SCOTUS overturns Chevron deference. This is the big news of the day. A lot of Democrats will find that what they've been doing is no longer allowed. Hopefully this will mean a reversal of a lot of agency over-reach crap. More here.
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SCOTUS also upholds Grants Pass government, overturning Martin v Boise. A lot of people seemed to have missed the point. Sleeping out in the open may not be a crime, but camping out and turning public property into one's own personal yard, should not be legal. If you want to sleep, then sleep. But by morning, pack up all your stuff and leave that spot pristine.
The College Board has changed SAT testing. The tests are now digital, and the level of difficulty will change depending how well you are doing. If you are ace-ing the test, then apparently it will get more difficult. This sounds like equity efforts to me. Instead of everyone facing the same challenges, some people will get obstacles placed in their way to slow them down, to let the others catch up.
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Diversity Was Supposed to Make Us Rich. This was based on a study that now seems to have been more random luck than principle-based. Just being diverse doesn't generate excellence or competence, which are what really makes you rich. I've always believed that diversity is just good for art, food and music. For everything else, it's merit.
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Laid-off OHSU employees are getting half the severance pay than that Chief of People and less benefits. They don't continue to get paid like she is. They don't get COBRA benefits, like she is getting for just 19 months of work. OHSU probably just wanted to avoid expensive legal wrangling.
Fentanyl is costing Oregon hospitals around $6 billion. What are the hospital CEOs doing about this?
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There been a pause in the dismantling of Ha'iku Stairs. Because it's the home of the hoary bat, Hawaii's only native terrestrial mammal. There's still the problem that the base of the stairs are in private property, though.
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This is dumb. Multnomah County is enforcing a camping ban, but will still give out tents and tarps. Does that make sense?
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Google Translate added more languages to its repertoire. Almost double the number. I still use just a few.
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Interesting interview with Chris Cuomo and Dr. Robert Redfield, formerly head of the CDC. Around 46 minutes into the interview, he suggests that LongCOVID is due to the vaccine. A lot of what he is saying would have been considered heretical and grounds for losing one's license in 2021. Wish guys like him spoke up more back then. It would have avoided a lot of grief and headache.
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Nyobolt has developed a car battery that charges really fast – 80% in 5 minutes (under ideal conditions). I still won't buy an EV. Not until they make replacing the battery easier and reasonably inexpensive. And available in many retail outlets.
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Now the Biden administration wants to regulate research integrity. Someone's got to do it, but I don't want Biden's government doing it.
No easy answers, but the government should stay out....the Office of Research Intregrity has posted only 32 cases since 2008. No wonder there have been recent calls to criminalize research misconduct. No wonder, too, that some scientists are suspicious of the government’s attempt to solve with an oversight body a problem that has been besting established oversight bodies for years.
There is a bigger picture in play, however. As demoralizing as research misconduct is, we should hardly be surprised by its occurrence. The unscrupulous, like the poor, will always be with us. More demoralizing is how research misconduct is actually incentivized in our modern science ecosystem. Few people want to acknowledge that.
According to climate scientsts, a lot of tiny islands were supposed to be underwater. Some are but 89% are not, and some are enlarging.
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