Does lead in the air affect learning in school?
Stephen Pinker: The development of artificial general intelligence is incoherent and not achievable.
Increased access to physicians results in better health – at least in Nigeria.
If the estimates from Statista Consumer Marketing Research are accurate, from 2020 to 2022 the world bought 928 billion masks at a cost of $389 billion — most of them made of plastic. I wonder how much of the plastic ended up in the ocean?
Oops. The Inflation Reduction Act will increase taxes on millions of Americans earning less than $400,000, despite the president’s repeated promises not to do that. And that’s only for starters.
The complaints about IRS funding are a little threadbare.
The 87,000 new employees are not all agents by any means, and they would largely be replacing employees who retire.
The new funding is also for computer upgrades. One of the first proposed projects is a callback service. The IRS also has some departments where tax returns have to be retyped by employees because of limited scanning systems.