I wonder how that computer study would hold up 7 years later. I can't dispute the findings, mind you, but from the high school perspective it feels like student tech skills have been regressing as smartphones become more ubiquitous and, in low-SES neighborhoods like mine, the only internet device in the home besides video game consoles. Half my students text on their phones faster than they type, and many have admitted that they never use keyboards outside of school and don't really know how to use a desktop OS. I blew a student's mind yesterday by showing her the tab key and the copy+paste keyboard shortcuts.
Assuming desktops and laptops are less distracting and better-suited to reading, writing, and research than phones (which most people probably assume, myself included) I wonder how well those computer results would replicate today in a more phone-mediated world.
Huge drop in quality of opponents for both favorites from last week. I bet with my brother all season (we avoid the vig!). I'm ahead so far so he picks first. I like Rams-3.5. If bengals line stays at 7.5, that's a difficult choice.
Other recommendations in the vein of EoAM: The Body, A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson. Really good for a cohesive overview. And Immune, recently published, by Philip Dettmer, the guy who runs the popsci YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.
I read "Emperor of All Maladies" right after I had had a cancer tumor resected 12 years ago and wanted to understand what cancer is. (I finally ended up putting myself through a Great Courses biology course taught by a biology professor at Duke.....that was the foundation and I kept going into genetics and protein folding, etc etc)
I can't recommend "Emperor...." enough. I remember that brilliant part of the book where he takes you step by step through a person's cancer case and zooms in down to the level of proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes and what they do and don't do.......
Thanks for recommending Tana Ganeva's substack a while back. It's really good reading. In her latest post she goes over some of the many ways the NYT is a shitrag, too!
"no generation will come to save us" -- is true, yet also a bit misleading. We are so rich, even spoiled, that we already don't need "saving".
We Americans, who have the American privilege of freedom of action. Adult freedom.
But so many of the rich, as so many rich throughout history, also want freedom from responsibility. Responsibility for their own mistakes - and holding others responsible for the mistakes those others make.
Life has been, is, and will always remain unfair. No generation can save us from that reality. We also can't change "human nature" - but we can maybe change political incentives so fewer choose to be bad, and more choose to be good.
Tho we don't all agree on what's good or bad in many cases.
I wonder how that computer study would hold up 7 years later. I can't dispute the findings, mind you, but from the high school perspective it feels like student tech skills have been regressing as smartphones become more ubiquitous and, in low-SES neighborhoods like mine, the only internet device in the home besides video game consoles. Half my students text on their phones faster than they type, and many have admitted that they never use keyboards outside of school and don't really know how to use a desktop OS. I blew a student's mind yesterday by showing her the tab key and the copy+paste keyboard shortcuts.
Assuming desktops and laptops are less distracting and better-suited to reading, writing, and research than phones (which most people probably assume, myself included) I wonder how well those computer results would replicate today in a more phone-mediated world.
Huge drop in quality of opponents for both favorites from last week. I bet with my brother all season (we avoid the vig!). I'm ahead so far so he picks first. I like Rams-3.5. If bengals line stays at 7.5, that's a difficult choice.
Love the Santy Anno. You might also enjoy the French and English version the Longest Johns did with SKALD https://youtu.be/oWx7O9bUnMg
Other recommendations in the vein of EoAM: The Body, A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson. Really good for a cohesive overview. And Immune, recently published, by Philip Dettmer, the guy who runs the popsci YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.
I read "Emperor of All Maladies" right after I had had a cancer tumor resected 12 years ago and wanted to understand what cancer is. (I finally ended up putting myself through a Great Courses biology course taught by a biology professor at Duke.....that was the foundation and I kept going into genetics and protein folding, etc etc)
I can't recommend "Emperor...." enough. I remember that brilliant part of the book where he takes you step by step through a person's cancer case and zooms in down to the level of proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes and what they do and don't do.......
Thanks for recommending Tana Ganeva's substack a while back. It's really good reading. In her latest post she goes over some of the many ways the NYT is a shitrag, too!
"no generation will come to save us" -- is true, yet also a bit misleading. We are so rich, even spoiled, that we already don't need "saving".
We Americans, who have the American privilege of freedom of action. Adult freedom.
But so many of the rich, as so many rich throughout history, also want freedom from responsibility. Responsibility for their own mistakes - and holding others responsible for the mistakes those others make.
Life has been, is, and will always remain unfair. No generation can save us from that reality. We also can't change "human nature" - but we can maybe change political incentives so fewer choose to be bad, and more choose to be good.
Tho we don't all agree on what's good or bad in many cases.