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Evan Roberts
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Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places .. more

Economics 23%
Public Health 15%

1924 Minneapolis density zones as an instrumental variable for rapid response networks

I haven't seen any changes to zoning because of this 😉

Less of a problem for e.g studies of birth to age 30, for which we have more studies in more places across more birth cohorts

Neologism is good! Indeed, there is a challenge in life course studies that the subject is young enough that we don't have a lot of cohorts that have been studied cradle to grave, and so we don't know how well studies generalize across time and context.

Unfortunately studying old people means waiting a long time. Significant cognitive decline on a population scale is not super evident until people's 70s, so Great Depression & just post-WWII cohorts are first ones we can really study this in at scale.

Good reminder that a word I use several times a week in a professional context is indeed specialist jargon 😀

Why did a North American fire department not object to this?!

Bad news for all those suckers out there who chose to have siblings! You're making each other's cognitive decline go faster in later life.
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

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A pyramid scheme built on a Lin Manuel Miranda chat bot

An MLM LMM LLM

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Research ethics ? (please send resources!): I'm writing about publicly available court cases from 1970s describing gender-based violence (SA, DV). Victims' names are listed. Citations for the cases is "In Re [victim name]..." Ok to name victims in text? Feels violating, but maybe I'm overthinking.

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Book is about veteran suicide, but I’ve also read lots of obituaries of death by other causes where (from death certificates) I know the cause.

i also have this question in my head. from my book research I can say 1) this phrase is old and international, and 2) illness is sometimes true, sometimes euphemistic for suicide

If China takes over Canada, and Minnesota becomes South Manitoba in the War of Stupid Secession, then by the transitive principle NZ dairy products will be available duty free in Minnesota, and I won’t have to eat this inferior midwestern grain fed stuff.

Most people are focused on the out of touch hilarity of “Canada will eliminate the Stanley Cup”, but a close second is any notion that the US is committed to free trade in dairy products.

Post a banger that isn't in English
youtu.be/tq2K8ak47nM?...

Minnesota, where the same place can look very different in different seasons [as opposed to my hometown where you can look at a photo and not know what time of year it was]

Is this the same place?
#InfillFriday These two 3 story duplexes going up in Minneapolis are mildly interesting. Front duplex is popping up one story on a 1900 house. Back lot building is new. On a 10k lot this is pretty modest density. Note they're under mature tree line
#InfillFriday inspired by @ebwhamilton.bsky.social

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Since we're crayoning:
Here's a challenge.
Pick a metro area.
You can build 10 miles subway, 20 miles elevated rail, or 40 miles at grade (street, freeway, rail ROW) rail (or any suitably weighted combination.)
Where do you put it for max ridership?
How do you adjust the bus network to work with it?
Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found.
www.nber.org/papers/w34791

Being unfair to the 95 final. Outcome was horrible for NZ, but it was a gripping game, and seeing Mandela be part of the South African celebrations was probably good for SA and the world.

This is the 1995 Rugby World Cup final of Superbowls [so far]
Mercury, Messenger of the Gods, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th c, 📸 by @PhilEllsworth1

Niche intersection of interests.
Is that the first time Bayes theorem has been on a Superbowl commercial?

Is that the first time Bayes theorem has been on a Superbowl commercial?

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Having just spent a week in latam I can proclaim with confidence

The IAD mobile lounges are the only high-platform BRT system in the world that makes any sense

Yeah. Saved feels different from Slow Train Coming and Shot of Love. Never have quite grasped the trajectory across those three albums.

Wrote some good senior year papers to Slow Train Coming and Blood on the Tracks.

Have you thought about it from the cats perspective though? 🐈‍⬛

If I recorded my foam rolling time it would often be "With Pet" because she's fascinated when humans get down to her level and do weird cat- like stretches.