On this day:
1541
After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1759
Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years’ War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1814
In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore, Maryland.
1847
Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1848
Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3 ft-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.
1862
American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee’s battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1922
The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1942
World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Imperial Japanese Army with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1987
Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
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Coming to firm grip with fantasy: The 193-member world body approved a nonbinding resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration,” which sets out a phased plan to end the nearly 80-year conflict. The vote was 142-10 with 12 abstentions.
Hours before the vote, Netanyahu said, “There will be no Palestinian state.”
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Freedom is a condition of man, but it is chaotic without discipline, which is taught.
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Psychotics do not bond. There is never an uprising in a madhouse. That said, there was a lot of very serious mad behavior in the 60s and 70s by people who felt they were members of 'revolutionary' groups. The ill-fated Symbionese Liberation Army (which kidnapped Patty Hearst) was led by a genius but manned by psychos. The always intense SDS were less crazy but more vicious. One of Manson's killers was a schizophrenic.
Disordered groups provide a more comfortable environment for whackos. They coexist rather than join.
Curiously, so many of these killers are so shallow and bland. Jackie Kennedy was discouraged that her husband's killer was such a cipher.
Freedom allows the stupid and inept great leverage. And militarized counter-culture movements can look pretty nuts but allow a shetering , shared structure.
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Biden pardoned over 4200 people.
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This Kirk assassination displays some weird behavior, a mix of planning and whimsy.
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Satstats
The dollar has slumped 7% on a trade-weighted basis since January, and had its worst start to a year since 1973.
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India has around 16 judges per million people, compared to over 150 for the US.
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For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world.
The share of economics papers that are about or use AI increased 10 times to 5% in 5 years, and the growth is essentially vertical.
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We measure reading for pleasure and reading with children from 2003 to 2023, using a nationally representative sample from the American Time Use Survey (n = 236,270). We found marked declines in the proportion of individuals reading for pleasure daily in the US, with decreases of 3% per year (prevalence ratio = 0.97, 95% confidence interval = 0.97, 0.98, p < 0.001). There were disparities across population groups, with widening gaps for those of Black (vs. White) race, with lower education levels and less annual income.--a paper
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A new Richmond Fed study, “Five Decades of Decline: U.S. Construction Sector Productivity,” finds labor productivity in construction has fallen more than 30 percent since 1970. Over the same half-century, overall US productivity doubled.
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California is the leader in manufacturing, agriculture, new business starts, tech and VC investments, Fortune 500 companies, and the country's top public higher education system.*
In NYC, there are 285 charter schools, with a total of about 150,000 students, about 90 percent of whom are either black or Latino.
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The US currently subsidizes the fossil-fuel industry to the tune of nearly $31bn per year, according to a new analysis.
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There is $1.3 billion worth of bitcoin on Tesla’s balance sheet,
Satstats
The dollar has slumped 7% on a trade-weighted basis since January, and had its worst start to a year since 1973.
*
India has around 16 judges per million people, compared to over 150 for the US.
*
For all the talk of a general fall in births, the drop is overwhelmingly driven by people on the left having fewer kids. By ceding the topic of family and children to the right, progressives risk ushering in a more conservative world.
*
The share of economics papers that are about or use AI increased 10 times to 5% in 5 years, and the growth is essentially vertical.
*
We measure reading for pleasure and reading with children from 2003 to 2023, using a nationally representative sample from the American Time Use Survey (n = 236,270). We found marked declines in the proportion of individuals reading for pleasure daily in the US, with decreases of 3% per year (prevalence ratio = 0.97, 95% confidence interval = 0.97, 0.98, p < 0.001). There were disparities across population groups, with widening gaps for those of Black (vs. White) race, with lower education levels and less annual income.--a paper
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A new Richmond Fed study, “Five Decades of Decline: U.S. Construction Sector Productivity,” finds labor productivity in construction has fallen more than 30 percent since 1970. Over the same half-century, overall US productivity doubled.
*
California is the leader in manufacturing, agriculture, new business starts, tech and VC investments, Fortune 500 companies, and the country's top public higher education system.*
In NYC, there are 285 charter schools, with a total of about 150,000 students, about 90 percent of whom are either black or Latino.
*
The US currently subsidizes the fossil-fuel industry to the tune of nearly $31bn per year, according to a new analysis.
*
There is $1.3 billion worth of bitcoin on Tesla’s balance sheet,
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