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Nicholas A. Christakis

@NAChristakis

Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; and Connected. Luckily wed @ErikaChristakis

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Nifty social science and incredible title: 'Car Seats as Contraception.'

Laws raising age for which a child must ride in a car seat raised cost of having a third child, so women had fewer third children.

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via Nickerson & Solomon h/t Dean Eckles

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Masih Alinejad 🏳️(@AlinejadMasih) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iranian citizens are urgently campaigning on social media to save six young political prisoners facing imminent execution. They urge the international community to pressure the Islamic regime and halt these executions. To the free world: amplify the voice of the Iranian people.…

Iranian citizens are urgently campaigning on social media to save six young political prisoners facing imminent execution. They urge the international community to pressure the Islamic regime and halt these executions. To the free world: amplify the voice of the Iranian people.…
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Congrats to Joan Feigenbaum for being named a Fellow of the IEEE-USA!

A noted expert in security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability, Feigenbaum was cited for her contributions 'to trust-management systems and Internet algorithmics.'

Congrats to Joan Feigenbaum for being named a Fellow of the @IEEEUSA! A noted expert in security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability, Feigenbaum was cited for her contributions 'to trust-management systems and Internet algorithmics.'
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I totally agree with this. It's like saying that taking money from yourself is theft. You cannot steal your own words or ideas.

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I’ve decided to make a run for The Harvard Board of Overseers. I need 3,400 Harvard alumni signatures by January 31, 2024. I seek the support of my fellow Harvad alumni. Please follow the directions on my website.

harveysilverglate.com/harvard-corpor…

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'Harvard online course catalog has a search box. Type in “decolonize.” That word is in the titles of 7 courses and the descriptions of 18 more. “Oppression” and “liberation” are in the descriptions of more than 80 courses. “Social justice” is in >100.' thecrimson.com/article/2024/1…

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List of major universities searching for presidents at the moment (please add to the list):

Stanford
Harvard
Penn
Yale

Would that these and other institutions re-dedicate themselves to the actual mission of such universities: the preservation, production, and dissemination of…

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Artist’s painting of a hippopotamus on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC.

Perhaps a practice sketch, or a template, or maybe just a doodle of a hippo from 3,500 years ago! 🦛

Photo: The Met metmuseum.org/art/collection…

Artist’s painting of a hippopotamus on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC. Perhaps a practice sketch, or a template, or maybe just a doodle of a hippo from 3,500 years ago! 🦛 Photo: The Met metmuseum.org/art/collection… #Archaeology
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If it were up to me, all Ivy League universities would be run by people who believe it is morally wrong, in addition to being illegal, to single out a racial group and systemically assign them lower personality scores.

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If you are a Harvard alum, and want to help direct this important institution in a healthy direction, please consider voting for Harvey Silverglate by following the instructions on this form.

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Captain Sullenberger:

“This is a reminder of all the people out there who are not corrupt, who are courageous, who are compassionate, they’re doing things, important things, compassionate things all the time. We just don’t know who they all are,” he said.

“They haven’t been…

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Lengthy review of my book in the University of Chicago Law Review:

'Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and Theodore Dalrymple’s Life at the Bottom...Henderson updates this genre for the twenty-first century...His eye is as keen as his intellect' lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archive…

Lengthy review of my book in the University of Chicago Law Review: 'Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and Theodore Dalrymple’s Life at the Bottom...Henderson updates this genre for the twenty-first century...His eye is as keen as his intellect' lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archive…
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John McCain couldn't raise his arm all the way because he'd fought for our country and been tortured by our enemies.

Donald Trump is beneath contempt.

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“Rebuilding a culture of open debate also means, inevitably, reforming the one that has increasingly taken its place. The university has created a diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracy that, despite its anodyne name, has had a pernicious effect on campus speech. Gay was…

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An Iranian woman Roya Heshmati was lashed 74 times for refusing to wear the hijab.

When she went to receive her punishment, she refused to wear a hijab and was threatened with 74 more lashes. She still refused.

Here is her full testimony:

“This morning, I contacted my lawyer…

An Iranian woman Roya Heshmati was lashed 74 times for refusing to wear the hijab. When she went to receive her punishment, she refused to wear a hijab and was threatened with 74 more lashes. She still refused. Here is her full testimony: “This morning, I contacted my lawyer…
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