Blindspot: Leather aromas from heaven

Time travel in “Dark” — the popular German Netflix show — a discussion by Taylor W. Cyr (Samford University)

Homeland Security To Ban International Students From U.S. If Their Colleges Adopt Online-Only Instruction

“Prisoners have long used contraband cellphones to pull off all manner of scamsfrom the inside. But in attempting to build and sell a house from behind bars, Murray allegedly took things to a new level of sophistication.”  Link here, recommended.

Charlie Songhurst is one of the smartest people I know.  Podcast with him, recommended.

Acoustic levitation of objects inside your body

How did Helen DeWitt and Andrew Gelman end up co-authoring a piece?  I’d like to read another piece on that, it could be co-authored by them too.

Blindsight.

Is the dam starting to break? (but in which direction?)  And “I am so sorry.” And another retraction.  And more.  Egads, and A+.

War over being nice.  Wordy at first, but an important attempt, recommended.

 Older people are less pessimistic about the health risks of Covid-19.

 “…these results document that voting rights, when combined with elected, rather than appointed, chief law enforcement officers, can lead to improved treatment of minority groups by police.”

“We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk-taking (negative) together account for two-thirds of the cross-country variation in student achievement.”

Covid summary update.

How the police think, good and highly relevant piece.

 New criticism of the relevance of the T-cell immunity factor.

 Amia Srinivasan on pronouns in LRB.

“I have identified 103 such professors who offer their public support of Trump through blogs, essays, op-ed pieces, public lectures, tweets, YouTube videos, and even a couple of trade books.“