Favorites March 31st 2022

Conor Sen @conorsen

Shanghai-Los Angeles ocean freight rates down again for the 5th consecutive week, lowest level since last June. Starting to see meaningful progress here:

There were previous predictions that things were getting better based on the length of queues, but there are inherent problems in measuring it that way, the falling cost is much clearer evidence.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

LOL, Chinese officials are getting high on their own supply here.

Shashank Joshi @shashj

"Chinese officials boast to ambassadors in Beijing that they see the eu dividing between old and newer members. Those Chinese also predict that transatlantic unity between Europe and America will crumble and that sanctions will fail to break Russia’s will" https://t.co/XesDutcxID

The key to the propoganda game is to not believe your own propoganda.

JR Thompson @thompson_jr3

Wow! Parental divorce has a larger impact on your students than a parental death. I never would have thought this. Both are so difficult.

🇺🇦 Nicholas H Wolfinger @NickWolfinger

A new study by @TolsmaJochem & colleagues in @DemographicRes uses data from 17 countries to show that parental divorce, & to a lessor extend parental death, reduce offspring educational attainment. 1/2 https://t.co/h6Vpqiwa4x https://t.co/rnTMnnnpLd

I'm somewhat surprised that the monetary impact of losing a household breadwinner is less impactful than the emotional impact of a drawn-out fight. Although they note that impact of a death in the family varies based on family income and level of societal support.

Nathan Ruser @Nrg8000

Putin's War - The Daily Brief - March 31 5 weeks ago, Russia invaded Ukraine. After some initial gains, their progress rapidly slowed. Now, every day for the past week, Ukraine has retaken more territory than it's lost. See this thread for a series of maps and downloadable data.

Here's an animated version of the territory retaken to see the movement.

Jeremy Conrad @nomadicnerd

This is the Cyberpunk future we were promised https://t.co/tyLzWC0uLm

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Information technology made modern war really weird. And the transformation is nowhere near complete yet. https://t.co/1QfJB1QFbH

The article covers multiple angles, but I just can't get over the extremely detailed on-the-ground accounts we're getting about what's happening in real time.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This seems good.

codagenix.comCodagenix Intranasal COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Potent Cellular Immune Response Against Conserved Viral Proteins, Indicating Potential for Immu…Novel intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, CoviLivTM, induced strong cellular immune response in healthy adults against many conserved proteins in known variants of SARS-CoV-2, in particular, a peptide pool >99% Omicron BA.2. Spike protein focused vaccines have shown lower protection against viral mutants.1…

If I recall correctly, nasal vaccines have an advantage in that they're going straight to the site of potential infection. And the article says they're testing it as a booster on top of the previous vaccines, so that's cool. Hopefully the side-effects aren't too bad.

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