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@ny1 intersection at 31st Ave + Newtown … it was a scary mess before the redesign. Yeah, they need to redo it a bit. But they’re trying to address an awful intersection … when my kids were small, it terrified me (our old pediatrician was just down the street).
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Must
“If people take my book on Vermeer seriously, it means that every caption by every painting on every website of every museum will have to be completely different.”
In Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, Andrew Graham-Dixon unearths new evidence that Vermeer was a pioneer in the early Enlightenment, a member of a little-known liberal sect that preached tolerance and pacifism in a world wracked by war. At a time where half of Germany’s population had been massacred, Vermeer’s depiction of a woman sitting serenely in a sunlit room is thus radically misunderstood.
Watch the full conversation with @tylercowen and @AndrewGrahamDix here, or search for Conversations with Tyler wherever you get your podcasts.
youtu.be/PKgD52syF3E?si=yfkd…
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“Yes, screens are a villain. But so are the adults who monetized every inch of youth sports and then wondered why participation dropped.”
My son plays club soccer. We spent more on tournament fees last year than on our family vacation. That’s not a phone problem. Price out the middle class long enough, they find something else to do.
My son got to meet @landondonovan this year. Grew up playing pickup soccer at the park. No fees. No travel. No matching kit. Just showed up and played with his buddies.
That world is mostly gone. Yes, screens are a villain. But so are the adults who monetized every inch of youth sports and then wondered why participation dropped.
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Very good chart about renewables.
En 2025, les énergies bas carbone ont absorbé l'intégralité de la hausse de la demande électrique dans le monde. Les énergies renouvelables ne se sont plus ajoutées aux énergies fossiles comme avant : elles les ont fait reculer. C'est un fait absolument majeur pour la transition.
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Best summary of RFK jr undermining measles vaccination since 2025
1/n Let’s recount his public statements made in 2025 when he was HHS Scty during our awful measles epidemic in Texas and how he undermined public confidence in public health, as 99 kids/adults hospitalized and 2 kids needlessly died. I had a front row seat. Are you ready? Let’s go:
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Follow up … interesting
It's not just phonics: Schools have failed to teach reading because they ignore 50+ years of findings in cognitive psychology that reading depends on general knowledge. ED Hirsch has been banging this drum for a long time but Ed Schools shut their ears because the whole idea was unromantic & had a vaguely right-wing aroma. Now he joins with Dan Willingham to make a strong case that kids can't read if they don't have the background knowledge that makes sense of the rarer vocabulary, allusions, and understandings that allow us to read between the lines - which all reading requires. educationnext.org/rediscover…
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