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John Oliver on the newspaper crisis

Posted on 2016-12-10 by GaryDecember 29, 2016
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A few years ago a friend of mine, who at the time worked for a great metropolitan newspaper (let’s call her Lois), told me that the paper had installed exercise equipment in the offices for free use of the staff, … Continue reading →

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What’s going on with U.S. life expectancy?

Posted on 2016-12-09 by GaryDecember 12, 2016
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One of the stranger developments in the United States over the last couple of decades has been a rise in rates of illness and mortality for non-Hispanic white Americans, especially women, the middle-aged, and those with low levels of education. … Continue reading →

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We really ought to have paid sick leave in the U.S.

Posted on 2016-12-08 by GaryDecember 7, 2016
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Most developed countries and many places in the U.S. require paid sick leave, and it turns out to have a lot of unambiguous benefits for businesses as well as sick employees and their coworkers and customers. But somehow a lot … Continue reading →

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John Green on 2016: the good parts

Posted on 2016-12-07 by GaryDecember 7, 2016
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To put it mildly, not everything about 2016 has gone well. But as novelist and polymath John Green points out here (in a video originally posted August 16), there have been some items of pretty good news as well, many … Continue reading →

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Recipe testing

Posted on 2016-12-06 by GaryDecember 5, 2016
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I dedicate this to my friends Carolyn and Dave, who have actually done professional recipe testing, some of which sounded as scary as this: Link: https://youtu.be/uP7DxANtDc8 by … Continue reading →

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SNL’s latest Trump opening

Posted on 2016-12-06 by GaryDecember 5, 2016
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This is another one I suspect you’ve seen by now, but just in case… Link: https://youtu.be/tI3g_laToxE by … Continue reading →

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A few brief thoughts on Trump’s appointments

Posted on 2016-12-05 by GaryDecember 5, 2016
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Donald Trump has nominated retired Marine Corps general James Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense. Genral Mattis has not been out of the service the required seven years and hence cannot legally serve in that post, but I think … Continue reading →

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Our vision is weird

Posted on 2016-12-04 by GaryDecember 4, 2016
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This video does a nice job of highlighting some weird aspects of human vision in just three minutes. Link: https://youtu.be/0NPH_udOOek This first oddness it mentions is the blind spot, a place on the retina devoid of imaging cells where the … Continue reading →

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Maybe Hillary Clinton should have taken Bill Maher’s advice

Posted on 2016-12-03 by GaryDecember 3, 2016
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From a late July episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, a six-minute segment of advice to Hillary Clinton about how to present herself. (Usual caution to those sensitive to naughty language: This is Bill Maher speaking on cable.) … Continue reading →

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Misinformation voters

Posted on 2016-12-01 by GaryJanuary 5, 2017
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For a long time people have talked about the problem of low-information voters, those who typically don’t care all that much about politics, rarely watch the news, and rely on general impressions. To varying degrees this has probably been true … Continue reading →

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