Category: Education
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A Racist Researcher, Exposed by a Mass Shooting (Un investigador racista, expuesto por un tiroteo masivo)
“The work of Michael Woodley, a Briton who was cited by the teenager who killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, included pseudoscientific theories that have been used to justify racism.” “BRUSSELS — The researcher claims there has been an I.Q. decline in France linked to large-scale migration from North Africa. He has […]
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Kahlo sets record for Latin American Art
www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/arts/design/frida-kahlo-painting-diego-y-yo-auction.html
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“so cash users (who tend to be poorer) are often subsidizing the perks going to credit card users (who tend to be richer)”
www.vox.com/the-goods/22454885/who-pays-for-credit-card-rewards Prices go up for everyone “merchants don’t want to pay those (transaction) fees out of their own pockets — so they pass some of them on in prices that everybody pays, not just the credit card holders.” “The guy paying in cash at the local hardware store probably doesn’t realize the $20 purchase he’s […]
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Wait, Vaccine Lotteries Actually Work?
Ooh, the behavioral economists are going to be so smug about this. — Read on www.wired.com/story/wait-vaccine-lotteries-actually-work/ “Lotteries for vaccines Actually Work? A few life-changing prizes may turn out to be just the thing to get vaccine-hesitant Americans to roll up their sleeves”
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When history textbooks have inconvenient facts, change textbooks
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/us/texas-history-1836-project.html
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Solar Power is the future, but currently is only used in non-developed countries, why?
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/world/middleeast/syria-solar-power-idlib.html
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Vaccine prices around the world vary greatly.
www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/19/969529969/price-check-nations-pay-wildly-different-prices-for-vaccines
