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UW-Madison, Univ. of Galway, NBER C.V.: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/kkaquhtv5b2og4yo6md5p34f7q7gx1ju Banner image: Free Clinic (detail), Jacob Lawrence, 1937
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23.02.2026 11:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One goalie will never again have to buy himself a drink. The other will be in therapy for the remainder of his life.
22.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Stata #treemap v1.7 is now up on #Github:
Major changes
- method(): slice or dice or squarify or mix
- orient(): change box placements when drawing
- ratio(): custom box ratios (default = Golden Ratio)
+ others options
Check it out:
github.com/asjadnaqvi/s...
Up soon on #SSC
If there's anything in life more satisfying than a successful toilet repair I have yet to experience it.
21.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Emperor's New Clothes, by Hans Christian Andersen
americanliterature.com/author/hans-...
Aging, tired, defeated
21.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From my Substack: Two regrettable rules for junior scholars (and why I’m writing them down) (post 1 of 4)
tinyurl.com/379ucn8w
The lead news item on the www.learningresources.com website is not about how they prevailed in Learning Resources v. Trump but rather about how their Mini Farmstand Sorting Set has recently won the Preschool Toy of the Year Award.
20.02.2026 20:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Someone you've never heard of… can raise their hand and say: 'I think the laws have been improperly applied.' If the guy you've never heard of is right, they win, and the government loses,” Woldenberg said. “The American system was tested and it works.”
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
"It is no accident that this power appears first."
The Chief Justice's majority opinion in Learning Resources v. Trump contains this gem.
Matthew Fiedler (Brookings) and Ben Ippolito (AEI)
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
19.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
There are two clusters of people: those who tend to like cluster analysis and those who don't.
19.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
These NIST blogs are often really interesting and informative.
One example: Why test for trace metals in human blood? Answer: This can help diagnose joint replacement failures.
www.nist.gov/blogs/taking...
NY Times, you erroneously omitted an " i " in both instances.
18.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0See page 2 for explanation of Type A meetings
www.fda.gov/media/72253/...
FDA loves me, FDA loves me not, FDA loves me, ...
18.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release...
18.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Discontinuation rates due to adverse events were 12.2% and 18.2% with retatrutide 9 mg and 12 mg, respectively, compared to 4.0% with placebo. These rates were highly correlated with baseline BMI and included discontinuations for perceived excessive weight loss."
investor.lilly.com/news-release...
By keeping the interview off CBS it's a shame that no one was able to see it.
(The current youtube view count is 2,640,663.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
17.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
JFB was not only her father's biographer but also wrote about her father's connections with W.S. Gosset ("Student").
www.amazon.com/Fisher-Scien...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
projecteuclid.org/journals/sta...
Also father of the late Joan Fisher Box, who was the wife of the late George ("All models are wrong but some are useful") Box.
www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
Operation Warp Speed → Operation Slam on the Brakes
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
"to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services"
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