Favorites February 12th 2022

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT

“The damage to a generation of children’s social development and educational attainment, and particularly to the social mobility prospects of its most marginalized members, will be irrecoverable.”

nymag.comSchool Closures Were a Catastrophe. Progressives Still Haven’t Reckoned With It.If you don’t diagnose your error, you might repeat it.

I didn't see this when it first came around, but now having read it I think it makes a strong argument.

Eli Dourado @elidourado

Proxima Centauri d is Earth-like!

nature.comEarth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest starShifts in starlight from Proxima Centauri, observed over more than 2 years, reveal its third planet.

At least 26% the mass of Earth, very cool. Although mars is sitting right here, and is 53% the mass of earth.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

That 30s flu was still way down from the 1918-1919 pandemic that was so giant it messes up the y-axis. So compared to what happened before I guess it didn’t seem so bad, but compared to post-WWII flu it was a catastrophe.

So, 1918 pandemic took a decade to really die to down. Definitely a worrying precedent, although we have vaccines this time around.

October 2021