We are also lagging in civic literacy. In a 2006 test given to college seniors at 25 random colleges the average grade was 48.4%. For example less than 46% know that “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created…
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Tightness–looseness across the 50 united states (pnas.org)
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Political parties that are more pro-oil development, pro-private car, pro-sprawl, and pro- additional resource use look to have even greater public support going forward. These desires will have even more potent effects on the already…
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Jodi Picoult: What Florida Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Book Bans (thedailybeast.com)
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The mice with two dads: scientists create eggs from male cells (nature.com)
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Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the earth-space battery foretells the future of humankind | PNAS
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SugarAndSand Shop | Redbubble
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Carl O. Sauer – Wikipedia He studied the route taken by early Native Americans, from the cultural Hearth of Tepic Mexico to the US Southwest. (LS)
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Jane Jacobs – Wikipedia Lewis Mumford – Wikipedia Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard Of The United States: Gottmann, Jean, Heckscher, August: 9781258416836: Amazon.com: Books Gottman took a sabbatical at…
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Scientists discover the mathematical rules underpinning brain growth (phys.org)
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Warning Signs At SVB May Have Been Missed Because Of Trump Era Stress Test Relaxations (forbes.com) It was the 16th largest US bank. (LS) Silicon Valley Bank collapse: CEO cashed out millions while employees got bonuses (msn.com) Perhaps…
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Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project | Elsevier Enhanced Reader I read about the reverse Flynn date from Europe about 2 decades ago. At that point it did not appear to be…
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United States Weekly Cumulative All-Cause Excess Deaths by Age Group – US Mortality Monitoring
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Federal health agencies warn Florida surgeon general about COVID vaccine claims – al.com 20221007-guidance-mrna-covid19-vaccines-analysis.pdf (floridahealthcovid19.gov) (Note, very little data is given with this study,…
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Just 24 States Mandate Sex Education for K-12 Students, and Only 9 Require Any Discussion of Consent. See How Your State Stacks Up – The 74 (the74million. The SIECUS State Profiles 2019 / 2020 – The State of Sex Ed Abstinence Only…
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Stats of the State – Teen Birth Rates (cdc.gov) Rep. Lauren Boebert Praises High Teen Birth Rates in Rural Areas While Announcing That She Will Be a 36-Year-Old Grandmother | by Monica Leigh French | Mar, 2023 | Medium Lauren…
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2 Key Examples of Junk Science in Forensics and Criminal Justice — ProPublica
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Drug OD deaths per year in the USA are running just above 100,000 LS 2020 Drug Overdose Death Rates | Drug Overdose | CDC Injury Center
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Suicides in the USA increased 31% from 2000 to 2020. Currently about 46,000 people a year successfully commit suicide. LS 2015 Washington Post county level map of US suicide rates County and State Data Map: Defining Mental Health…
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NHTSA’s 2021 Estimate of Traffic Deaths Shows 16-Year High About 2.5 million are injured each year due to vehicles. Some of these injuries are long term or lifetime in duration. (LS)
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Up to 40 percent of annual deaths from each of five leading US causes are preventable | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
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The disease burden of noncommunicable diseases – PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
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Tobacco-Related Mortality | CDC Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year.1,6 Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:1 More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from…
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Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation (plos.org)
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Consumption of a drink a day in comparison to none appears to provide decreased all-cause mortality (from other studies). Perhaps largely due to cardiac mortality benefits. Cardiac based death risk is the largest one by age 65, perhaps…
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A threat to free speech: Ron DeSantis targets journalists, media with new legislation (msn.com) Attack facts, attack history, attack books, attack teachers, attack science, attack memory, attack immigrants, attack LBG, attack…
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Economics for the future – Beyond the superorganism (energyandourfuture.org) Nate Hagens – Post Carbon Institute
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The only political question is the timetable to nihilistic ignorance and willful ignorance at the cultural level. Looking at the latest OECD skills study (which includes everyone regardless of academic achievement) our literacy level…
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