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  • 4 Problems With the New Climate Change Report

    4 Problems With the New Climate Change Report0

    If you’re like me, you’re happy the White House released the latest version of the National Climate Assessment on Black Friday. Publishing the 1,700-page report the day after Thanksgiving saved me from unwanted dinner conversations about our planet’s impending climate doom. But if your aunt calls you up this week spouting claims of mass deaths,

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  • Why ‘Check Your Privilege’ is Squelching Discourse

    Why ‘Check Your Privilege’ is Squelching Discourse1

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  • The Real Reason for the Uber Gender Gap

    The Real Reason for the Uber Gender Gap0

    • November 26, 2018

    In a recent article, Cody Cook, et al. examine a detailed dataset covering more than a million Uber drivers. While the difference in earnings by gender among Uber drivers is large, “we are able to completely explain the pay gap with three main factors related to driver preferences and learning: returns to experience, a pay

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  • The Costs of Presidential Candor

    The Costs of Presidential Candor0

    • November 26, 2018

    Predictably, Donald Trump was attacked both by the establishment and the media as “crude,” “unpresidential,” and “gratuitous” for a recent series of blunt and graphic statements on a variety of current policies. Oddly, the implied charge this time around was not that Trump makes up stuff, but that he said things that were factual but

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  • Five Modern Wise Men Everyone Should Know

    Five Modern Wise Men Everyone Should Know0

    Sometimes we are tempted to think that wisdom is dead and, admittedly, it sometimes seems as if that is true. And yet, there are still many modern thinkers, some of them still alive, who are able, in the words of one philosopher, to “see things and to see them whole.” And many of them are

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  • A 1944 Warning About Genetically Edited Babies

    A 1944 Warning About Genetically Edited Babies0

    • November 26, 2018

    I saw the headline scroll across the marquee as I drove by the public radio station this morning: gene-edited babies are officially a thing.   The news comes out of China at the hands of researcher He Jiankui, who genetically edited a pair of twin girls. According to The Associated Press, Jiankui is well-meaning and

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