Forensics Expert Explains How to Determine Bullet Trajectory | @WIRED
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Asteroid Collision Power Comparison
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The Peasants Rise Up Against The Bolsheviks – The Russian Civil War(s) 1920 I THE GREAT WAR 1920
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in defence economics, laws of war, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: Russian civil war, Russian revolution, World War I
Might Europe’s Covid policy be converging on – er – Sweden
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Excess mortality in Europe has fallen in recent weeks, to the point where fewer deaths are occurring across the continent than you would expect at this time of the year. This doesn’t mean that Covid deaths aren’t occurring or that the problem has disappeared. It does mean it’s in a different phase.
And you could say Europe’s governments are converging on an approach which is looking more and more like that of Sweden’s – that is governments targeting a more limited range of specific public health measures, modifying policy in light of outcomes, and relying more on an informed public to make a sensible trade off between economic (and social) activity and safety-related social distancing.
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The eclipse photo that made Einstein famous
27 Jun 2020 1 Comment
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Detective Reviews Hostage Negotiation Scenes, from ‘Captain Phillips’ to ‘Inside Man’ | @VanityFair
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The complications of assessing racism in police departments
27 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
But this counter analysis admits that detailed statistical analysis is required to decided the bias question.
In a few previous posts (e.g., here and here), prompted by claims of African-American linguist John McWhorter, I examined the various biases and difficulties that plague attempts to see if police kill black suspects at a higher rate than whites. This new article in FiveThirtyEight, though not providing an answer to the problem, shows further complications in the attempt to get answers, so that at present we have no idea if there are racial disparities in who becomes the object of police violence.
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There are three ways to compare racial disparities:
1.) Proportion of racial populations who are victims of police violence. As is well known, about 0.096% of black men and boys will be killed by the cops during their lifetime. That compares to 0.039% among whites: a 2.5-fold difference. But this doesn’t mean that blacks are more likely to…
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Soviet Gender Equality Was a Scam – WW2 – On the Homefront 004
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Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941) Tex beneke and the Glenn Miller orchestra
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Jordan Peterson: IQ debate
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in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: IQ, political correctness, regressive left
Anti-science @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfam @Greenpeace
27 Jun 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Anti-Science left, pessimism bias, philosophy of science, regressive left
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