For another entry in the america-is-a-weird-outlier category: Even if we jailed…

For another entry in the america-is-a-weird-outlier category: Even if we jailed only murderers and rapists, we'd still have more prisoners per capita than Western Eurpoe.

https://twitter.com/HoustonEuler/status/869141389124218880

Elan on Twitter
“If America only jailed murderers and rapists (~350k people), it’d still have more prisoners per capita (110 per 100,000) than Western Europe”

We live in the boondocks



Celestial boondocks: Study supports the idea that we live in a void
An undergraduate’s work confirms we live in a hole in the cosmos, and sheds light on how we measure the rate at which the universe is expanding.

This a long article about how the interaction of human beings and medical information…

This a long article about how the interaction of human beings and medical information technology systems led to a patient getting a dose of antibiotic 38x what he should have.

Personally, I would have preferred to read a straight post-mortem of the incident instead of this personal-interest version, but it's a good article nonetheless.

Too long for me to pull any quotes from.

As a software developer one of the main things that I took away from the article is that designing user interfaces is hard. It's been my experience that many people not in the field have a hard time understanding just how hard it is to design a user interface…which leads to the user interface development and design stages of a project being under-resourced.

How Technology Led a Hospital To Give a Patient 38 Times His Dosage
When Pablo Garcia was admitted, he felt fine. Then the hospital made him very sick. Blame high-tech medicine.

Scott Alexander:

“Sex can bring people together. It can cement relationships between people and families. It can pulse with celestial fire, it can shatter inner worlds, it can inspire transcendent art, it can remake souls. Of course moderns took one look at all of that and thought: you know what the only acceptable purpose of sex is? Making a smaller copy of myself.



Those Modern Pathologies
[Related to: The Fidget Spinner Is The Perfect Toy For The Trump Presidency, On The Calculus Of Love: Partnership Under Neoliberalism] That modern pathology, the Pyramid of Cheops The final triumph…

What kind of secrets do people keep?

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