WIRED: The Race to Pass Obama’s Last Law and Save Tech in DC

The Race to Pass Obama's Last Law and Save Tech in DC
WIRED

The Talent Act and the Presidential Innovation Fellowship become President Obama's final love letter to technology and technologists. Read the full story

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Rouille: An Essential Topping for Bread | Fresh Tastes | PBS Food

http://www.pbs.org/food/fresh-tastes/rouille-essential-topping-next-slice-bread/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=pbsfood_freshtastes


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Not Praying in Auschwitz | The Bully Pulpit

https://jrbenjamin.com/2015/04/16/prayer-in-auschwitz/


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Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump | FiveThirtyEight

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/


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Is Trump’s Refugee/Immigration Executive Order a ‘Muslim Ban’? Unprecedented? Legal? Useful? Here Are Your Answers. | Daily Wire

http://www.dailywire.com/news/12918/trumps-refugeeimmigration-executive-order-muslim-ben-shapiro?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=twitterbenshapiro


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Good summary of current Trump situation

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/514868/

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New House Bills Aim to Sell Off Public Lands and to "Get Rid of the BLM and US Forest Service Police” - Men's Journal

http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/articles/new-house-bills-aim-to-sell-off-public-lands-and-to-get-rid-of-the-blm-and-us-forest-service-police-w463159


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DNA Methylation in Mammals

http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/6/5/a019133.full


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What you need to know about Trump's travel ban | US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/28/trump-immigration-ban-syria-muslims-reaction-lawsuits


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Torture doesn’t work … except when it does – The XX Committee

https://20committee.com/2012/12/11/torture-doesnt-work-except-when-it-does/amp/


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Trump Finds The Weak Spot In Obama’s Protections For Scientists | FiveThirtyEight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-finds-the-weak-spot-in-obamas-protections-for-scientists/?ex_cid=story-twitter


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www.washingtonpost.com: Powerful NSA hacking tools have been revealed online - The Washington Post

Powerful NSA hacking tools have been revealed online - The Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com

Read the full story

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The global gag rule is unconstitutional, and John Roberts can explain why.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/01/27/the_global_gag_rule_is_unconstitutional_and_john_roberts_can_explain_why.html


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The Verge: How an international treaty signed 50 years ago became the backbone for space law

How an international treaty signed 50 years ago became the backbone for space law
The Verge

Happy anniversary, Outer Space Treaty Read the full story

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FBI Releases Preliminary Semiannual Crime Statistics for 2016 — FBI

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-preliminary-semiannual-crime-statistics-for-2016


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Exit Polls 2016

http://www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls/national/president


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Daniel Moynihan and President-elect Nixon: How charity didn't begin at home

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/moynihan-income.html


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WIRED: Artificial Intelligence Is About to Conquer Poker, But Not Without Human Help

Artificial Intelligence Is About to Conquer Poker, But Not Without Human Help
WIRED

No machine has ever beaten the top players at no-limit Texas Hold 'Em. But this time it's different. Read the full story

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Curated Collections | Curriki

http://www.curriki.org/featured-curriki-curated-collections/


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What The "Rogue" EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/25/what-the-rogue-epa-nps-and-nasa-twitter-accounts-teach-us-about-the-future-of-social/amp/


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Moving? How to Update Your Voter Registration Information in Every State - Updater Blog

http://www.updater.com/moving-tips/moving-how-to-update-your-voter-registration-information-in-every-state


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Anne Applebaum Interview About President Donald Trump - SPIEGEL ONLINE

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/anne-applebaum-interview-about-president-donald-trump-a-1130988-amp.html

Applebaum: We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections -- or to become candidates themselves -- they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.

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Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658

As the 19th-century Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain put it, "The great master fallacy of the human mind is believing too much." False beliefs, once established, are incredibly tricky to correct. A leader who lies constantly creates a new landscape, and a citizenry whose sense of reality may end up swaying far more than they think possible. It's little wonder that authoritarian regimes with sophisticated propaganda operations can warp the worldviews of entire populations

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Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658


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Philip Roth E-Mails on Trump - The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/philip-roth-e-mails-on-trump

"I was born in 1933," he continued, "the year that F.D.R. was inaugurated. He was President until I was twelve years old. I've been a Roosevelt Democrat ever since. I found much that was alarming about being a citizen during the tenures of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. But, whatever I may have seen as their limitations of character or intellect, neither was anything like as humanly impoverished as Trump is: ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English."

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This Is Your Brain on Poverty: Breaking Down Barriers

https://psmag.com/amp/p/17158fed3a34?gi=13605d6b4d65


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Trump in

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/trump_s_inaugural_week_of_caring_about_nothing_but_himself.html


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How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next | William Davies | Politics | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy


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Welcome to the age of anger | Pankaj Mishra | Politics | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/08/welcome-age-anger-brexit-trump

Max Weber, as he observed Germany's hectic industrialisation, presciently speculated that individuals, unmoored by socioeconomic turmoil and alienated by bureaucratic rationalisation, could become vulnerable to a despotic leader.

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Million Dollar Highway

http://www.dangerousroads.org/north-america/usa/635-million-dollar-highway-usa.html


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us government debt over time - Google Search

https://www.google.com/search?q=us+government+debt+over+time&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=AafEF-qCcsBc8M%3A


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The Real Story Of 2016 | FiveThirtyEight

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-real-story-of-2016/


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Communications of the ACM: Hans Berliner, Master Chess Player and Programmer, Dies at 87

Hans Berliner, Master Chess Player and Programmer, Dies at 87
Communications of the ACM

A former world champion of correspondence chess who later helped develop game-playing computers, Hans Berliner died on Friday in Riviera Beach, FL, at the age of 87. Read the full story

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The Blank Slateism of the Right | Quillette

http://quillette.com/2017/01/12/the-blank-slateism-of-the-right/


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Robert Pinsky’s new poetry collection is considered and timely - LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-pinksy-20161006-snap-story.html

A politician makes hay in Oklahoma

By saying he doubts Darwin and climate change.
A kayak to Nyack. Home, home on the range.

Elect you, sigh for you, die for you. Our systems fed
By long-dead life that rotted to our sweet crude—

Warmth, movement, light and all our musical racket.
Lipstick traces. How we do. An airplane ticket.

High volume, gasoline roar, an amplified voice
Keening its meaning — will we die of all this?

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VentureBeat: In a ‘man vs. machine’ poker contest, the machine is winning

In a 'man vs. machine' poker contest, the machine is winning
VentureBeat

A very interesting contest is taking place at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh where four of the world's best poker players are playing against a machine. And as of now anyway, the machine is winning. In this case the machine, named Libratus, is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed at nearby Carnegie Mellon University, a hot bed of AI and robotics research. The tournament kicked off Wednesday with odds makers favoring the human players 4 or 5 to 1 over Libratus. "But we ended Read the full story

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How Repealing Portions of the Affordable Care Act Would Affect Health Insurance Coverage and Premiums | Congressional Budget Office

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52371


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A young rescuer shares what she has learned about the ugly side of animal rescue | Animal Advocates of Alabama

http://www.alanimals.com/wp/a-young-rescuer-shares-what-she-has-learned-about-the-ugly-side-of-animal-rescue/


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The Scary Truth About Childbirth | Mother Jones

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/childbirth-injuries-prolapse-cesarean-section-natural-childbirth


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Sorry, liberals: Donald Trump really means what he says — and plans to silence and intimidate dissenters - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/14/sorry-liberals-donald-trump-really-means-what-he-says-and-plans-to-silence-and-intimidate-dissenters/


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The Unquotable Trump

https://unquotabletrump.tumblr.com/


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I’m a former health insurance CEO and this is what Obamacare repeal will do - MarketWatch

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/im-a-former-health-insurance-ceo-and-this-is-what-obamacare-repeal-will-do-2017-01-02


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Musicians Recall ‘The First Time I Heard Bob Dylan’ |

http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2017/01/12/first-time-i-heard-bob-dylan-musicians-reflect-judy-collins-david-crosby-roger-mcguinn-john-mayall/#sthash.itbCBJ8K.qJEyv4ge.dpbs


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Carbon Budget

http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/


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Former MI6 agent Christopher Steele's frustration as FBI sat on Donald Trump Russia file for months

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-russia-dossier-file-investigation-hacking-christopher-steele-mi6-a7526901.html?amp


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Rfk vaccine

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2017/01/the_thimerosal_episode_explains_the_danger_of_rfk_jr.html


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Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science – Association for Psychological Science

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/sexual_orientation.html#.WHbsKctHbxw


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How to contact the Guardian securely | Help | The Guardian

https://amp.theguardian.com/help/2016/sep/19/how-to-contact-the-guardian-securely


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Ecological Footprint

http://www.sustainablescale.org/ConceptualFramework/UnderstandingScale/MeasuringScale/EcologicalFootprint.aspx


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Avalon Project - Washington's Farewell Address 1796

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp


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True lies

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/jeff_sessions_confirmation_hearing_had_one_moment_that_revealed_why_so_many.html


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Irish writers give their top book picks from 2016 - Independent.ie

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/irish-writers-give-their-top-book-picks-from-2016-35315059.html


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There's A Pony Born Every Minute | Popehat

https://www.popehat.com/2017/01/06/theres-a-pony-born-every-minute/


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Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds | US news | The Guardian

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/texas-maternal-mortality-rate-health-clinics-funding


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What scientists know -- and don't know -- about sexual orientation | EurekAlert! Science News

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/afps-wsk042516.php


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Wilsons' legacy lives on at Second Chance | Local | azdailysun.com

http://azdailysun.com/news/local/community/article_912223bd-f6c7-52c8-a3bb-c2b504ba43f3.html


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Long term vegetarian diet changes human DNA raising risk of cancer and heart disease

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/29/long-term-vegetarian-diet-changes-human-dna-raising-risk-of-canc/amp/


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Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States | Cardiology | JAMA | The JAMA Network

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2513561

First, higher income was associated with greater longevity throughout the income distribution. The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years

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New US space mining law to spark interplanetary gold rush

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-space-law-interplanetary-gold.html


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Mexico's former president says his country won’t pay for Donald Trump’s ‘racist monument’ border wall | The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/mexico-former-president-vicente-fox-quesada-pay-donald-trump-border-wall-racist-monument-illegal-a7512946.html


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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/writings/CompAdv3.pdf





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Why Do Companies Care About Their Stock Prices? | Investopedia

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/03/020703.asp

Stock market funds us. It provides scrutiny on companies.

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Nasa budgets: US spending on space travel since 1958 | Society | theguardian.com

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-budgets-us-spending-space-travel


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Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States | Cardiology | JAMA | The JAMA Network

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2513561


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A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity — ScienceDirect

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953616303689?via%3Dihub


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Robin Williams

http://www.neurology.org/content/87/13/1308.full.pdf

Once the coroner's report was reviewed, a doctor was able to point out to me that there was a high concentration of Lewy bodies within the amygdala. This likely caused the acute paranoia and out-of-character emotional re- sponses he was having. How I wish he could have known why he was struggling, that it was not a weak- ness in his heart, spirit, or character. 

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Stanford Magazine - Article. Human brain size 4500

https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=38306


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Popehat unmasked : For a good cause - Real Lawyers Have Blogs

http://kevin.lexblog.com/2011/12/30/popehat-unmasked-for-a-good-cause/


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Altmetric – Top 100 Articles – 2016

https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2016/


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The 10 most important books of 2016 - LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-10-books-20161208-story.html


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This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson. | The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/this-political-theorist-predicted-the-rise-of-trumpism-his-name-was-hunter-s-thompson/


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Why Parenting May Not Matter and Why Most Social Science Research is Probably Wrong | Quillette

http://quillette.com/2015/12/01/why-parenting-may-not-matter-and-why-most-social-science-research-is-probably-wrong/

Based on the results of classical twin studies, it just doesn't appear that parenting—whether mom and dad are permissive or not, read to their kid or not, or whatever else—impacts development as much as we might like to think. Regarding the cross-validation that I mentioned, studies examining identical twins separated at birth and reared apart have repeatedly revealed (in shocking ways) the same thing: these individuals are remarkably similar when in fact they should be utterly different (they have completely different environments, but the same genes).3 Alternatively, non-biologically related adopted children (who have no genetic commonalities) raised together are utterly dissimilar to each other—despite in many cases having decades of exposure to the same parents and home environments.3
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2017 Annual Forecast | Stratfor

https://www.stratfor.com/forecast/2017-annual-forecast?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Keywee&utm_campaign=Article&kwp_0=302023


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Top 10 Spy Sleuths in the Literary Game | The Lineup

http://www.the-line-up.com/top-spy-sleuths/


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Putin’s Real Long Game - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/putins-real-long-game-214589


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Edge.org

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27169

The lesson is that even though I produce both goods less efficiently than you, we are still both made better off when we specialize in the good for which we have a comparative advantage and then trade. This is an argument for a role for governments in facilitating, rather than inhibiting, specialization and trade.

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Edge.org

https://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known
This leads to a radical idea that I really like: If consciousness is the way that information feels when it's processed in certain ways, then it must be substrate-independent; it's only the structure of the information processing that matters, not the structure of the matter doing the information processing. In other words, consciousness is substrate-independent twice over!

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Pasta with Avocado Sauce and Garlic Shrimp | My Colombian Recipes

http://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/pasta-with-avocado-sauce-and-garlic-shrimp


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Linguistic humor

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/daffynitions.html


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Edge.org

https://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known

Consider, for example, attitudes toward income redistribution. If these were based on rational self-interest, anyone earning less than mean income should favor redistribution since they stand to benefit from that policy. Since income inequality skews income distribution rightward, with increasing inequality a larger share of the population has income below the mean and so support for redistribution should rise. Yet, empirically this is not the case. One reason is antisocial preferences. As Ilyana Kuziemko and colleagues found, people exhibit "last place aversion" both in the lab and in everyday social contexts. That is, individuals near the bottom of the income distribution oppose redistribution because they fear it might result in people below them either catching up to them or overtaking them, leaving them at the bottom of the status hierarchy.
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Edge.org

https://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known


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