Blacks, Trump, and Media Bias

Dan Mitchell's avatarInternational Liberty

I rarely write about media bias, but I sometimes come across stories that cry out for correction because of blatant inaccuracies.

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How Whales Got To Be Whales

Scott Buchanan's avatarEconomist Writing Every Day

Although they live in the ocean like fish, whales are clearly mammals. A reasonably complete series of intermediate fossils have been found for the evolution of whales from terrestrial mammals. A sampling of these transitional species is shown below:

Source: The evolution of whales , https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03

Modern whales have no external hind limbs, and have their nostrils or blowholes on top of their heads. Pakicetus (shown in the figure) lived around 52 million years ago. Although it probably spent considerable time submerged in rivers hunting its prey, it was fully terrestrial. It had long, slender legs, and nostrils at the tip of its snout, like most mammals. Dorudon appeared about 12 million years later, and is maybe halfway to modern whales, being fully aquatic, with tiny vestigial hind limbs and nostrils halfway back on its snout. Whales largely similar to modern species appear after another 12 million years or so…

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Laid-off Keystone XL worker shares heartbreaking message for Biden

gjihad's avatarGreen Jihad

Some unions supported Donald Trump, such as the Pipeliners Local Union 798. Neal Crabtree, a Welding Foreman from Arkansas and a Pipeliners Local Union 798 member, was laid off after President Joe Biden signed an executive order during his first day in office halting construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline citing a climate crisis and not caring one bit about the crisis of people needing to work after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.

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why Oranga Tamariki removes babies

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Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents’ | James Flynn

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

Quinto Congreso Internacional FIAP Asofondos Edward Prescott

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YLL or VSL? Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Year of COVID

Jeremy Horpedahl's avatarEconomist Writing Every Day

How do we conduct cost-benefit analysis when different policies might harm some in order to help others? This question has become increasingly important in the Year of COVID.

In particular, it is possible that some interventions to prevent the spread of COVID may save the lives of the vulnerable elderly, but have the unfortunate effect of causing other harms and potentially deaths. For example, increased social isolation could lead to increased suicides among the young (we don’t quite have good data on this yet, but it’s at least a possibility).

If you don’t think any public policies will reduce COVID deaths, then the post isn’t for you. It’s all cost, no benefit!

But for those that do recognize the trade-offs, a common way to do the cost-benefit analysis is to look at “years of life lost” or YLL. This is a common approach on Twitter and blogs, but I’ve seen…

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