Got a prize for pedagogical/teaching efforts over recent years. Next I would like to win a price for contentment.

Wonderful documentary about the intentional community Tamera, where free love philosophy has been successfully practiced for 50 years. Streaming this weekend. thevillageoflovers.com

NYT rightly complains about lack of candor at the CDC. Echoes my own (and other's) complaints about the FDA's communication on vaping. Exaggerating risk to manipulate behavior is a short-term strategy that will cost you credibility.

Utmärkt överblick över systematiska former av överdiagnosticering.

Neat! bsky.app/profile/jowo...

Nu har jag postat ett ganska ambitiöst blogginlägg om hur de ej "självförsörjande" faktiskt försörjer sig. Kommentera gärna! lindellch.quarto.pub/statistik-oc...

1. Humans are the source of all value. 2. Nature exists only for our use. 3. Our primary purpose is to produce and consume. Success is based on material wealth. 4. Production and consumption must rise endlessly because we have a right to an ever increasing material level of living.

Charles Derber writes in the introduction to "in The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life" from 2000 that he has heard "about a faculty member who had created a web site with a counter on it ... so that he could check each day the number of people who had hit on his site."

Sam is always worth hearing, but the moderate utilitarianism he often applies to global issues goes out the window here. He sees no reason for Israeli restraint in Gaza because "it is Hamas fault". As if Hamas' evil deeds and intentions undermines Israel's moral responsibility for it's own actions.

Ongoing conference on research communication at Humlab, Umeå University, touches on climate activism, global injustice, AGI, conspiracy theories, and more. Stirs the old researcher conscience question - is doing research too long-term a contribution on this ailing planet?

www.umu.se/en/humlab/ad...