Von Neumann, who described himself to the Senate as 'violently anti-Communist and much more militaristic than the norm', responded to Oppenheimer saying Manhattan Project scientists had 'known sin' with the reply 'Sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it.'

The Americans complained the Taiwanese were too driven, worked too hard, and didn't care enough about social mores(personality score).

It's bascially the transcript of a university admissions department rejecting Asian Applicants for being too perfect and therefore boring

The Soviet Union polluted 4/5 as much as the United States while producing half as much stuff.

It was not an efficient place.

Support for redistribution involves a malicious willingness to coerce the better off (including torture!) along with an egalitarian dominance-inversion motive. As graph shows, Evolutionary Psychology is now close to a feature-complete account of support for redistribution!
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Earlier than expected, but my book Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction is now available online via open access. The print version will be available in mid-May. The book is half textbook and half treatise. routledge.com/Political-Beli…

Somehow all but one of the relevant tests returned p-values in the range the author considered relevant for significance, between p = 0.10 and 0.01.

This is the big one! Today is the first release of “Artifact Corrections for Effect Sizes”. This is a new online, open-access book that overviews the ways study artifacts can impact effect sizes. It contains R code, examples, and visuals throughout!
matthewbjane.quarto.pub/artifact-corre…

Just learned about Jeffrey P. Clemens' paper finding that the creation of Medicare and Medicaid appreciably raised medical patenting (presumably via a demand channel), and this likely had global spillovers

owenzidar.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the…

'Rent control reduces rents in rent controlled units' isn't a particularly surprising or novel finding.

What's more interesting is what effects it has on other outcomes like construction, housing quality & spatial efficiency.

Congress has passed the bill requiring TikTok owner ByteDance to sell off their American assets.

The communists just lost access to the data of millions of Americans.

Should noncompete contracts be banned?

18-29 year olds rank climate change 12th among 16 prominent areas of concern according to new Harvard Youth Poll.

iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47t…

“New noncompetes banned for all workers as of effective date.”

The FTC just issued a complete ban on all employee non-competes. No carveouts, no limitations, no exceptions.

Wow!