 Small Steps Toward A Much Better World 1. Hermeto Pascoal, RIP.
2. Smartphone bans had no positive effects in a series of English schools. You don’t have to believe it, rather consider it a challenge to come up with better research. In the meantime you should be agnostic, and also think more broadly about how hard it is to get significant treatment effects on adolescents. There is a reason why so many experts in this area are skeptical, or sometimes even scathing, about the Haidt-like arguments. The studies cited at that link are not the most rigorous ones, but they should show you just cannot will your way into the results you might like to find. Most likely smartphone bans in schools have some modest benefits, and still unknown costs.
3. “Trump administration officials on Monday responded to the activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination by threatening to bring the weight of the federal government down on what they alleged was a left-wing network that funds and incites violence, seizing on the killing to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents.” NYT link here. One of the worst things the Trump people have threatened to do.
4. Greenland woman fails Danish parenting test and loses her baby (NYT). There was no evidence of pending violence or abuse.
5. Another unlawful strike on a Venezeulan drug boat. If you thought this kind of interdiction could solve or even significantly alleviate the drugs problem, I could understand the case for it. But it won’t.
6. Yum.
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