Cicerone
A Meta TourJohn Fremont’s Expeditions
John C. Frémont - Wikipedia
Genetic Influence on Political Views
Rose McDermott at The Interval at Long Now | San Francisco
Epigenetics and Public Health Policy
Epigenetics in the Neoliberal "Regime of Truth": A Biopolitical Perspective on Knowledge Translation - PubMed (nih.gov)
Neo Darwin, an Updated Quote
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its dissipative powers, having been originally induced into many forms of far from equilibrium dissipative systems; and that, whilst irreversible processes on this planet have produced entropy according to the fixed second...
Low US Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy in America (cnbc.com) Financial Literacy in the United States.pdf (milkeninstitute.org) Looking on the (B)right Side of Life: Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations (sagepub.com)
Canadian Life Expectancy Still Falling
Canadian life expectancy falls for third year in a row in 2022: StatCan | National Post
Low US Civics Knowledge
National Survey Finds Just 1 in 3 Americans Would Pass Citizenship Test - Institute for Citizens & Scholars (citizensandscholars.org)
Early Colonial Culture
The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History | History| Smithsonian Magazine Murder of Natives by Myles Standish rocked New England in 1623 (seacoastonline.com)
Income Inequality and Happiness
Income Inequality Makes Whole Countries Less Happy (hbr.org)
Election Denial in the USA
States United Action Releases First Election Denier Landscape for 2023 and 2024 Cycles - States United Democracy Center Since 2020, at least 42 states have had an Election Denier run for at least one of the statewide offices that oversee elections (governor, attorney...
Homicide Rates of the US Western Frontier
Tables for Homicide Rates in the West 8-2010.doc (live.com) The Deep Roots of American Violence | Howard Smead
Assets Held by the Bottom 50% FRED Quarter 2 2023
Share of Total Assets Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBSB50189) | FRED | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org) Share of Financial Assets Held by the 50th to 90th Wealth Percentiles (WFRBSN40166) | FRED | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org)...
O3 and Biodiversity; Science Advances 2020
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Aging in America
Why is Getting Old So Hard and Expensive in America? New Book Challenges How We Think. | Institute for New Economic Thinking (ineteconomics.org)
Ageism, and it’s Costs. JAMA: Levy: Yale School of Public Health
levy_2022_ic_210332_1643816444.50157.pdf (silverchair.com)
Vaccine Hesitancy and Cognitive Function PubMed
Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: cohort study - PubMed (nih.gov)
Brain Drain, College Degree Holders and Geographic Mobility The New Republic
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. | The New Republic
Maternity Care Deserts, a National Level Public Health Issue
Maternity Care Deserts Report | March of Dimes