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.