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Another consumer was literally unable to find out, in advance, what a standard birth at a hospital costs.<\/p>\n
The law making it legal to film police, was actually authored by the legislator they arrested. The police have dropped the charges and apologized.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the refusal of many Red states to expand Medicaid for the poor has caused insurance premiums to rise.<\/p>\n
No deep issue here, I just thought it was funny.<\/p>\n
On their Facebook page, they suggested that if 15 out of 1000 people who have bariatric surgery die, that’s “actually very few.”<\/p>\n
Interesting short read on the reproducibility crisis.<\/p>\n
Interesting interactive tool from the Urban Institute showing the costs of building affordable housing, versus what renting to poor family makes. The bottom line is, there’s no way to make money building affordable housing without significant government subsidies. <\/p>\n
There’s also the idea, favored by Bernie Sanders, using a prize fund.<\/a><\/p>\n
“Do what you are told to do in each statement, nothing more, nothing less. Be careful as one wrong answer denotes failure of the test. You have ten minutes to complete the test.” I’m highly literate, and I frankly doubt I would have passed it. None of the questions are that hard, taken alone – although some seem designed to trick people into giving a wrong answer – but under pressure, it would be easy to mess up on just one. Of course, I wouldn’t have been asked to take the test.<\/p>\n
“People who are saying that a convention should never act on a complaint without performing a serious investigation, weighing evidence, and having a finding of facts culminating in a verdict in a sentence are, whether they know it or not, advocating for one of two possibilities: an endless succession of unqualified kangaroo courts or a world where conventions never act on complaints.”<\/p>\n
And an update: Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologizes to Colin Kaepernick after criticizing anthem protest.<\/a> Thanks, Duncan!<\/p>\n
Long-form political cartoon looking at the long roots of racism in America.<\/p>\n
Despite the title, the pain epidemic is about Americans in general, not just men. But it apparently explains a lot of declining male workforce participation, while the similar decline of female chronic pain sufferers working has been hidden by the general increase in female participation.<\/p>\n
Includes a fun interactive insert, which you folks who have used up this month’s allotment of WaPo articles can also view here,<\/a> letting you hear how people in different languages say animal noises. <\/p>\n
I lack the words to describe how cool I find this.<\/p>\n