- Should you get a full body MRI?
- Did you know that some public employees are paid to do nothing more than administer public sector unions?
- Why do nearly 90 percent of those with opioid use disorder lack access to evidence-based treatments like long-term medication-assisted treatment (MAT)?
- The traffic accident death of world-record marathon runner Kelvin Kiptum is not that unusual. Road crashes are now one of the top causes of the deaths in Africa.
- Scientists make progress toward developing blood tests for psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Love Explained
As most married couples discover, the “butterflies” we feel early in a relationship fly away at some point, returning only occasionally. “If passionate love is a drug—literally a drug—it has to wear off eventually,” writes the psychologist Jonathan Haidt. And then, many couples falsely conclude, “If the magic ended, it can’t be true love.”
Monday Links
- Steuerle on the marriage tax: marital penalties are marriage vow penalties easily avoided by those who don’t believe in the vows.
- Lookism: how you look may affect your outcome in courts of law. HT: Tyler
- Margaret Mead was an early LSD experimenter with CIA funding.
- A little appreciated fact about federal government finances: for the past 50 years federal revenues have averaged about 18% of GDP and have never reached 20% — despite many many changes in the tax code. Could this represent a “law” of public finance?
Does Society Hate Old People?
Kaiser Health News (now called KHN) published an article titled, “Do We Simply Not Care About Old People?” The inflammatory headline was about the high death toll of older adults from covid, saying:
The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults.