The Post-Partisan Emporium

“I Don’t Know How You Sleep at Night” A nightmarish true story of how a researcher who could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives mysteriously decided not to. Joyce Kamen “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Answers to this question have changed the course of history. During World War II, Oskar Schindler’s answer was to bribe Nazi officials with liquor and other luxury items to save his Jewish factory workers from deportation to Nazi work camps. He saved about 1,100 people—and depleted his entire fortune to do so. In the mid-twentieth century, agriculturist Norman Borlaug responded by saving billions of people from starvation through his development of a high-yield, disease-resistant wheat. He shared his discovery with Mexico, Pakistan, India, and throughout Asia and Africa—doubling food production and decreasing the rates of starvation. Harriet Tubman’s answer is legendary. Tubman was an escaped slave who retur...

The First Tyson/Fareed Study Text Mathew Crawford Understand that I say "first" because I don't know that I won't just volunteer my time to sort through the rest of their data when there is a good moment. However, it feels like the world is moving too fast for now, and I can work nearly every waking hour and not come close to keeping up with the pace. Brian's and George's story is out , and the decision was made in December to include in the book the study I worked up and wrote for them primarily around April-May of 2021. I'm also going to post it here at Rounding the Earth so that everyone who wants to read it can do so freely. Science should not be gated. Treat this as a preprint, which is to say that changes can be made where commenters convince us to make changes. We may soon upload it to a preprint server, though publication is less the point than presentation for the public. Low Rates of Hospitalization and Death in 4,376 COVID-19 Patients Given Earl...

REDISCOVER OUR ROLE IN NATURE Dan Dagget   Our efforts to keep our home planet livable by means of the social activist movement we call “environmentalism” suffers from a significant, disabling flaw. That flaw is a mis-understanding (or mis-interpretation) of Nature — the very thing environmentalism is supposedly all about.   This “mis” understanding, which can be confirmed by  e vidence ,  has been created by what we have adopted as our standard definition of Nature — “All the ​animals and ​plants in the ​world and all the ​features, ​forces, and processes that ​exist or ​happen ​independently of ​people.” (Source the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary).] One of the problems caused by defining nature as “everything but us” is that doing so serves as a sort of blinder that impedes our ability to look into our past in a way that enables us to re-realize the relationship to Nature we evolved to fulfill and for a very long time did f...