Saturday, June 14, 2025

Worrying about fascism like it's 1925--an open letter

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 The organization https://stopreturnfascism.org / has published an open letter (in multiple languages) expressing concern, one hundred years...
Friday, June 13, 2025

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's centennial party is cancelled

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The Hebrew University in Jerusalem is older than the state of Israel, and is and has been a steady anchor in difficult times.  It was schedu...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Interdisciplinary science: a heated dispute

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 Here's an article in the latest PNAS, about issues in evolution that I know nothing about, but I was struck by how clearly the author m...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Evangelical resolution on the 21st Century

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 The NYT has the story: Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was moti...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

New York State senate passes medical aid in dying bill

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 Yesterday the NY State Senate took the next step in making medical aid in dying legal in NY.  Now the bill goes to the governor... The NYT ...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Medical aid in dying bill advances (controversially) in New York State

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 A bill to legalize Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) in New York state has passed the Assembly and been referred to the Senate (after which it wo...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Ransomware evolving

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  MedCity News reports on the evolving cat and mouse game between ransomware criminals and health care organizations. The Changing Landscape...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

College athletes are now professionals

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 For a long time the sports world tried to make a sharp distinction between amateur and professional athletes, especially in the Olympics an...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Disturbing NYT report about an Organ Procurement Organization in Kentucky

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 Deceased donation of organs mostly occurs after potential donors suffer brain death, which, roughly speaking, means the loss of all organiz...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Yale celebrates Larry Samuelson

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  Economist Larry Samuelson on Pioneering Game Theory Research at Cowles .  Yale professor Larry Samuelson's research was pivotal in the...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

INFORMS Market Design Impact Award: call for nominations

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 Here's the call for nominations for a new prize to recognize practical market design.  Call for Submissions: Market Design Impact Award...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The latest coffee science (and willing suspension of correlation not being causation skepticism)

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 The NYT has the good news, for those of us who appreciate getting certain parts of our science from newspapers: That Cup of Coffee May Have...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Medical aid in dying in Canada doesn't require a terminal diagnosis--should it?

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 Repugnance to medical aid in dying is sharpest when death isn't otherwise imminent.  Canada allows patients with irremediable pain to q...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Kidney Transplants in Pakistan. Many patients unaware that paying donors is illegal.

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Here's a recent paper on  "Barriers to Kidney Transplants in Pakistan.  A striking fact is that only 4.9% of patients with kidney f...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Children adopted from China can now find birth-family connections via DNA sites

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 Like children conceived with the help of anonymous sperm donors, adopted children can use DNA websites to search for family members.  For c...
Friday, May 30, 2025

American doctors moving to Canada

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 Many Canadian doctors practice in the U.S., where pay is generally higher and they may have more access to high tech imaging and other medi...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Tinder has plans to become less focused on hookups

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 The WSJ has the story: Tinder’s New Chief Is Out to Change Its Hookup-App Reputation. Spencer Rascoff is rethinking Match Group’s biggest a...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Medical aid in dying advances in France

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 The proposed French law has some familiar and some novel features. Reuters has the story: French lawmakers approve assisted dying bill, pav...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Kidney and liver exchange in India

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 Here's an update from Dr. Vivek Kute and his colleagues on kidney and liver exchange in India. Kute, V. B., Patel, H. V., Banerjee, S.,...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Ethical compensation for research participants: an open letter

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 Institutional review boards (IRBs) are often faced with the question of whether research participants should or must be compensated, and ho...