An interesting study, the data of which, I have not verified.
If the poverty rates for each educational bin remained the same, then the upward redistribution of adults from the lower bins to the higher bins would have led to lower overall poverty. But that’s not what happened.
Later:
The big things that cause poverty for adults over the age of 25 in a low-welfare capitalist society—old-age, disability, unemployment, having children—do not go away just because you have a better degree.
From this analysis on the Candler Blog is an interesting way to think about writing.
Should I tweet less? Probably, but I’m already doing that to little effect. So what’s the solution?
I’d go one question deeper. So what’s the problem we’re trying to solve?
I already own most of these and they are really good if you use Sublime Text a lot. 60% off is a good deal and I’m not sure how long it will last.
Remember when people were talking about whether video games were art? I think that conversation is long over. This is some stunning work. Here’s just one example where the world of Princess Mononoke is recreated in Minecraft:
From David Talbot at Salon:
To Morales, Kennedy was “that no good son of a bitch motherfucker” who was responsible for the deaths of the men he had trained for the Bay of Pigs mission. “We took care of that son of a bitch, didn’t we?” Morales told his attorney, Robert Walton, in 1973, after an evening of drinking loosened the CIA hit man’s tongue. It was one more confession that the media ignored, even after it was reported by one of their own, Gaeton Fonzi, a Philadelphia investigative journalist who, after going to work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations, unearthed some of the most important information related to the Kennedy case.
I just love seeing this stuff. Here’s one of my favorite artists showing that the tools don’t make the artist. It’s impressive what someone with talent can do. I expect to see a lot more cool stuff created with the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro.
From the Economist:
PageFair, was hacked. If you visited economist.com at any time between Oct. 31, 23:52 GMT and 01:15 GMT, Nov. 1, using Windows OS and you do not have trusted anti-virus software installed; it is possible that malware, disguised as an Adobe update, was downloaded onto your PC.
What’s PageFair? Oh, just the latest countermeasure to ad-blocking software. Good show Economist. Looking forward to your next article on internet snooping.
The latest Nerds on Draft is out. We go against our better judgement and drink a pumpkin beer and talk about photography.
Coincidentally the new Mac Power Users cover photography from the professional angle but come to a lot of similar conclusions. Take a listen to both if you like to take pictures with an iPhone.
It also looks like the latest Overcast update now works with Squarespace podcasts like Nerds on Draft.
Agate looks like a really great data analysis library for Python. It’s readable and powerful. Made by a journalist for journalists.
As journalists, we not only need to solve these problems for practical reporting purposes, but also for philosophical ones. How can we assert that our numbers are correct if we performed a series of manual processes in a spreadsheet exactly once? Do it that way and the only record of how it was done is the one in your head.
The University of California has made a significant policy change regarding its research:
Building on UC’s previously-adopted Academic Senate open access (OA) policies, this new policy enables the university system and associated national labs to provide unprecedented access to scholarly research authored by clinical faculty, lecturers, staff researchers, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and librarians – just to name a few. Comprising ten campuses, five medical centers, three national laboratories and nearly 200,000 employees, the UC system is responsible for over 2% of the world’s total research publications.
