content in algorithms that capture attention. Yet, this content is not what people expressly state they would like to see. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Very sensible and non-ideological piece on Israel-Palestine from the wise Gordon L Weil www.pressherald.com?p=7310139&uu...
āI hope this is not 1968 again.ā Observing campus unrest, an academic friend expressed his concern, but his comment went beyond the demonstrations. The Vietnam War was the focus of the turmoil of the ...