@EcoGeck

Pedestrianize Clark Street. Lefty urbanism out of the American Midwest.

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In today's video, we're taking a break from urban planning for the inaugural episode of Eco's Journal Club: in-depth analyses of cutting-edge academic literature on a specific, narrow question. Today's topic: are Americans getting richer or poorer? youtu.be/-Nc_THkV9DM
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I've been reading a big pile of books to get informed for a video on the causes of the housing crisis. In that time, I've learned that social science books that rely on statistical or microeconomic (and especially behavioral) models for evidence are pretty uniformly bad.
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Here's some books in the latter category which I've found especially engaging. They're only peripherally related to housing costs, but I've learned that the crisis is really just downhill from much larger socio-economic trends (I highly recommend them all, obviously).
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(And yes, the video is slowly coming, I've had to read half a dozen books and 30+ academic articles to get to the point where I feel confident enough to understand the full picture)
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My grandmother is 93 and unable to drive, and yet she is still able to live almost completely independently because there's a stop a few minutes' walk from her house that'll take her anywhere in Warsaw in an accessible, low-floor tram.
Megan McArdle
@asymmetricinfo5 Oct 2023
The old people who disproprortionately go to the theater would like a word.
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Past a certain age, you just can't drive anymore--your vision, or reflexes, or motor skills just can't do it anymore. For many people that means becoming a prisoner in your society past a certain age. And that's bad!
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Didn’t Penn demote Karikó, cut her salary and tried to fire her ? Self-adulation over a Nobel prize but no recognition of the way they treated the ‘historic research team’ when it didn’t seem profitable enough. Turning Universities into businesses was a mistake
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@Penn2 Oct 2023
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 @NobelPrize in Medicine bit.ly/48BswPR #nobelprize

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 Nobel Prize...

The highest honor was bestowed for foundational discoveries that gave the world a vaccine to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Penn’s wording and claim to credit is misleading. Karikó was demoted by Penn in 1995. She left Penn for BioNTech in 2013 after Penn refused to reinstate her to tenure track following the publications that would lead to the Nobel Prize, deeming her “not of faculty quality”. wired.co.uk/article/mrna-c…
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The thing with research is you never know where a breakthrough might come from--there's no good way to assess how promising a given line of research. Unfortunately most contemporary universities have tried anyways, incidents like this as the result (1/10) fortune.com/2023/10/02/katal…

The scientist whose research was key to developing the COVID vaccines was demoted, had her salary...

Her work was undermined for years.

fortune.com
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Instead we just get floods of studies like those allegedly recently falsified by a Harvard psychology professor, asking important questions like "does lying make you more creative" or "does arguing against your beliefs make you desire cleaning products". (9/10)
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At this point, most social sciences are completely deserving of their crumbling public respectability. I just hope we can resurrect Alan Kay's vision of research before the whole system loses all credibility. (10/10)
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"How [noun] [verb]ed the [noun]" is an immediate indicator of a junk article for me. Shame to see it on every other piece these days. And why is so much journalism degrading into simply describing the trending section of the author's favorite social media platform, anyways?
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Friday fog. Amsterdam Central Station several days ago.
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Friday fog, part two. Morning at the train station.
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