Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

I read it as a student 35 years ago

It was rejected 121 times, before publication in 1974

By now, more than 5 million copies have been sold

Really looking forward to reading this one!

A true privilege to write about two new books in The New Republic:

'The Unclaimed' by Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans🥑 (@CrownPublishing)

'Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics' by neil gong (@UChicagoPress) newrepublic.com/article/178192…

does that man look familiar to you

#ProudtoBU ❤️🐾: For the fourth time in the award’s 44-year history, college hockey’s best player is a Boston University Terrier. On Friday, BU Men's Hockey's Macklin Celebrini (CAS’27) was named the 2024 Hobey Baker Award recipient.

Keep reading ➡️spr.ly/6016wv6v6

Pretty striking

They made his day

Retired military officer who led Israel's investigation into World Central Kitchen strike...

*** Is the CEO of the defense firm that makes the drone missiles used in the strike ! ***

This could never make it into a movie script --- far too on-the-nose.

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

I wrote about the 'War on Health in Gaza' in Dissent Magazine.

dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

First Gen: Act ii. amazon.com/Class-Dismisse…

I really need to learn how to make laadna. Great Thai dish perfect for a cold rainy day

Congratulations on the great run Boston University hockey!

👇 new article, 'Money as Medicine' by Eric Reinhart in the NEJM — the world's most influential medical journal — is about Universal Basic Income as essential health policy. 80-90% of health outcomes depend on economic determinants. UBI is preventive.

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Housing wealth inequality *within* generations is growing

As ever, John Burn-Murdoch leaves me wondering “why didn’t I make that chart?”

In the talk about the lucky half getting parental help remember: most get little but a few get a lot! (see Institute for Fiscal Studies chart from me & Bee Boileau)

I choose to interpret this as a critique of capitalism and consumerism.

Vaccination reduced the risk of #LongCovid by ~40% in the entire population (5.4 million) of Norway
thelancet.com/journals/lanre… and reduced cardiovascular and thrombotic events Nhung Trinh
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

A nice collection of thoughts by some of the many people who got to know Danny Kahneman over the years.

Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons behavioralscientist.org/remembering-da… via Behavioral Scientist

Just gross

Doing work at the intersection of ethics, policy, politics, and global health?

Apply for the Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethics, Global Health and Infectious Disease at Oxford and Hopkins! apply.interfolio.com/143815

A wonderful community, lots of resources, & great people.

(1/4) BREAKING: PM Srettha Thavisin led a press conference to announce Weds the 10,000 baht digital wallet handouts scheme is going ahead and can be used by the fourth quarter of 2024.
Here are the key points:
1) About 50 million people will benefit from the scheme.. #Thailand