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No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote.

“Like poverty and racism, school shootings and police brutality, mass incarceration and sexual harassment, widespread extinctions and changing climate, Covid-19 might become yet another unacceptable thing that America comes to accept.” theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Well my Twitter feed right now reads like a line from a Brecht poem: they who laugh have simply not heard the terrible news yet.

According to Jewish tradition, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah, which began tonight, is a tzaddik, a person of great righteousness. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

May her memory be a blessing. Ruth Bader Ginsburg expanded the possibilities of family life and work—for women and for men. Our lives bear traces of her work, writes Joe Pinsker: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Students in an online class were told they had one of these 2 TAs. But behind the scenes, Emily Khazan, left, fulfilled TA duties for all 136 students. When student evaluations came in, though, guess which TA scored higher? #WomeninScience #womeninstem news.ufl.edu/2020/11/ta-bia…

Remember in Ebola all the discussion about needing to engage anthropologists to understand why African villagers would shun medical advice? Now we’ve got a much larger epidemic in our own country, but I hear no call to study the culture & mindset of those disregarding health recs

Iceland is crushing the curve for the 2nd time. Peak is reached 2 weeks post strict limitations, including but not limited to our swimming pools closed.

I'm waiting for the Swedish government to tell people that wearing reflectors when riding bikes gives a false sense of security and encourages people to ride at night when it's more dangerous. Because that's the logic they are using with masks.

"I really am sorry, from the bottom of my heart. But if the price we pay is 590 deaths a day then this in unacceptable." German Chancellor Angela Merkel begs Germans to follow coronavirus restrictions in an unusually emotional appeal ahead of Christmas.

A cautionary history of eugenics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Vikings Were in the Americas Exactly 1,000 Years Ago nytimes.com/2021/10/20/sci…

The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK biobank nature.com/articles/s4158… The first release of our sequencing of all 500k individuals of the UKB. Below is a short run through of some of our main findings 1/12

Out today on bioRxiv, we consider the application of multiset canonical correlation analysis to high-dimensional multi-omic data. Co-lead by Tuuli Lappalainen and David A Knowles (@davidaknowles.bsky.social) - we analyze 614 individuals from MESA measured on 5 (!) omics technologies.

🚨I wrote about a new study that makes clear just how exceptional America is, compared to other wealthy nations, at killing its own people--in large numbers & at young ages, during the pandemic and long before it. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The world's 30 most beautiful bookshops: 1. Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal

Photo from an airplane of the eruption (Ruv.is Páll Arnarson & Ernir Snær)

An issue when comparing the average carbon footprint of food is that it hides the variation *within* a given food. But the key message doesn't change: the 'best' (lowest impact) meats still tend to emit more than the 'worst' plant-based foods. ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-s…