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The article explores the implications of the Hunter v. United States case, questioning who truly represents the majority's interests in legal decisions affecting public policy.
The article critiques Chief Judge Pryor's handling of the Eleanor Ross judicial misconduct case, highlighting the implications of his non-order and suggesting potential reforms to address the issues raised.
Supreme Court decides 9-0 that marijuana use per se fails to support firearm prohibition
DJ Shipley is a retired Navy SEAL and former DEVGRU operator. What's life like after the Navy SEALs? After years of operating at the highest level, many veterans face a challenge they never expected: returning to normal life. When the adrenaline, purpose, and brotherhood disappear overnight, how do you find your footing again? Expect to learn what the hardest part about leaving military life behind is, why it’s so hard to turn off trained military hyper-vigilance, how DJ would end the war in ...
From GA: I am a mathematician…and some of your recent comments on MR about the role of AI in Econ research as well as the (disappearing?) role of academic papers inspired this response. (It is partially but not exclusively about academia, so I hope it is ok that I’m sending it to your GMU address. […] The post How research in math will change (from my email) appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesAI-Native FirmsMy Conversation with Dave BaszuckiDo teens regret their social medi...
In 2013 in Can the Shingles Vaccine Prevent Dementia? I wrote: A new paper provides good evidence that the shingles vaccine can prevent dementia, which strongly suggests that some forms of dementia are caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), the virus that on initial infection causes chickenpox. We now have three studies–from America, Australia and […] The post The Shingles Vaccine Reduces Dementia appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Related StoriesMontana’s SB535 and a Potential Biote...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for dark matter. But their search has…
Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of Pull in case of climate emergency to scatter light-reflecting particles to bounce sunlight out of the atmosphere and cool the planet. But it might be less like a simple brake and more like a complicated, entirely unsolved puzzle. Some…
Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot. Isolated deep beneath these rocky shields, massive detectors filled with liquid xenon aim to make the first direct detections of dark matter, the long-sought invisible substance whose gravity has sculpted…