- Why french fries are so much worse that baked potatoes.
- Why David Henderson thinks you shouldn’t wait until age 70 to collect social security.
- The Administration’s case against mRNA vaccine contracts. (Statnews)
- Insurer sends condolences and cancels health insurance coverage in one brief letter.
- Washington Post: Because kids are leaving a failing public school district for better private schools, the community is going through a “grieving process,” and some families are “heart broken.” The school librarian pouts it feels like “death.”
- Buried deep in the Post story is an admission that “just 13% of students districtwide ranked proficient or better in math in 2023-24.”
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- EPA’ decision to stop regulating greenhouse gasses: $801.4 billion in total cost savings for the economy as a whole and a reduction of 87,007 paperwork burden hours.
- What’s going wrong at the BLS.
- A sober analysis of high-fructose corn syrup and cane sugar.
- New results: 7,000 is the healthiest number of steps to take each day. (NYT)
Tuesday Links
- Can AI help DOGE eliminate thousands of regulations?
- “In an aging world, government may see medically aided death as a cost saver.”
- M.D. vs. D.O. Does it matter? (NYT)
- “In 2020, 66% of U.S. entitlement spending went to the 17% of the population aged 65 and older. That age cohort contributed only 11% of U.S. direct tax revenues.”
- Pet care costs are rising almost as fast as child care.
Tuesday Links
- Do tariffs disproportionately hurt low-income households? Apparently not.
- “computer algorithms [will] soon be able to identify people not just by their faces, or fingerprints, or DNA — but by the unique ways they walk.”
- Approximately 67 percent of American women are considered “plus-size.”
- Organ transplants: (NYT)
A surgeon made an incision in her chest and sawed through her breastbone. That’s when the doctors discovered her heart was beating. She appeared to be breathing. They were slicing into Ms. Hawkins while she was alive…..
Fifty-five medical workers in 19 states told The Times they had witnessed at least one disturbing case of donation after circulatory death. Workers in several states said they had seen coordinators persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other drugs to hasten the death of potential donors.