Thursday, May 30, 2019

Monday, May 27, 2019

Friday, May 24, 2019

BOOK: THE LEAVERS

Kobe, Lisa

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

DOCTOR SHORTAGE IN RURAL AREAS

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/21/725118232/the-struggle-to-hire-and-keep-doctors-in-rural-areas-means-patients-go-without-c?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news

SAVING NASHVILLE'S MUSIC ROW

https://www.curbed.com/2019/5/21/18633057/nashville-real-estate-preservation-music-row-cultural-district

MINNEAPOLIS ENDS SINGLE FAMILY ZONING

https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html

Monday, May 20, 2019

POPPER AND FALSIFICATION'S LIMITS

https://uneasymoney.com/2019/05/19/dr-popper-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-metaphysics/

Sunday, May 19, 2019

THE ANATOMY OF EMPATHY

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5973jq/joel-salinas-feels-patients-pain-mirror-touch-synesthesia

INSURERS DODGING OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION TREATMENT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-16/insurance-covers-mental-health-but-good-luck-using-it

WILLIAM BARBER TAKES ON RACE AND POVERTY

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/william-barber-takes-on-poverty-and-race-in-the-age-of-trump

DOES JOURNALISM HAVE A FUTURE?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalism-have-a-future

Saturday, May 18, 2019

Friday, May 17, 2019

SHOULD WE FEAR POPULATION AGING?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2019/05/14/should-we-fear-population-aging/

BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY MISAPPLIED

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/the-broken-windows-debate-survives-its-creators/589645/?utm_source=feed

GENES AND DEPRESSION

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/05/waste-1000-studies/589684/?utm_source=feed

WHY AMERICA'S BIRTH RATE IS DECLINING

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/real-lessons-americas-declining-fertility-rate/589651/?utm_source=feed

NO FIXED ADDRESS

https://www.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18624872/no-childhood-home-off-the-grid-story

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

WHY THERE'S AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS

https://www.curbed.com/2019/5/15/18617763/affordable-housing-policy-rent-real-estate-apartment

PEOPLE PREFER DISCRETION OVER RULES

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/05/simplerules.html

Friday, May 10, 2019

BOOK: FOOLS

Silber,  Joan

THE PECULIAR BLINDNESS OF EXPERTS

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

REASONS IT'S HARD TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neuronarrative/201707/8-reasons-why-its-so-hard-really-change-your-behavior

Sunday, May 5, 2019

VARIATIONS IN HEALTH CARE COSTS

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/upshot/health-care-huge-price-discrepancies.html

COUNTERING ONLINE EXTREMISM

https://www.wired.com/story/existential-crisis-plaguing-online-extremism-researchers/

Friday, May 3, 2019

BOOK: HARVEST

Crace, Jim

LIABILITY INSURANCE FOR ALL

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/05/yay-liability-insurance.html

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

CRIME AS A SALES TOOL

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/a-doorbell-company-owned-by-amazon-wants-to-start-producing-crime-news-and-itll-definitely-end-well/

THE ECONOMICS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES

Trump threatened sanctuary cities, and they shrugged—here’s why https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/05/01/trump-threatened-sanctuary-cities-and-they-shrugged-heres-why/