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Four years ago today, the @WHO declared COVID a global pandemic. We were wrong about what happened to America in 2020, and we've yet to register how much it has changed us, as individuals and as a society. 🧵
nytimes.com/2024/01/31/opini…
I don’t think anyone has ever loved sociology more than Michael Burawoy. I know that no one has ever loved their students more, or done so much to bring them together into the kind of community every scholar wants.
What a beautiful life. What a devastating loss.
Why are economists in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state? What kind of policies would we get if legislators paid attention to the other social sciences, too?
Brilliant essay from @caitlinzaloom in @nybooks nybooks.com/articles/2025/02…
1995: Chicago Heat Wave. 739 dead.
2005: Katrina. 1392 dead. $125b in damages.
2012: Sandy. 254 dead. $70b in damages.
2025: Los Angeles Wildfires. Deaths & damages TBD.
Disasters don't change climate policies.
People, politics, and movements do.
What do we do now?
Thank you, @chipublib chipublib.bibliocommons.com/…
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We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.
Some of those stories may even be true!
But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇
How Americans voted, according to Edison’s exit poll data. HT @familyunequal
Americans have a will not to know what happened here during 2020, and our collective denial of the nation’s bungled response to that year’s cascading crises is a massive political gift to Donald Trump.
It’s time for a reckoning. Four years ago the US was in a lethal free fall.
Mexico City is building out a new form of social infrastructure: Little Utopias, each one a gathering place, a playroom, a gym, a senior center, a service hub, a restaurant, a cultural haven, and a recovery space. What a brilliant idea. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab
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I wrote about the power of climate feedbacks for @NewYorker. The piece came out today, just as #Hurricane Milton became a Category 5 storm. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
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8PM EDT: This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storms small eye and intensity. 897mb pressure with 180 MPH max sustained winds and gusts 200+ MPH. This is now the 4th strongest hurricane ever recorded by pressure on this side of the world. The eye is TINY at nearly 3.8 miles wide. This hurricane is nearing the mathematical limit of what Earth's atmosphere over this ocean water can produce.
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For the first time ever recorded, October finds three hurricanes spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic. Hot new world
As the planet warms, storms like Helene will only become stronger and more frequent. They will hit places, like the mountains of North Carolina, that were never exposed to such extreme weather.
We can't afford to elect more climate change deniers.
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A short and simple proposal for saving lives as the planet warms: We need to name heat waves. It won’t even cost a dollar. @nytopinion podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Heat waves are America’s deadliest weather events, but the danger they do isn’t widely appreciated or remembered, @EricKlinenberg writes. “Fortunately, there is a low-cost and promising solution: naming major heat waves.”
Read: nyti.ms/4gizLjw
NEW POSTDOC AT @nyuniversity @nyu_ipk
Cities, Communities, and Social Infrastructure. Open to applicants with PhDs in the social sciences, humanities, public policy, and design fields. We're reviewing applications now. Please share. @ASAnews apply.interfolio.com/153600
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If you are in NYC, please join us for a discussion about social solidarity. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant @EricKlinenberg, whose book 2020 is not to be missed, and the inimitable @chrislhayes.
Sept 16 at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/solidarit…
Me listening to @nytimes The Daily podcast on the history of AC, when the reporter recalls how heat in Chicago was no big deal in the 1990s because people could just hang out in their cool brick apartment building.
Was her family at their beach house in 1995?
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Axios: New data shows violent crime dropping sharply in major U.S. cities axios.com/2024/08/12/violent…
