Clay Routledge
Prof & Director of Existential Science Lab @NDSU / Fellow @ChalleyInst / Senior Fellow @FamStudies / Faculty Affiliate @HFHarvard / fitness enthusiast
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We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?
A virologist helped crack an impossible problem: how to insure against the economic fallout from devastating viral outbreaks. The plan was ingenious. Yet we're still in this mess.
Clay Routledge
Fascinating article.
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Colleges Say Hybrid Courses Will Make the Fall a Success. But Will Students Get the Worst of Both Worlds?
“HyFlex” courses promise flexibility, but faculty members say that’s also what makes them so challenging to teach.
Clay Routledge
Interesting article about potential pros and cons of the HyFlex model many colleges and universities will be using this year.
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Finding meaning in self-control: The effect of self-control on the perception of meaning in life
(2020). Finding meaning in self-control: The effect of self-control on the perception of meaning in life. Self and Identity: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 201-218.
Clay Routledge
Self-control helps people find and maintain meaning in life because it helps create structure and order.
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Ancient voyage carried Native Americans’ DNA to remote Pacific islands
Finding that some Polynesians carry genetic ancestry from South America supports long-held theory that ancient populations met and interbred.
Christianity's most countercultural teaching: Be not afraid
Only a couple of weeks ago, our county government deigned to allow us to return to Mass at our home parish. Behind the masks, and across the enforced social distance, you could see tears of joy in the eyes of parishioners.
Bonfire of the Liberals
A defense of free speech leads to recriminations on the left.
Clay Routledge
"But now that the purge of conservatives from America’s flagship intellectual institutions is almost complete, new enemies are needed, and it’s no surprise that the left is descending into mutual back-stabbing."
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How Do the Children of Immigrant Parents Perform in School?
As of 2016, there were some 11.5 million elementary- and secondary-school students in the U.S. whose parents were born in a foreign country, such as Mexico, China, India, the Philippines, or El Salvador. They represented 22% of the total student...
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate | Harper's Magazine
The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at [email protected] Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are...
Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump: Robby Soave: 9781250169884: Amazon.com: Books
Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump [Robby Soave] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Since the 2016 election, college campuses have erupted in violent protests, demands for safe spaces
Persuasion by Yascha Mounk
The community for those who believe that a free society is worth fighting for.
Why Do Smells Trigger Memories?
Your sense of smell may be a better memory trigger than your sense of sight. Here's why a whiff of apple pie may instantly transport you home in your mind
The Coronavirus Credibility Gap
Politicians and experts sow distrust with double standards on protests and dissembling about masks.
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Clay Routledge
"If political leaders and health experts want to restore their credibility and the public’s confidence, they need to begin by acknowledging that politics rather than science has influenced important public-health decisions"
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Hong Kong Libraries Pull Books for Review Under China’s Security Law
Public libraries have removed several books by pro-democracy figures from circulation, amplifying concerns that China’s sweeping national-security law for Hong Kong will be used to restrict political discussion in the city.
Clay Routledge
"Public libraries have removed several books by pro-democracy figures from circulation, amplifying concerns that China’s sweeping national-security law for Hong Kong will be used to restrict political discussion in the city."
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Exaggerated meta-perceptions predict intergroup hostility between American political partisans
Although much current research highlights differences between political partisans, our research provides evidence that strong partisan biases in meta-perceptions are largely symmetrical for Democrats and Republicans. This suggests that biased...
A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
Higher education is often described as an investment. But it’s still unclear if it pays off in happiness.
In Los Angeles, an Economy Built on Freelancers Crumbles
Creative freelancers have been some of the hardest hit in the coronavirus-driven recession, according to economists. Performers, production crews, ride-share drivers and personal trainers were among the first to lose work and will likely be among...
Clay Routledge
"Creative freelancers—with little job protection and incomes reliant on people leaving their homes—have been some of the hardest hit in the coronavirus-driven recession, according to economists."
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r/dataisbeautiful - [OC] Blockbuster Video US store locations between 1986 and 2019
90,084 votes and 3,626 comments so far on Reddit