Links 1/14/20

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Links for you. Science:

No, I don’t think that this study offers good evidence that installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits.
Some of Australia’s Smallest Species Could Be Lost to Wildfires
State moves to prevent surge in HIV infections among homeless drug users
After a Measles Scare, Seattle Cracks Down on Vaccine Compliance
Funding Priorities by Institute or Center (interactive that tells you what frequence of grants at the Nth percentile are funded).

Other:

Afternoon of the Pawnbrokers (excellent)
Another Insane Trump Rant, But This One Had a Revealing Moment
The Most Popular Crook in America: The ominous approval ratings of Larry Hogan, the corrupt Republican governor of Maryland
Wedge Antilles Is the Unsung, Unkillable Hero of the Star Wars Saga
The Dismal Forecasts of the Dismal Scientists
For people who scorn the use of italics for emphasis in writing.
Tom Steyer’s Long Journey
The productivity of bullshit jobs
Joe Biden’s Role in Creating the Student Debt Crisis Stretches Back to the 1970s
Ex-Castro Staffer And Top Iowa Democrat Endorses Bernie Sanders (“Eadon, a 36-year-old veteran of Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns, does not fit the typical profile of a Sanders endorser. But a multiyear bout with trigeminal neuralgia, a rare nerve disease that causes acute facial pain, has ruined his finances and reshaped his politics.”)
Gen-X Women Are Caught in a Generational Tug-of-War
Shadow group provides Sanders super PAC support he scorns (Our Revolution has been nothing but trouble. He should shut it down)
Voters Oppose Automatically Enrolling The Uninsured In A Government Option
These Patients Are Hard to Treat: A study examined a popular approach that coordinated care for the most expensive patients, and found that the project did not reduce hospital admissions.
Nearly a quarter of Americans have never experienced the U.S. in a time of peace
Donald Trump Jr., Iran, and the Right-Wing Obsession with the Crusades
THE CHORES
The 2020 Election in Three Graphs
On the Waterfronts
The Singing Man of Mount Pleasant (Adams Morgan and elsewhere) “His name is Margarito.”
Why Are There So Few Black Coaches in the NFL? It’s the Racism, Stupid.

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