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
ID:788363167
http://www.HumanNatureLab.net 29-08-2012 02:38:45
49,7K Tweets
196,0K Followers
680 Following
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.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
via Nickerson & Solomon h/t Dean Eckles
'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…
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