My article, State Climate Superfunds, has been years in the making, and I'm so thrilled it is now published with Columbia Law Review:
columbialawreview.org/content/stat...
Introduction On a summer day in July 2023, the skies over Vermont turned apocalyptic. A massive thunderstorm dumped two months of rainfall over the state in about twenty four hours, leading to flash f...
In my PhD program we covered the history of the humanities (the studia humanitatis) and not for nothing was Montaigne central in that part of the curriculum. He is in many ways *the* patron saint of the humanities.
cc @bachynski.bsky.social
Satisfying to help set the record on work requirements straight with @adrianna.bsky.social
"Given the research evidence and policy details, we conclude that, in the real world, Medicaid work requirements are much more likely to worsen poverty than to reduce it."
Since cityscapes are one of my favorite sub-genres of Dutch Golden Age art, and I love Amsterdam in particular, you know that Saenredam is very close to my heart.
It's not a great movie, but Al Pacino makes an absolute meal of it in The Devil's Advocate
I love the USPS but come on y'all
Tracking Info:
6/4: Package scanned at origin
Delivery expected 6/8 by 20:00
6/8, 22:00: Nothing
6/9: Package scanned at distribution facility in origin state (~300 miles away)
Important for the so-called Healthy Immigrant Paradox (that isn't much of a paradox at all) #EpiSky
I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)
How did #KGB detect spies?
My new article based on the secret internal correspondence between the Higher School of #KGB in Moscow and the Lithuanian #KGB HQ in Vilnius.
The link: tinyurl.com/yc63sp8b
Secret internal correspondence reveals what indicators KGB used to detect foreign spies
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Download The Missing Link for Firefox. Find the case the article didn't link. Claude identifies the U.S. court case discussed on the page and links you straight to it on CourtListener. Bring your own ...
After a little break from writing, my brand new article about the discomforts and embodied experience of travelling by carriage in the 18th century is now available open access on the Social History of Medicine website: @uniofexeternews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...
Rebecca Fordon
Filip Kovacevic
Alun Withey
In 1657 Pieter Saenredam uses his old drawing of the Amsterdam Town Hall, which had burned down 5 yrs earlier, to make this beautiful painting of that vanished monument. He was born OTD in 1597.
New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey.
Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Alt: Robert Downey Jr. Asks 'What Are We Doing Here?!'
