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    <title>Opinion | Herman Cain and Stephen Moore follow Trump’s lazy conspiracy theorizing</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-10T02:26:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/herman-cain-and-stephen-moore-follow-trumps-lazy-conspiracy-theorizing/2019/04/08/63a64ffc-5a3c-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No: What Moore, Cain and Trump espouse is merely lazy conspiracy theorizing.

Moore has actually taken things a step further, calling for the elimination of the entire Commerce and Labor departments, and other departments that he claims “don’t do much that’s useful.” As Moore surely knows, this would mean eliminating the independently run statistical agencies — including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis — that collect and tabulate nearly all major economic data releases.

This is a strange position for anyone who calls himself an economist, let alone someone in contention for a seat on the Fed board, to adopt. The Fed relies on such government data to evaluate how the economy is performing and calibrate monetary policy — as do investors, businesses and families when making critical decisions every day.

There’s an old economics joke about “torturing the data until it confesses.” What happens if you just execute the data instead?]]></description>
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    <title>Cheap Renewables Shave $10 Trillion Off Cost to Curb Warming</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-10T02:12:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The cost of reaching global climate goals is falling rapidly as wind and solar prices plummet and policy makers push electrification as the main tool to cut pollution, the International Renewable Energy Agency said.

The group known as Irena revised down its estimates for global investments needed by 2050 in clean energy to meet targets under the Paris Agreement on climate change. The Abu Dhabi-based group now says $115 trillion is needed, down from $125 trillion a year ago, reflecting lower costs to build wind and solar farms.]]></description>
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    <title>Tax refunds so far this year are down by $6 billion from 2018</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-10T02:00:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Individual tax refunds this year have been only slightly smaller than last year, but those shortfalls are adding up. At the end of last month, the amount of money the government refunded was $6 billion below this time last year, according to IRS figures.

As of March 29, the Treasury had issued 71.8 million refunds. This time a year ago it had issued 73.4 million. So while the average refund, at $2,873, is only $20 less than it was last year, about 1.6 million fewer people are getting refunds, the IRS said. ]]></description>
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    <title>Analysis | There is no such thing as a city that has run out of room</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T02:49:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And so, from an economist's point of view, there is no such thing as a full place. Especially not in America, where our neighborhoods, as urban planning professor Sonia Hirt puts it, are "astonishingly low density" compared to the rest of the industrialized world. Maybe your particular geology can't handle the foundation of a mile-high skyscraper. But, for the most part, we can always make choices to make more room, to build taller and denser, to upgrade schools and rethink roads to let more people in.

That we don't isn't a limitation of physics. It's a matter of politics disguised as physics.

"When people say a place is 'full,' to me it’s shorthand for they’re not willing to even entertain the challenges of what it would mean to redevelop the space," says George McCarthy, the president of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

"One of the things about being 'full' — or saying you’re 'full' — is the conclusion that the quality of life in the place will never be better than it is right now," he goes on. "That’s what people are really saying. They’re saying 'any change you make is going to require a sacrifice of one sort or another that we’re not willing to make.'"

By this logic, the latest person to move to San Francisco, or Portland, or even Detroit is always, miraculously, the last one to squeeze in before the gates must slam shut.

Says McCarthy: “This is the American mantra: I’m here, all development can stop.”]]></description>
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    <title>She lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places and never knew it</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T23:14:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>A Mathematician Just Solved a Deceptively Simple Puzzle That Has Boggled Minds for 64 Years</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T23:17:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mathematicians have been trying to find as many valid values for k since the 1950s and have discovered that a few numbers will never work. Any number with a remainder of 4 or 5 when divided by 9, for example, cannot have a Diophantine solution. That rules out 22 numbers below 100. Of the 78 remaining numbers that should have solutions, two have stumped researchers for years: 33 and 42.

Andrew Booker, a mathematics professor at the University of Bristol, recently knocked one of those stubborn numbers off the list.

Booker created a computer algorithm to look for solutions to x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = k, using values up to 10^16th power (that's every number up to 99 quadrillion). Booker was looking for new solutions to all the valid numbers below 100. He didn't expect to find the first-ever solution for 33 — but, within several weeks of computing, an answer turned up. That answer is:

(8,866,128,975,287,528)^3 + (–8,778,405,442,862,239)^3 + (–2,736,111,468,807,040)^3 = 33.]]></description>
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    <title>Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, report says</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T21:01:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Canada is warming on average at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world, a new scientific report indicates.

The federal government climate report also warns that changes are already evident in many parts of the country and are projected to intensify.

Canada's Arctic has seen the deepest impact and will continue to warm at more than double the global rate.

The report suggests that many of the effects already seen are probably irreversible.

Canada's annual average temperature has increased by an estimated 1.7C (3F) since 1948, when nationwide temperatures were first recorded.

The largest temperature increases have been seen in the North, the Prairies, and in northern British Columbia.

Annual average temperature in northern Canada increased by approximately 2.3C. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/has-the-next-bubble-arrived/2019/03/27/0377f112-509b-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html">
    <title>Opinion | Has the next bubble arrived?</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T02:49:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/has-the-next-bubble-arrived/2019/03/27/0377f112-509b-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are still some economists who fear another crash. The latest is Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute, a liberal think tank in Washington. In a new article, he warns that the economy may be on the edge of a giant “wealth bubble” that will collapse with possibly dire consequences.

Steuerle is especially worried by parallels between Americans’ present wealth — stocks, homes and private businesses — and the overvaluations of 2000 (the “tech bubble”) and of 2007 (the “housing bubble”). Suffering was widespread. In the 2007-2009 Great Recession, monthly unemployment peaked at 10 percent.

To test his theory, Steuerle compared U.S. household net worth (what people own minus all they owe) to the economy’s annual output, gross domestic product (GDP). Since 1950, the ratio has mostly remained 4-to-1 or less. Americans’ assets, from homes to stocks, grew roughly in tandem with the overall economy.

But there were two glaring exceptions. In early 2000, the ratio jumped to 4.5-to-1, and at the beginning of 2007, it rose to 4.9-to-1. There are two possible explanations for these leaps: Americans had become permanently richer — their accumulated wealth was rising faster than their annual incomes (GDP); or for some reason, the value of their assets had temporarily increased.

With hindsight, we know that the second answer is correct, because in each case, the economy soon entered a recession that reduced the ratios. What worries Steuerle is that the same pattern is now unfolding. Toward the end of 2018, the ratio hit an all-time high of 5.3-to-1.

The implication is that asset prices — particularly for stocks and real estate — are artificially high and that, when the bubble inevitably pops, a serious recession will occur, Steuerle writes in the journal Business Economics. People will feel poorer; joblessness will rise; confidence will slacken; business investment will weaken.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics research</dc:subject>
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    <title>Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T01:17:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://boingboing.net/2019/03/31/mote-in-cars-eye.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware, including remote control over the steering, and an adversarial example attack on the autopilot that confuses the car into driving into the oncoming traffic lane.

The researchers used an attack chain that they disclosed to Tesla, and which Tesla now claims has been eliminated with recent patches.

To effect the remote steering attack, the researchers had to bypass several redundant layers of protection, but having done this, they were able to write an app that would let them connect a video-game controller to a mobile device and then steer a target vehicle, overriding the actual steering wheel in the car as well as the autopilot systems. This attack has some limitations: while a car in Park or traveling at high speed on Cruise Control can be taken over completely, a car that has recently shifted from R to D can only be remote controlled at speeds up to 8km/h.

Tesla vehicles use a variety of neural networks for autopilot and other functions (such as detecting rain on the windscreen and switching on the wipers); the researchers were able to use adversarial examples (small, mostly human-imperceptible changes that cause machine learning systems to make gross, out-of-proportion errors) to attack these.

Most dramatically, the researchers attacked the autopilot's lane-detection systems. By adding noise to lane-markings, they were able to fool the autopilot into losing the lanes altogether, however, the patches they had to apply to the lane-markings would not be hard for humans to spot.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Tesla software security hardware research technology</dc:subject>
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    <title>People Kill People. But the Bullets Seem to Matter.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T22:45:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/27/upshot/deadly-bullets-guns.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[

In Boston from 2010 to 2015, there were 221 gun homicides.

Research suggests that one change could have lowered that number by 40 percent: smaller bullets.

A study last year, published in JAMA Network Open, examined the type of weapon used in every fatal and nonfatal shooting in the city. It found that — regardless of the time of day, the number of wounds or the circumstances of the crime — the size of the bullet affected which gunshot victims lived and which ones died.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>weapons guncontrol research science</dc:subject>
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    <title>Plastic Bags, or Paper? Here’s What to Consider When You Hit the Grocery Store</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T04:10:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/climate/plastic-paper-shopping-bags.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The decision by New York State to ban single-use plastic bags from retail stores makes it a good time to revisit everyone’s favorite environmental quandary: paper or plastic?

Unfortunately, there’s not a simple answer on whether paper or plastic bags are better for the environment. They both have downsides, but there are a few broad lessons to keep in mind when you’re hitting the grocery store.

Plastic bags, which often take centuries to decompose, can create a dreadful waste problem even though they’re far from the largest source of plastic waste in America — about 12 percent of the total.

On the other hand, paper bags typically require more energy and greenhouse gas emissions to produce, which isn’t great from a global warming standpoint.

Reusable bags can be a decent compromise, provided you hold onto them and use them often. Ultimately, though, what you put inside the bag, particularly your food choices, will most likely matter a lot more for the environment than what type of bag you use.]]></description>
<dc:subject>environment research plastic climatechange</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://bgr.com/2019/03/28/spinning-asteroid-debris-6478-gault/">
    <title>NASA’s Hubble spotted an asteroid spinning so fast it’s self-destructing</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T00:48:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bgr.com/2019/03/28/spinning-asteroid-debris-6478-gault/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As NASA explains in a new blog post, the asteroid is a relatively large asteroid measuring roughly 2.5 miles across. It’s far from Earth, sitting some 214 million miles from the Sun, and it’s gradually coming apart as it spins. The asteroid completes a full rotation approximately every two hours, which is fast enough to cause it to fling its own material off into space.

It’s definitely a cool sight, but the fact that the asteroid is slowly eroding is actually a boon for scientists who study such space rocks. As it sheds its material, researchers can study the trails it leaves behind to learn more about the makeup of the rock itself.

“We didn’t have to go to Gault,” Olivier Hainaut of the European Southern Observatory in Germany said in a statement. “We just had to look at the image of the streamers, and we can see all of the dust grains well-sorted by size. All the large grains (about the size of sand particles) are close to the object and the smallest grains (about the size of flour grains) are the farthest away because they are being pushed fastest by pressure from sunlight.”

As for why the rock is spinning, scientists think they have a pretty good idea. It’s a phenomenon known as the YORP effect, and it’s all thanks to the Sun. When sunlight strikes the asteroid and heats its surface it radiates some of that energy back into space, causing the asteroid to turn slightly. As the rock turns, the Sun’s rays continue to heat it Sun-facing side, giving it more rotational momentum and eventually resulting in a rapidly spinning asteroid.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nasa space science research astronomy</dc:subject>
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    <title>Programmers Who Don't Understand Security Are Poor at Security - Schneier on Security</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-28T04:19:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/programmers_who.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A university study confirmed the obvious: if you pay a random bunch of freelance programmers a small amount of money to write security software, they're not going to do a very good job at it.]]></description>
<dc:subject>security research programming software softwareengineering</dc:subject>
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    <title>Let Me Tell You How It Will Be ’Cause I’m the Taxman</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-24T20:06:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-06/higher-taxes-will-doom-the-stock-market-jswqiqju</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This extraordinary chart from Saravelos could perhaps be of use to progressive Democrats. In terms of post-tax income, the 34 years to 1980 (when Ronald Reagan and the low-tax agenda arrived) saw virtually everybody in the U.S. double their income, apart from the very wealthy. The years since have seen almost half the population fail to register any growth in their income at all, while the very wealthiest have enjoyed extraordinary growth. 

This generosity to the rich has, obviously, not helped those who are poorer very much. And it is hard to claim that it has aided economic growth. Most intriguingly, the Saravelos report shows that huge variations in top marginal rates have had a minimal impact on the actual burden of taxation as a whole. Tax as a proportion of gross domestic product was broadly unchanged before and after Reagan and (at a considerably higher level) in the U.K. before and after Margaret Thatcher:]]></description>
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    <title>Nearly all Americans fail to eat enough of this actual superfood</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-21T02:44:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/20/18214505/fiber-diet-weight-loss</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When we fret about the deterioration of the American diet, we tend to focus on the excessive amounts of sugar, salt, and calories we’re now eating.

What we don’t talk about: an important ingredient that’s gone missing as we’ve been filling our plates with more chicken and cheese.

Fiber. Only 5 percent of people in the US meet the Institute of Medicine’s recommended daily target of 25 grams for women and 38 grams for men. That amounts to a population-wide deficiency — what nutritionists call the “fiber gap.”

“People are so busy avoiding carbs, they forget that these foods give [them] important dietary components,” said nutritionist Julie Jones, of St. Catherine University.

Fiber is the closest thing we have to a true superfood — or super-nutrient since it’s a part of so many different foods. Eating a fiber-rich diet is associated with better gastrointestinal health and a reduced risk of heart attacks, strokes, high cholesterol, obesity, type 2 diabetes, even some cancers. That’s because fiber is amazingly helpful in many ways: It slows the absorption of glucose — which evens out our blood sugar levels — and also lowers cholesterol and inflammation.

These benefits grow the more fiber people eat. In a recent Lancet review of 185 studies and 58 clinical trials, researchers found that if 1,000 people transitioned from a low-fiber diet (under 15 grams per day) to a high-fiber diet (25 to 29 grams per day), they’d prevent 13 deaths and six cases of heart disease.

If fiber were a drug, we’d be all over it. But the average American gets just 16 grams per day — half of what we should be eating.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/opinion/alan-krueger-dies.html">
    <title>Opinion | Mourning the Loss of Alan Krueger</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-20T05:24:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/opinion/alan-krueger-dies.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alan’s most influential, paradigm-shifting work was his 1992 study with David Card on the effects of minimum-wage increases.

Before Card and Krueger, most economists just assumed that raising the minimum wage leads to lower employment. But Card and Krueger realized that this was a proposition you can test. Their initial study compared employment in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after New Jersey raised its minimum wage. And they found no adverse effect on employment — if anything, a small rise in New Jersey relative to its neighbor.

This study opened a new frontier in economic research. Economics is always bedeviled by the lack of controlled experiments; there are so many things going on in the economy that it’s hard to tell what’s causing what. But unilateral state wage hikes amount to natural experiments that tell you far more than standard economic methods.

Furthermore, this was a method that could be replicated many times, and has been over the years, right up to the recent round of minimum wage increases in a number of cities. And the preponderance of the results have confirmed Card and Krueger’s initial finding: raising minimum wages has far less negative impact on jobs than standard economics would have predicted.

This has implications that go far beyond minimum wages themselves. What Card, Krueger and the research that follows tell us is that labor markets are a lot more complicated than we thought, that market power matters a lot and that there may be much more room for public policy to raise wages in general than Econ 101 would have it.

This paper alone would secure Alan Krueger’s reputation as one of the greatest labor economists ever. But he did far more, on everything from growth and the environment to the effects of computers on wages — and he was a public servant too. He will be sorely missed.]]></description>
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    <title>Politician Who Fought Against Mandatory Chickenpox Vaccine Contracts Chickenpox | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-20T03:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/19/politician-who-fought-against-mandatory-chickenpox-vaccine-contracts-chickenpox/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An Italian politician who has railed against mandatory vaccinations, including the one for chickenpox, had to spend four days in the hospital after contracting chickenpox.

So, yes. There might be a God after all.]]></description>
<dc:subject>vaccine health healthcare research science</dc:subject>
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    <title>ADL Report: Right-Wingers Committed Every 2018 Extremist Murder In US</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-15T22:45:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/anti-defamation-league-report-right-wing-extremists-2018-murders</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Anti-Defamation League’s annual report on extremist killings in the United States, released Wednesday, found that individuals linked to right-wing extremist movements committed every single extremist-related murder in the country in 2018.

Right-wing extremists killed 50 people last year, mostly with firearms, making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995, according to the ADL’s data.

The report focuses on incidents like the February mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, committed by a teenager who expressed sympathy towards white supremacist ideology; the massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue by an avowed anti-Semite; and the shooting spree at a Tallahassee yoga studio by a man bent on committing violence against women.

Guns were responsible for 42 of the 50 deaths documented by the ADL.

“The white supremacist attack in Pittsburgh should serve as a wake-up call to everyone about the deadly consequences of hateful rhetoric,” ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said in a statement accompanying the report’s release. “It’s time for our nation’s leaders to appropriately recognize the severity of the threat and to devote the necessary resources to address the scourge of right-wing extremism.”

The ADL only includes in its count incidents in which there is “positive evidence connecting the murderer to an extremist group or movement,” rather than just a killing committed by someone who has expressed racist, anti-Semitic, or other hateful comments. They are categorized by their “primary” ideology, meaning the one they seem most driven by, most recently followed, or that clearly drove the murder they carried out.

The ADL said they are now tracking murders committed by followers of the involuntary celibate or “incel” movement. While not all “incels” are violent, men like the Tallahassee yoga studio shooter openly express their desire to hurt and kill women who they feel have deprived them of sex or loving relationships.]]></description>
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    <title>Anti-Vax Parents Lose Bid to Send Kids to School Amid Measles Outbreak | David Gee | Friendly Atheist | Patheos</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-13T23:21:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/13/anti-vax-parents-lose-bid-to-send-kids-to-school-amid-measles-outbreak/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
Anti-Vax Parents Lose Bid to Send Kids to School Amid Measles Outbreak
By David Gee
March 13, 2019

A judge in New York has ruled against anti-vaxxer parents who want to send their unvaccinated kids to school during a measles outbreak.

More than 40 unvaccinated students were banned from the private Green Meadow Waldorf School in Rockland County, where local residents are currently experiencing a measles outbreak. Several parents attempted to overturn the ban in court, but the judge ruled with the county health commissioner (and with public safety).]]></description>
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    <title>The stunning danger of smoking while pregnant</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-13T02:43:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260001/smoking-pregnant-sids-suid</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While many people know that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the US, it’s less appreciated that some of those deaths are newborn babies.

Researchers don’t fully understand why cigarettes increase the risk of infant death, but they think it has something to do with nicotine’s effect on brain regions that interfere with a baby’s sleeping and breathing patterns. Smoking is also known to restrict the blood flow that carries vital oxygen and nutrients between mom and baby.

When smoking kills, it can happen quickly. Roughly 3,600 babies in the US die suddenly every year for unknown reasons. The blanket term for these unexplained deaths is SUID, or sudden unexpected infant deaths, of which SIDS is the most well-known type.

In a new study in Pediatrics, researchers estimated that if expectant moms would just quit smoking, we could prevent 800 of those deaths.

For the paper, a collaboration between Microsoft and the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, researchers analyzed national vital statistics data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 20 million US births and more than 19,000 cases of sudden infant death that occurred between 2007 and 2011. ]]></description>
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    <title>Trump budget seeks cuts in science funding</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-12T03:31:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/03/11/trump-budget-seeks-cuts-science-funding/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump’s third budget request, released Monday, again seeks cuts to a number of scientific and medical research enterprises, including a 13 percent cut to the National Science Foundation, a 12 percent cut at the National Institutes of Health and the termination of an Energy Department program that funds speculative technologies deemed too risky for private investors.

NIH would face a roughly $4.5 billion budget cut, according to an HHS document. Among the big losers, if Congress were to sign off on the budget request, would be the National Cancer Institute, dropping from $6.1 billion to $5.2 billion, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, going from $5.5 billion to $4.75 billion.

The administration is highlighting its request for $1.3 billion for opioid and pain research “as part of the government-wide effort to combat the opioid epidemic.”

The NSF, which funds roughly a quarter of all federally supported basic science and engineering research in the U.S., would see its budget fall from $8.1 billion this year to $7.1 billion in 2020.

NASA faces a modest cut — 2.3 percent lower than the agency’s 2019 funding, which was approved last month by Congress. The $21 billion for NASA is more than the Trump administration asked for last year, as administrator Jim Bridenstine pointed out Monday in a statement describing the FY2020 budget as “one of the strongest on record for our storied agency.” Bridenstine said the budget keeps NASA on track for putting humans on the moon again by 2028.

But the proposed NASA budget does not include money for a new space telescope, WFIRST, which would look for distant planets and study the mysterious “dark energy” permeating the cosmos. Two Earth science missions aimed at understanding climate would be eliminated, as would an educational effort, the Office of STEM Engagement.

The White House also sought to defer upgrades to NASA’s Space Launch System — a powerful new rocket that is still in development — and move some its proposed payloads to other vehicles.

The Trump budget proposes to eliminate three environmental programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Sea Grant, which supports environmental research on the coasts and in the Great Lakes; the National Coastal Zone Management grants, which provides incentives for states to restore and sustainably develop coastal resources; and the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, established by Congress 19 years ago to revive plummeting salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest.

The new budget request drew immediate criticism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “If enacted, the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the fiscal year 2020 non-defense discretionary budget would derail our nation’s science enterprise,” said AAAS chief executive Rush Holt, a physicist and former Democratic congressman.]]></description>
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    <title>How Breast Size Affects How Women Exercise</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-11T17:29:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/well/move/how-breast-size-affects-how-women-exercise.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The results were consistent and rather worrying. As women’s breast sizes grew, their participation in physical activity declined, particularly if that exercise was vigorous. Few very-large-breasted women jogged, for example.

Many of the larger-breasted women also reported that they believed that their breast size prevented them from exercising easily, even in low-impact activities like walking or swimming.

These results remained the same when the researchers considered age, which affects exercise participation, and body mass index, which likewise affects how often we exercise. Over all, slimmer women tended to have smaller breasts and vice versa. But even among overweight women with small breasts and normal-weight women with large bosoms, the relationship to exercise was unchanged.

Women with larger breasts, whatever their B.M.I., exercised less on average than those with smaller ones and were more likely to feel that their breast size interfered with moving.

The upshot is that women should be encouraged to learn how to find and fit a high-quality sports bra or swimsuit with adequate breast support, says Celeste Coltman, now an assistant professor ]]></description>
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    <title>Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-11T01:13:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/28/weekend-catch-up-sleep-is-lie/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The negative health effects of skimping on sleep during the week can’t be reversed by marathon weekend sleep sessions, according to a sobering new study.

Researchers have long known that routine sleep deprivation can cause weight gain and increase other health risks, including diabetes. But for those who force themselves out of bed bleary-eyed every weekday after too few hours of shut-eye, hope springs eternal that shutting off the alarm on Saturday and Sunday will repay the weekly sleep debt and reverse any ill effects.

The research, published in Current Biology, crushes those hopes. Despite complete freedom to sleep in and nap during a weekend recovery period, participants in a sleep laboratory who were limited to five hours of sleep on weekdays gained nearly three pounds over two weeks and experienced metabolic disruption that would increase their risk for diabetes over the long term. While weekend recovery sleep had some benefits after a single week of insufficient sleep, those gains were wiped out when people plunged right back into their same sleep-deprived schedule the next Monday.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s Science Adviser Won’t Challenge Him on Climate Change Misinformation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-10T22:56:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/10/trumps-science-adviser-wont-challenge-him-on-climate-change-misinformation/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[    Droegemeier, 60, became director of the White House Office of Science and Technology in January. And there was little on the record about his specific views on climate change. But given his stellar reputation, scientists might expect him to act as a corrective to a president who regularly uses winter storms to mock climate change and erroneously suggests that global warming isn’t real.

    So when the news came in late February that the White House was putting together a panel to see if climate change is really a threat, even though the Defense Department has already said it is, and that this panel would be run by renowned physicist William Happer — who thinks carbon dioxide is “a benefit to the world” — it felt like an opportunity to delve a little deeper.

    But in an interview in his brand-new office next to the White House, Droegemeier evaded questions about his own views. He told VICE News he has no opinion on the president’s winter-storm tweets and has no plans to talk to him about them.

    “The main thing for me is to provide the president with the best science advice possible,” he said.]]></description>
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    <title>Canada is on Track to Lose a Third of Its Churches Over the Next Decade</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-10T22:53:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/10/canada-is-on-track-to-lose-a-third-of-its-churches-over-the-next-decade/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A third of Canada’s churches will disappear over the next decade, according to a charity that works to preserve buildings. That amounts to about 9,000 religious spaces that will no longer be in use. ]]></description>
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    <title>If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-09T00:04:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/science/asteroids-nuclear-weapons.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Despite what Hollywood tells us, stopping an asteroid from creating an extinction-level event by blowing it up may not work.
In a simulation, material smashed away from an asteroid following a collision is attracted back to the object by its gravity.CreditBy Charles El Mir/johns Hopkins University

Faced with the prospect of a sizable asteroid heading toward Earth and causing doomsday, humanity has come up with various responses.

Hollywood may reckon that the best way to destroy an errant space rock is with nuclear weapons. This is rarely the preferred option of experts, but using some sort of spacecraft system to smash an asteroid into small, harmless pieces is seen as a real-world possibility. A new study, looking at a gigantic space rock-on-space rock clash, hints at how utterly ineffective this type of asteroid assassination attempt may be.

Using computer models, scientists simulated a 4,000-foot asteroid smashing into a 15.5-mile asteroid at 11,200 miles per hour. Immediately after colliding, the large asteroid cracked considerably, with debris flowing outward like a cascade of Ping-Pong balls. Despite some deep fractures, the heart of the asteroid was not comprehensively damaged.]]></description>
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    <title>MIT story on study about hipsters looking alike confirmed by man complaining about hipster photo - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-08T03:26:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/07/hipsters-all-look-same-man-inadvertently-confirms/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Getty Images completed its review Tuesday. Its response was decisive: Definitely just a model — a different bearded, beanie-wearing guy.

“Wow, I stand corrected,” the litigious bearded man wrote back to the Technology Review after learning his mistake this week.

“In other words,” Lichfield wrote in a widely shared Twitter thread Wednesday, “the guy who’d threatened to sue us for misusing his image wasn’t the one in the photo. He’d misidentified himself. All of which just proves the story we ran: Hipsters look so much alike that they can’t even tell themselves apart from each other.”]]></description>
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    <title>How YOU Can Detect Earthquakes in Your Own Home! | Rebecca Watson on Patreon</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-08T03:04:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-you-can-in-25216202</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a state, California is basically guaranteed to experience a big (6.7 or higher) earthquake in the next 30 years. Scientists can’t really predict when an earthquake is going to happen, but they can examine historical data and geological surveys to tell us our relative chances over longer periods of time. The major faults of California are very well-studied, so we know that there’s about a 30% chance that the Big One is going to happen here in my neighborhood along the Hayward Fault, and a total 63% chance that it will happen along one of the many faults of the Bay Area. The predictions for Los Angeles are similar, but a little worse: they have a 67% chance that it’ll happen there, and they have a higher chance that it will be larger than 6.7 magnitude.

It’s not just California that geologists are studying, though. There’s a global network of seismological data that is constantly being updated, because our planet’s plates are constantly moving, rubbing up against each other, pushing together, and pulling apart. I use an app on my phone called QuakeFeed -- it’s free, this isn’t an ad -- and it shows me all of the most recent earthquakes recorded around the world.

Considering that I get alerts about earthquakes that happen literally in the middle of the Pacific Ocean without so much as a deserted island around, I was shocked recently to realize that there are quite large gaps in our understanding and monitoring of earthquakes around the world.

I recently stumbled across Raspberry Shake, and I found it absolutely delightful for a number of reasons. First of all, it’s a low-cost seismograph that is able to be used by an absolute amateur. Citizen science at its finest: they start at under $500 and we can put them anywhere, including in schools where kids can learn about seismology, geology, and technology. And then there’s the name -- it runs on the incredibly efficient Raspberry Pi processor, a simple, easy-to-use, tiny, and inexpensive computer. So they called it Raspberry Shake. Jeez, that’s adorable.]]></description>
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    <title>One More Time, With Big Data: Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-06T00:58:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/measles-vaccine-autism.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In emphatic language, the researchers, who followed 657,461 Danish children born between 1999 and 2010, stated in the Annals of Internal Medicine: “The study strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with clustering of autism cases after vaccination.”

Denmark offers a national vaccination program that is free and voluntary. At regular intervals, a team led by Dr. Anders Hviid, who is with the department of epidemiology research at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, followed the children, 31,619 of whom remained unvaccinated.

The researchers further broke out subgroups of children according to other inoculations, and whether they had siblings with autism.

In time, 6,517 children received a diagnosis of autism. These researchers found no greater proportional incidence of the diagnosis between the vaccinated and unvaccinated children. This conclusion echoes a finding in their 2002 study of 537,303 Danish children, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.]]></description>
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    <title>H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic</title>
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    <dc:date>2019-03-04T01:11:03+00:00</dc:date>
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    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/opinion/how-goes-the-trade-war.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Saturday economists from Columbia, Princeton, and the New York Federal Reserve released a paper, “The impact of the 2018 trade war on U.S. prices and welfare,” that used detailed import data to assess the tariffs’ impact. (The paper, by the way, is a beautiful piece of work.) The conclusion: to a first approximation, foreigners paid none of the bill, U.S. companies and consumers paid all of it. And the losses to U.S. consumers exceeded the revenue from the new tariffs, so the tariffs made America poorer overall.]]></description>
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    <title>Gateway Moon station: Canada joins Nasa space project</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Canada will contribute US$1.4bn to a proposed Nasa space station that will orbit the Moon and act as a base to land astronauts on its surface. Prime Minister…]]></description>
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    <title>SpaceX just rocketed the first private mission to the moon — an Israeli lunar lander. Here's how to watch the launch.</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday night, and you can watch the event live on YouTube starting around 8:30 p.m. ET. The launch from Cape…]]></description>
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    <title>The Obama Presidential Library That Isn’t</title>
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    <title>Employment and Wage Gains Lifted Household Incomes in Late 2018 | The Hamilton Project</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-22T03:37:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/household_income_likely_continued_to_grow_as_employment_and_wage_gains_lift</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You have JavaScript turned off! Javascript is required for the best experience on this site. Papers Papers THP collaborates with leading experts to produce…]]></description>
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    <title>Scientists discover the origin of Stonehenge stones – quarries 180 miles away</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-21T01:49:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Stonehenge quarry, Carn Goedog. (University College London) A team of archaeologists in the United Kingdom says it has traced dozens of Stonehenge’s massive…]]></description>
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    <title>Why Poor Children Can’t Be Picky Eaters</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-17T05:02:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/opinion/why-poor-children-cant-be-picky-eaters.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I met plenty of poor parents who wished that their children liked healthier food. But developing their children’s palates has hidden costs. When I asked her about offering cauliflower 10 times to shape her son’s tastes, a poor mother from a town outside Boston said: “No. No. That’s a lot of wasted food.” This mother faces an uncomfortable choice: She can experiment and risk an empty cupboard, or she can make her food last by serving what her son likes, even if it’s not the healthiest and even if she feels guilty about it.

Wealthier parents didn’t face this trade-off. These parents met plenty of mealtime challenges — time scarcity, resistant children, the emotional toll of serving an unappreciative audience. The cost of waste posed fewer concerns. One middle-class mother has hated fruit all her life. But she offered her daughter a host of fruits early on. When I asked her about the cost of possible food rejections, she said, “Honestly, it never crossed my mind.”

But the poor parents I followed had little leeway to ignore waste. One mother strove to provide healthy food on a budget. She cooked rice and beans or pasta with bruised vegetables bought at a discount. These meals cost relatively little — if they’re eaten. But when her children rejected them, an affordable dish became a financial burden. Grudgingly, this mother resorted to the frozen burritos and chicken nuggets that her family preferred.

To consume a variety of nutritious foods, children need to acquire new tastes. This is an opportunity that many families cannot provide. Schools can familiarize children with nourishing foods through gardening, experience-based nutrition education and healthy school meals. Because many schools lack the funding to expose children to varied, wholesome foods, it is essential to expand the promising programs that have begun to address this problem.

Pediatricians and nutrition educators can also suggest how to reduce waste. Recommendations could include offering foods that are shelf-stable and easily divisible, like frozen fruits and vegetables, so parents can offer small amounts repeatedly without generating excessive waste. Parents’ preferences are also part of the solution. When parents eat foods from apple to zucchini, they can offer children a bite with less risk of waste. Cooking and food education classes can help to shape parents’ tastes, too.

Many parents I met struggled with their kids at mealtime. Many fell back on their children’s favorites when time and energy ran low. And some poor parents used food to make their kids happy amid hardship. But they also faced a hidden cost to fostering healthy habits.

When we think about whether families can afford a healthy diet, we must keep this hidden cost in mind. Let’s start by talking less about how the poor are failing and more about how to help families provide the food their children need.]]></description>
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    <title>The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-23T21:18:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wealthier people can afford to pay for services like child and elder care, while low-income families are more likely to rely on nearby relatives. It seems likely that the more education someone has, the farther from home they go, said Robert A. Pollak, an economist at Washington University’s Olin Business School in St. Louis, who studies the economics of family. Middle-class and educated two-income couples — say, a schoolteacher and a nurse — seem to be more likely to live near parents than those with professional degrees. 

“It speaks to a class divide in the population,” Mr. Pollak said. “Particularly as you go further down the socioeconomic scale, people are living pretty close to their parents, and this means they’re able to provide help.” 

Families live closest in the Northeast and the South, and farthest apart on the West Coast and in the Mountain States. Part of the reason is probably cultural — Western families have historically been the least rooted — but a large part is geographical: People live farther apart in rural areas. 

Married people live farther from their parents than singles, and women are slightly likelier than men to leave their hometowns. Blacks are more likely to live near their parents than whites, while Latinos are no more likely to live near their parents, but more likely to live with them, according to data from Janice Compton, an economist at the University of Manitoba, and Mr. Pollak. 

In these family dynamics, a key change is the role of women, who have typically been the nation’s unpaid caregivers. Now that most women also have jobs, if the family doesn’t have extra income to pay for child care or elder care, the financial and time strain become intense. 

“The culture of caring is not well rewarded in this country,” said Anne Tumlinson, a health care policy analyst and consultant who writes about elder care at Daughterhood.org. “You go from raising your kids and dealing with all the challenges of compromising your career that come along with that, and then all of a sudden you’re thrust back into a caregiving role.” 

Economists, always eager to quantify things like love and kinship, see family caregiving dynamics during adulthood as a series of trade-offs and payments — of either time or money. Grandparents help care for grandchildren; their own children will help care for them later. 

Career and income affect which type of payment families choose. The most-cited reason for living near home is the tug of family ties, while the most-cited reason for leaving is job opportunities, according to a Pew Research Center survey. It found that with the exception of college or military service, 37 percent of Americans had never lived outside their hometown, and 57 percent had never left their state. 

Culture also plays a role. Mexican-American households are more likely to provide in-person care, while Euro-American households are more likely to provide financial support, according to research led by Natalia Sarkisian, a sociologist studying families at Boston College.

Grown children are the single greatest source of care for the elderly in the United States, according to AARP. But the supply of family caregivers is not keeping pace with demand, AARP found: There are now seven potential family caregivers for every person over 80, which is expected to fall to four by 2030. ]]></description>
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    <title>Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: &quot;Much-derided No Child Left Behind sanctioning of poorly performing schools seems to work https://t.co/QnoNNjkWTr https://t.co/DgSz0GBDfm&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-20T22:57:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/677678142165794816</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Much-derided No Child Left Behind sanctioning of poorly performing schools seems to work http://www.nber.org/papers/w20511  ]]></description>
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    <title>Trade and the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-20T22:21:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For the most part, in other words, declining manufacturing employment isn’t due to trade. Again, that doesn’t mean that trade deficits are OK, or that trade hasn’t had other effects. But even if we’d had a highly protectionist world or in some other way had blocked the move into trade deficit, we’d still have seen most of the great decline in industrial jobs.]]></description>
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    <title>Drug overdose deaths in the US reach record levels - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-19T17:05:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More than 47,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2014 - the most ever recorded in one year, US officials say.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on Friday that showed overdose deaths jumped 7% from just one year earlier.
The spike in deaths has coincided with a rapid rise in the abuse of opioid-based prescription painkillers such as oxycontin and hydrocodone.
The CDC said 61% of the deaths involved some type of opioid, including heroin.
Many abusers of painkillers shift to using heroin as it becomes harder to obtain the prescription medications.
"The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths," the CDC's report reads.]]></description>
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    <title>The most important fact about student debt, explained in 2 maps - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-02T03:48:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9827558/student-debt-maps</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The highest loan balances are in some of the city's wealthiest areas — its northwest side and suburbs, home to doctors, lawyers, and government officials. The poorer southeast quadrant and the zip codes of southeast Maryland don't have the high loan balances that come with residents with graduate degrees. But the ones who have loans in those areas really are struggling.

The same pattern of high balances not matching high delinquency rates shows up in other states and cities across the country.

This contradiction, that the people who borrow the most in student loans often end up doing fine, makes it hard to create a sensible student loan policy. Many people think of the student loan problem as all about balances. But it's really about the hidden, struggling borrowers, whose inability to pay back their loans can follow them for life.]]></description>
<dc:subject>inequality studentloans economics usa government college statistics research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/us/few-complaints-against-chicago-police-result-in-discipline-data-shows.html">
    <title>Chicago Rarely Penalizes Officers for Complaints, Data Shows</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-20T04:23:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/us/few-complaints-against-chicago-police-result-in-discipline-data-shows.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In 18 years with the Chicago Police Department, the nation’s second-largest, Jerome Finnigan had never been disciplined — although 68 citizen complaints had been lodged against him, including accusations that he used excessive force and regularly conducted illegal searches.

Then, in 2011, he admitted to robbing criminal suspects while serving in an elite police unit and ordering a hit on a fellow police officer he thought intended to turn him in. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. “My bosses knew what I was doing out there, and it went on and on,” he said in court when he pleaded guilty. “And this wasn’t the exception to the rule. This was the rule.”

Mr. Finnigan is one of thousands of Chicago police officers who have been the subject of citizen complaints over the years but have not been disciplined by the department, according to data released this month by the Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalism organization, and the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School. Such information is rarely made public and has come to light in Chicago only after a decade-long legal battle by the institute and the clinic.]]></description>
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    <title>More Mexico migrants leaving US than arriving - study - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-20T01:36:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34874315</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new study has found that a longstanding flow of immigration has been reversed - more Mexicans are leaving the US than migrating there.
More than one million Mexicans and their families, including their US-born children, returned to Mexico from 2009 to 2014 after living in the US.
Meanwhile, only 870,000 Mexicans moved in to US during the same time period, creating a net loss of 140,000 people.
An uneven economic recovery in the US was cited as a reason behind the shift.
Industries where migrants typically found work, such as construction, have not rebounded since the US emerged from a recession in 2009.
While increased border security has been an issue in the US presidential race, the report by Pew Research Center found that existing border controls have also made it harder for undocumented Mexicans to enter the US.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/opinion/despair-american-style.html">
    <title>Despair, American Style</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-11T22:37:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/opinion/despair-american-style.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So what is going on? In a recent interview Mr. Deaton suggested that middle-aged whites have “lost the narrative of their lives.” That is, their economic setbacks have hit hard because they expected better. Or to put it a bit differently, we’re looking at people who were raised to believe in the American Dream, and are coping badly with its failure to come true.

That sounds like a plausible hypothesis to me, but the truth is that we don’t really know why despair appears to be spreading across Middle America. But it clearly is, with troubling consequences for our society as a whole.

In particular, I know I’m not the only observer who sees a link between the despair reflected in those mortality numbers and the volatility of right-wing politics. Some people who feel left behind by the American story turn self-destructive; others turn on the elites they feel have betrayed them. No, deporting immigrants and wearing baseball caps bearing slogans won’t solve their problems, but neither will cutting taxes on capital gains. So you can understand why some voters have rallied around politicians who at least seem to feel their pain.

At this point you probably expect me to offer a solution. But while universal health care, higher minimum wages, aid to education, and so on would do a lot to help Americans in trouble, I’m not sure whether they’re enough to cure existential despair.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.demos.org/blog/3/3/15/child-poverty-rate-married-families-extremely-high">
    <title>The Child Poverty Rate For Married Families Is Extremely High</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-11T19:59:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.demos.org/blog/3/3/15/child-poverty-rate-married-families-extremely-high</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Amusingly, Nordic benefits are so successful that Nordic children in single-mother families actually have lower poverty rates than American children in married-couple families.

If your goal is actually to cut child poverty levels as much as possible, then broad-based family benefits are the proven solution. In the US, that would mean converting our ridiculous child tax code benefits into a universal per-child cash benefit, providing paid family leave for newborns, and providing child care benefits. If you want to take it one step further than that, you'd also include robust income supplements, like Finland's General Housing Allowance, which is a deep cover Negative Income Tax.

If, on the other hand, your goal is to deflect from our economic institutional failures by finding higher poverty populations to blame, then keep on beating the single mother drum.]]></description>
<dc:subject>poverty statistics economics research government youth children</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/swlh/mobile-app-developers-are-suffering-a5636c57d576">
    <title>Mobile App Developers are Suffering</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-11T02:02:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/swlh/mobile-app-developers-are-suffering-a5636c57d576</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These types of mathematical relationships are called a power laws, and are often used to explain the phenomena behind the 80/20 rule (80 percent of the value is centralized in 20 percent of the distribution). More generally, a power law will explain why value is centralized to a small distribution of the ecosystem.

The app ecosystem has an extremely harsh power law where app adoption and monetization are heavily skewed towards the top few apps. It’s nowhere near 80/20. In fact, it appears to be more like 99% of the value is centralized to the top 0.01%. Let’s call it the app store 99/0.01 rule.

This would indicate that the App Store became saturated back in 2008 when we hit 1000 apps.]]></description>
<dc:subject>software technology mobile research statistics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/demand-creates-its-own-supply/">
    <title>Demand Creates Its Own Supply</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-04T06:53:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/demand-creates-its-own-supply/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In fact, not only doesn’t supply create its own demand; experience since 2008 suggests, if anything, that the reverse is largely true – specifically, that inadequate demand destroys supply. Economies with persistently weak demand seem to suffer large declines in potential as well as actual output.

The suggestion that this might be true goes back a long ways, to work by Olivier Blanchard and Larry Summers in the 1980s. But events since the crisis provide a lot more evidence, just as they do on fiscal multipliers. A new paper by Fatas and Summers looks at the impact of fiscal austerity, not on actual output, but on estimates of potential output; it finds large negative effects.

The implications are shocking: austerity looks like even more of a catastrophe than the conventional analysis indicates. In fact, it’s a pretty good bet that imposing austerity in economies that can’t offset its effects with monetary policy inflicts pain without any gain whatsoever: by reducing the future size of the economy and hence the tax base, austerity actually worsens the fiscal outlook.

The Very Serious People have a lot to answer for. But of course they never will.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/upshot/what-the-evidence-tells-us-about-tea.html">
    <title>Health Benefits of Tea? Here’s What the Evidence Says</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-06T19:38:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/upshot/what-the-evidence-tells-us-about-tea.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At the end of all of this, I’m a little less impressed with the body of evidence regarding tea than I was with that of coffee. I admit that this is an interpretation, and others may disagree. The lack of a dose response in many of these trials, coupled with the fact that so many were performed in countries with markedly different tea consumption from our own, makes these results less generalizable than those of coffee were.

But the conclusions I would make are similar. I wouldn’t strongly recommend that anyone take up tea based on these findings. But there seem to be few harms, and some potential benefits. Drink it if you like it. It, too, seems to be a completely reasonable addition to a healthful diet.]]></description>
<dc:subject>tea health science research</dc:subject>
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    <title>Girls Are the Fastest-Growing Group in the Juvenile Justice System</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-02T05:35:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/girls-make-ever-growing-proportion-kids-juvenile-justice-system</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over the past 20 years, there’s been a promising decline in arrests of youths in the United States. The reasons for the drop are elusive, but one factor might be a renewed interest within the juvenile justice system in paying better attention to child welfare before kids are drawn to crime. States are also seeking alternatives to traditional punishment once kids are in the system.

But a new report out this weekfinds that for young girls, the trend is going in the opposite direction. The proportion of girls in the juvenile justice system has increased at every stage of the process over the last 20 years, from arrests to detention and probation.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/standing-desks-and-health/">
    <title>Standing desks and health | The Incidental Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-02T05:22:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/standing-desks-and-health/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve been standing at my workstation for several years, and there’s no way I’d go back to sitting all day. I’m much more comfortable standing (less back/neck/arm discomfort, resulting in a better mood). But that’s as close as I’d get to a health claim. I don’t think it’s making me fitter or adding years to my life. If you’re looking for a massive productivity or health boost from your standing desk, a 2014 systematic review may disappoint you.

It concludes that standing and treadmill desks probably offer some health value, more so for obese users, but the evidence isn’t strong and there are hedge words all over the conclusion (my emphasis):]]></description>
<dc:subject>health research science posture</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726">
    <title>Dairy, Supplements Do Little For Bones, Study Finds</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-30T21:23:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nbcnews.com/health/diet-fitness/calcium-supplements-or-dairy-doesnt-strengthen-bones-study-finds-n435726</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new study should put the final nail in the coffin for any lingering beliefs that calcium supplements are good for you.

The new study finds that people over 50 don't get stronger bones either by taking supplements or from eating extra servings of calcium-rich foods such as dairy products.

The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal's online publication BMJ.com, support what U.S. health officials have been telling Americans for a few years now — taking calcium supplements is not just a waste of time, but it could be harmful. The extra calcium doesn't go to strengthen bones but instead can build up in the arteries, causing heart disease, or in the kidneys, causing kidney stones.

Dr. Ian Reid of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and colleagues did what's called a meta-analysis —they gathered all the high-quality studies they could find from around the world to see what they showed.

Most of the studies showed people over 50 get no benefit at all from taking either calcium supplements or from eating calcium in food. People were just as likely to have a fracture. A few studies showed that people who took calcium supplements might have a lower risk, but they were not very clear.

The most powerful type of study, a randomized controlled trial, showed no differences.

"Dietary calcium intake is not associated with risk of fracture, and there is no clinical trial evidence that increasing calcium intake from dietary sources prevents fractures," they wrote. "Evidence that calcium supplements prevent fractures is weak and inconsistent."

In 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued new recommendations saying there's not enough evidence to recommend taking calcium or vitamin D supplements, and recommending against it in some cases.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/media/the-plot-twist-e-book-sales-slip-and-print-is-far-from-dead.html">
    <title>The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip and Print Is Far From Dead</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-24T05:46:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/business/media/the-plot-twist-e-book-sales-slip-and-print-is-far-from-dead.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print.

As readers migrated to new digital devices, e-book sales soared, up 1,260 percent between 2008 and 2010, alarming booksellers that watched consumers use their stores to find titles they would later buy online. Print sales dwindled, bookstores struggled to stay open, and publishers and authors feared that cheaper e-books would cannibalize their business.

Then in 2011, the industry’s fears were realized when Borders declared bankruptcy.

“E-books were this rocket ship going straight up,” said Len Vlahos, a former executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, a nonprofit research group that tracks the publishing industry. “Just about everybody you talked to thought we were going the way of digital music.”

But the digital apocalypse never arrived, or at least not on schedule. While analysts once predicted that e-books would overtake print by 2015, digital sales have instead slowed sharply.]]></description>
<dc:subject>statistics research ebooks publishing business</dc:subject>
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    <title>Ignore Pope on climate, says Republican Marsha Blackburn - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-24T05:18:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34342808</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ms Blackburn declined to name the sources of her scepticism about mainstream science.
"We have met with different researchers," she says. "We had had numerous committee meetings in which we've had individuals come to present and from all of that and what we have been able to read you come to an opinion.
"There are some that feel like human activity is the cause for carbon emissions and because of that we need to revert to where we were in the 1870s for carbon emissions. I just choose to disagree with that."
Asked what scientific evidence would persuade her that climate change was a threat, she replied - "I don't think you will see me being persuaded."
Asked whether she accepted the theory of evolution she said: "No I do not."
Ms Blackburn's views matter because Republicans in Congress are trying to roll back President Obama's attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Professor Brian Hoskins, a leading climate scientist at the Royal Society said her remarks were "absolutely staggering".
"It is nonsense to say the world has cooled," Hoskins said. "If no evidence will persuade Ms Blackburn of climate change, that shows how well-founded her views are."]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate climatechange environment science research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-20/japan-dumbs-down-its-universities-at-the-wrong-time">
    <title>Japan Dumbs Down Its Universities</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-22T18:18:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-20/japan-dumbs-down-its-universities-at-the-wrong-time</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Essentially, Japan’s government just ordered all of the country’s public universities to end education in the social sciences, the humanities and law.

The order, issued in the form of a letter from Hakubun Shimomura, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, is non-binding. The country’s two top public universities have refused to comply. But dozens of public schools are doing as the government has urged. At most of these universities, there will be no more economics majors, no more law students, no more literature or sociology or political science students. It’s a stunning, dramatic shift, and it deserves more attention than it’s receiving.

It is also a very bad sign for Japan, for a number of reasons.

First of all, eliminating social science could signal a return to a failing and outdated industrial policy. Many observers interpret the change as an economic policy, intended to move the Japanese populace toward engineering and other technical skills and away from fuzzy disciplines. But if this is indeed the aim, it’s a terrible direction for Japan to be going.

Japan’s rapid catch-up growth in the 1960s and 1970s was based on manufacturing industries. This is common for developing countries. But when countries get rich, they typically shift toward service industries. Finance, consulting, insurance, marketing and other service industries don’t produce material goods, but they help organize the patterns of production more efficiently -- something Japan desperately needs. Since it's a country with a shrinking population, it can only grow by increasing productivity.

But Japanese productivity has grown very slowly since the early 1990s, and has fallen far behind that of the U.S. If Japan is going to turn this situation around, it will need more than a workforce of skilled engineers. It will need managers who can communicate with those engineers and with each other. It will need conceptual thinkers who can formulate business plans and strategic vision. It will need marketers who can establish and increase Japanese brand recognition. It will need financiers who can channel savings away from old, fading industries and toward productive new ones. It will need lawyers to sort out intellectual property cases and help businesses navigate international legal systems. It will need consultants to evaluate the operations of unprofitable, stagnant companies and help those companies become profitable again.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.npr.org/2015/09/19/441459103/when-it-comes-to-book-sales-what-counts-as-success-might-surprise-you">
    <title>When It Comes To Book Sales, What Counts As Success Might Surprise You</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-22T17:16:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/2015/09/19/441459103/when-it-comes-to-book-sales-what-counts-as-success-might-surprise-you</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But if that second book doesn’t sell, says Dystel, odds are you won’t get another chance. And that brings us to the Authors Guild survey. Just over 1,400 full- and part-time writers took part in the survey, the Guild’s first since 2009. There has been a 30 percent decline in author income since then and more than half of the respondents earned less than $11,670 (the 2014 federal poverty level) from their writing related income.

“No one likes to see the word ‘poverty level’ on a survey that has anything to do with people you know,” says Roxana Robinson, president of the Authors Guild. “You used to be able to make an absolutely living wage as a writer. You wrote essays and you published them in journals. You wrote magazine pieces and you got paid very well for those. And you wrote books and you got good advances. So being a writer, it didn’t usually mean you would be rich, but it had meant in the past that you could support yourself.”

Robinson says the landscape for writers has changed in many ways. They have to do more self-promotion, sometimes even offering their work for free online. The Authors Guild blames the decline in writers’ income on a combination of factors: online piracy of digital material, consolidation within the publishing industry which has led to more focus on the bottom line, the dominance of Amazon and the rise of self-publishing which has cut into the market for traditional publishers.

“I mean, there are lots of writers … thousands of writers who are making a good living from self-publishing,” says best-selling author Barry Eisler.

Eisler is a self-publishing advocate who says the Authors Guild doesn’t represent all writers. Its membership skews older and it is mostly interested in maintaining the status quo of traditional publishing. Self-publishing may not be for everyone, he says. There is no question writers have to be more entrepreneurial. But he says it also offers them a choice when it comes to money and control — and the end result isn’t really all that different from traditional publishing.]]></description>
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    <title>Creepy Smartwatch Spies What You Type on a Keyboard - Softpedia</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-20T03:23:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.softpedia.com/news/creepy-smartwatch-spies-what-you-type-on-a-keyboard-491604.shtml</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Researchers use the smartwatch's sensors to detect keyboard strokes

Using the watch's built-in motion sensors, more specifically data from the accelerometer and gyroscope, researchers were able to create a 3D map of the user's hand movements while typing on a keyboard.

The researchers then created two algorithms, one for detecting what keys were being pressed, and one for guessing what word was typed.

The first algorithm recorded the places where the smartwatch's sensors would detect a dip in movement, considering this spot as a keystroke, and then created a heatmap of common spots where the user would press down.

Based on known keyboard layouts, these spots were attributed to letters on the left side of the keyboard.]]></description>
<dc:subject>technology research privacy security</dc:subject>
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    <title>Entrepreneurship: Pretty Much Just for Rich People Now</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-14T04:53:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/entrepreneurship-increasingly-the-province-of-the-wealthy/404443/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But, looking at a broader data set on small business ownership in America, the numbers aren’t quite as promising. The optimistic findings about entrepreneurship in America are somewhat at odds with recent Census data, which finds that in general, small business growth isn’t that robust at all, especially compared to the pace of previous decades. The discord between the findings may be related to who was surveyed. While the Census surveys a largely representative sample of Americans, Harvard’s study looked only at Harvard Business School alums—an already selective group who likely have greater access to the capital and networks that can help small businesses thrive. The discrepancies between their answers and the larger picture of small-business ownership in the U.S. may hint at the fact that entrepreneurship is becoming a much more selective club that favors the affluent and excludes average Americans.

This inequity is disappointing news at a time when there’s already a growing divide between the country’s most affluent residents and everyone else. The existence of yet another venue where those with money and access are able to gain more while others flounder is bothersome, but it’s especially troubling since small businesses makes up such a significant share of the economy, and starting a business has long been a career path that was accessible to a wide array of people, allowing them to provide for themselves and their families, create jobs in their communities, and solidify a middle-class existence.

In the Harvard survey, respondents said that access to funding sources such as venture capital and angel investors was highly important. But that’s not traditionally how most small-business owners raise their funds. Instead average Americans have long relied on things such as personal savings, home equity lines, and smaller loans to fund their ventures—options that have been more difficult to come by since the recession. Karen Mills, a senior fellow at Harvard and a former head of the Small Business Administration who helped author the report, notes that the increasing prevalence of school debt may play a role, too. “A possible entrepreneur is less inclined to take the risk when they already have a large burden of student debt.”

Mills does note that the problem is solvable—one that state and local leaders can remedy through increasing access to capital and providing targeted help for small business owners, especially those in groups that are traditionally underserved, such as minorities, women, and low-income Americans. While the problem may have plenty of solutions, the entrepreneurship divide seems similar to so many other growing inequalities that leave the most affluent thriving and everyone else falling behind: There is lots of rhetoric but little action behind plans to bridge the gap.]]></description>
<dc:subject>business economics statistics research entrepreneurship wealth inequality</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/how-elementary-school-teachers-biases-can-discourage-girls-from-math-and-science.html?_r=0">
    <title>How Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-14T04:22:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/upshot/how-elementary-school-teachers-biases-can-discourage-girls-from-math-and-science.html?_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Beginning in 2002, the researchers studied three groups of Israeli students from sixth grade through the end of high school. The students were given two exams, one graded by outsiders who did not know their identities and another by teachers who knew their names.

In math, the girls outscored the boys in the exam graded anonymously, but the boys outscored the girls when graded by teachers who knew their names. The effect was not the same for tests on other subjects, like English and Hebrew. The researchers concluded that in math and science, the teachers overestimated the boys’ abilities and underestimated the girls’, and that this had long-term effects on students’ attitudes toward the subjects.

For example, when the same students reached junior high and high school, the economists analyzed their performance on national exams. The boys who had been encouraged when they were younger performed significantly better.

They also tracked the advanced math and science courses that students chose to take in high school. After controlling for other factors that might affect their choices, they concluded that the girls who had been discouraged by their elementary schoolteachers were much less likely than the boys to take advanced courses.

Although the study took place in Israel, Mr. Lavy said that similar research had been conducted in several European countries and that he expected the results were applicable in the United States. The researchers also found that discouragement from teachers in math or science wound up lowering students’ confidence in other subjects at school, showing again the potential importance of nods of encouragement.]]></description>
<dc:subject>education bias gender culture research statistics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/source-of-the-student-debt-crisis-is-not-expensive-tuition#.ir9gMgDyy">
    <title>The Source Of The Student Debt Crisis Is Not Expensive Tuition - BuzzFeed News</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-11T03:31:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/source-of-the-student-debt-crisis-is-not-expensive-tuition#.ir9gMgDyy</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[America’s surging student loan debt — which now totals more than $1 trillion — has been driven by older, low-income students at for-profit schools and two-year community colleges who enrolled in droves during the recession, according to a report released today by the Brookings Institution.
Many anecdotes suggest that the student debt crisis, and rising rate of student loan defaults, has been built by skyrocketing tuition costs and $100,000 loan tabs at America’s priciest four-year universities. But the report shows that the crisis is largely the result of a sharp rise in enrollment at for-profit colleges and community colleges, and that it is built by much smaller balances — many of just $8,000 or $15,000.
More troublingly, the report found, for-profit and community college students are defaulting in higher numbers — since 2011, more than a fifth defaulted within two years, more than double the number for borrowers at four-year universities. Many such borrowers, unable to make any payments, have only seen their loan balances swell since they left school.
The report marks a dramatic shift from fifteen years ago, when borrowing was dominated by graduate students and young people at four-year universities, mostly large public schools. In 1999, 70% of new borrowers were students at nonprofit four-year schools. But between 2009 and 2011, students at for-profit schools and community colleges made up almost half of all borrowers, some 45%.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/opinion/the-quieter-gun-death-toll.html">
    <title>The Quieter Gun Death Toll</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-11T00:54:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/opinion/the-quieter-gun-death-toll.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The grisly carnage from mass shootings regularly attracts the nation’s focus as a public safety issue, if only fleetingly. But the highest death toll from guns by far continues to be the far less noticed wave of suicides — nearly 20,000 a year — by Americans whose easy access to guns presents an irresistible temptation in a critical moment of despair.

Suicide accounts for two-thirds of the 30,000-plus gun deaths each year, as more than half of all suicides are carried out by firearms, according to the latest federal data.

If it takes a sensational statistic to spur national concern about such self-destruction, consider the latest research showing that 82 percent of teenage suicides by firearms involve guns left poorly secured or foolishly unprotected by members of their families. These young lives are impulsively lost in supposedly safe home environments, where just the presence of a gun has been found to increase the risk of suicide three times, according to a new report by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun safety organization.

The report also notes that 85 percent of people attempting suicide by gun succeed, while drug overdose, the main method chosen for suicide attempts, is fatal only 2 percent of the time. Ninety percent of those who fail in a suicide attempt embrace their second chance at life and do not eventually die by suicide.

There is stark evidence that easy access to guns compounds the crisis. The states with the five highest rates of gun suicides have gun ownership rates notably higher than the national average, according to the Brady study. Meanwhile, the gun lobby and firearm industry are engaged in a reckless campaign to have more Americans own and carry guns.

The suicide problem is enormously complicated without irresponsible access to guns. At a minimum, people who own guns should be required to keep them firmly under lock for the safety of society, let alone their own families.]]></description>
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    <title>The devastating argument against prescription drug cost shifting | The Incidental Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-09T22:37:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-devastating-argument-against-prescription-drug-cost-shifting/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ezekiel Emanuel made the very popular cost shifting argument in today’s New York Times:

Medicare negotiations would do nothing to contain drug prices for the 170 million Americans who have private health insurance, through their employer, the exchanges, or by self-purchase. Having the federal government negotiate lower prices for Medicare would most likely drive up prices on the private side as drug companies tried to recoup their “lost” profits.

Almost ten years ago I wrestled with exactly this cost shifting idea for the first time while writing a paper about a VA prescription drug plan for Medicare-enrolled veterans.

The VA purchases drugs at prices about 40% below those paid by Medicare drug plans, which are all private plans. Medicare does not use its price-setting power for drugs the way it does for hospital and physician services. Whether it should is a hot topic today, as it was during the run up to the 2003 law that created the Medicare drug benefit, Part D. The market consequences of a VA-Medicare drug plan would be similar to Medicare drug price setting: it would push the price paid for many drugs well below manufacturers’ claimed costs.

This is why drug manufacturers argue against Medicare drug price setting. Their argument frequently includes the claim that if Medicare (or the VA) pays a lot less for drugs, manufacturers will just shift costs to commercial market payers. Premiums will go up for everyone else. (It’s unclear to me why this should bother drug manufacturers, since, by this logic, they get paid either way, if not from Medicare, the VA, or Medicaid, then from commercial market plans. You’d think they’d want to keep quiet about that.)

I worked this cost shifting argument into my manuscript on a VA-Medicare drug plan. When he saw it, one of my co-authors paid me a visit. “Do you buy this cost shifting argument?” he asked.

“Sure,” I said. “If drug manufacturers are paid less by the VA or Medicare, don’t they need to make up for that lost revenue?”

“Well, do you think drug manufacturers are profit maximizing organizations?” His question was a trap.

“Of course! That’s why they cost shift.” I had just fallen right into it.

“Austin,” he said, “if they could profitably raise prices to commercial market payers after government ones pay less, why didn’t they raise those prices before? It suggests they left money on the table.”

There’s no response to this. It’s devastating. More in my cost shifting talk, papers [1 and 2], and blog posts.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21662365-scientists-are-developing-jab-might-only-need-be-given-once-lifetime-why-universal">
    <title>Why a &quot;universal&quot; flu vaccine may soon be a reality</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-09T03:29:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21662365-scientists-are-developing-jab-might-only-need-be-given-once-lifetime-why-universal</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But there are two big reasons to seek out a universal vaccine. One is the difficulty of matching the seasonal shot against circulating strains, given that mismatch can lead to thousands of excess deaths. The other, however, is that it a universal vaccine should significantly improve preparedness for a pandemic flu. In a pandemic flu the virus mutates so significantly that humans have little or no residual immunity to it. This can allow the virus to spread easily from person to person all around the world. The last flu pandemic, of H1N1, was in 2009. The Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta has estimated that the global death toll was more than 284,000. History is also replete with outbreaks of pandemic flu, some with far higher death tolls. (The so-called Spanish flu, a type of H1N1 which swept across the world in 1918-9, may have been responsible for between 50m and 100m people.) Many fear the next outbreak of pandemic influenza.

The good news is that even without a universal vaccine the world is better prepared than it has ever been for both seasonal and pandemic flu. Since 2006 the World Health Organisation has been working to help countries to improve their ability to protect citizens from pandemic disease. In that year it was only possible to produce 350m doses of vaccine. Since then, production capacity has been ramped up around the world, with many new manufacturers starting up in developing countries. The technology to produce vaccines in only three months is also widely available. In theory, were a new influenza pandemic to arise, manufacturers could now make 5.4 billion doses of pandemic vaccine. (The seasonal flu shot comprises three strains, while a pandemic flu would be only one strain thus allowing three times the quantity of pandemic vaccine to be produced.) With or without a universal vaccine the world is in a good position to meet the challenge of the next pandemic flu.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/09/08/quantifying-planned-parenthoods-critical-role-in-meeting-the-need-for-publicly-supported-contraceptive-care/">
    <title>Quantifying Planned Parenthood’s Critical Role In Meeting The Need For Publicly Supported Contraceptive Care</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-09T03:00:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/09/08/quantifying-planned-parenthoods-critical-role-in-meeting-the-need-for-publicly-supported-contraceptive-care/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood health centers serve a considerable proportion of all clients obtaining contraceptive care from safety-net health centers.
In 2010, 36 percent of the 6.7 million U.S. women receiving contraceptive care from safety-net family planning health centers were served at Planned Parenthood centers. And there are some areas of the country where women rely particularly heavily on Planned Parenthood: In 18 states, Planned Parenthood health centers serve more than 40 percent of women obtaining contraceptive care from a safety-net family planning health center. In 11 of those 18 states, Planned Parenthood serves more than half the women obtaining contraceptive care from a safety-net health center.

Planned Parenthood health centers often serve most or all of the safety-net contraceptive clients in their county.
In 68 percent of counties with a Planned Parenthood site (332 counties out of 491), these sites serve at least half the women obtaining publicly supported contraceptive services from a safety-net health center. And in 21 percent of counties with a Planned Parenthood site (103 counties), Planned Parenthood serves all of the women obtaining publicly supported contraceptive services from a safety-net health center.]]></description>
<dc:subject>plannedparenthood health healthcare statistics research</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-defense-of-corn-the-worlds-most-important-food-crop/2015/07/12/78d86530-25a8-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html">
    <title>In defense of corn, the world’s most important food crop</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-08T00:33:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-defense-of-corn-the-worlds-most-important-food-crop/2015/07/12/78d86530-25a8-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There’s a long list of things we ought to be doing to help address the problem of feeding a growing population. Some, like reducing food waste, are a clear win. Others, like buying organic, are more questionable. But the math on crop productivity is persuasive. If you eat a plant that yields twice the number of calories per acre, you halve the amount of land required to feed you. So, yes. Pass the polenta.]]></description>
<dc:subject>agriculture science research economics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2015/1/26/7897035/poor-financial-crisis-mortgage">
    <title>Scapegoating poor people for the housing crash is dumb. This study shows just how dumb.</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-31T01:22:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2015/1/26/7897035/poor-financial-crisis-mortgage</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ever since the subprime mortgage crisis broke in 2008, certain corners have clung to a narrative that centers not on reckless risk-taking by big banks or poor regulatory oversight but on, well, poor people, and the policies meant to help them afford homes.

According to this theory, policies meant to improve access to credit among low-income people and disadvantaged minorities, most notably the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA), encouraged banks to make risky loans, which eventually fell through, causing the crash. While many conservatives, like former Fed governor and Bush administration economist Randall Kroszner, rejected this view, others — including Charles Krauthammer, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and even ex-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg — have embraced it.

This theory has never had much empirical support behind it (just the opposite, really). But a new paper by Duke’s Manuel Adelino, MIT’s Antoinette Schoar, and Dartmouth’s Felipe Severino shreds it.

The study looks at who was actually taking out mortgages in the run-up to the crisis, and who defaulted once it hit. Their conclusion? The poor didn’t, in fact, start taking out more and bigger mortgages than everybody else. Borrowing rose, sure, but it rose for everybody. We all bought into the idea that housing prices would keep going up, and that faith doomed us — not loans made to the poor.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics research statistics housing mortgage economy</dc:subject>
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    <title>Being a college professor isn't really a cushy job</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-31T01:20:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2014/4/24/5647300/being-a-college-professor-isnt-really-a-cushy-job</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Boise State University anthropologist John Ziker has spent much of his career studying the cultural practices of indigenous people in Siberia (sample paper title: “‘Horseradish Is No Sweeter than Turnips’: Entitlements and Sustainability in the Taimyr Autonomous Region, Northern Russia”). Now chair of his department, he’s started doing fieldwork on something a bit closer to home: the practices of academics at Boise State.

His research suggests that his colleagues work fairly long hours (61 hours a week, on average), and that they spend, on average, only about 35 percent of their work weeks teaching:]]></description>
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