Here ’s How We Perceive The Political Leanings Of Different Fonts
Photo: The serif font Jubilat was used on signs for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid — though a new study suggests that sans serifs are generally seen as more liberal. Credit: Brett Carlsen/Getty Images.
By Emily Reynolds
Fonts can be very distinctive indeed. Even if robbed of their original context, it can be easy to identify the fonts used on the front of a Harry Potter book, adorning a Star Wars poster, or on the side of a Coca-Cola can, to name a few examples.
But particular fonts can also leave us with other impressions: the font used to brand a beloved book, for example, has different emotional connotati...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Aesthetics Language Perception Political Source Type: blogs
Healthcare in the National Privacy Law Debate
Conclusion
Despite the importance of the healthcare industry, the HIPAA Rules, and health information to the overall debate about individual privacy, healthcare has not been a leading factor in the current national privacy legislative debate. This is unfortunate and can lead to problems for both the healthcare industry and a variety of other stakeholders interested in healthcare data and the privacy of this data. The HIPAA rules — because of their detail and our broad experience with them since their implementation — can provide some useful experience in evaluating the national debate, particularly in th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Data Health Policy The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Sharing? Privacy? Both? HIPAA Kirk Nahra Source Type: blogs
Leaders Show Distinct Body Language Depending On Whether They Gain Authority Through Prestige Or Dominance
By Emma Young
All kinds of animals use their bodies to signal a high social rank — humans included. But a growing body of research suggests that, for us at least, there are two distinct routes to becoming a leader. One entails earning respect and followers by demonstrating your knowledge and expertise, which confers prestige. An alternative strategy is to use aggression and intimidation to scare people into deference — that is, to use dominance instead.
These two ways to the top are very different. And, to get on with their leader, an inferior-status individual would have to respond to these two types of leadership di...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: leadership Social Source Type: blogs
Asinine, Backasswards Colonoscopy Insurance Rules Make Patients Decline Medically Necessary Testing
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
I’ve had several telephone calls in the last two weeks from a 40-year-old woman with abdominal pain and changed bowel habits. She obviously needs a colonoscopy, which is what I told her when I saw her.
If she needed an MRI to rule out a brain tumor I think she would accept that there would be co-pays or deductibles, because the seriousness of our concern for her symptoms would make her want the testing.
But because in the inscrutable wisdom of the Obama Affordable Care Act, it was decided that screening colonoscopies done on people with no symptoms whatsoever are a freebie, whereas colonosco...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Primary Care Colonoscopy Hans Duvefelt Health insurance Source Type: blogs
Asinine, Backasswards Colonoscopy Insurance Rules Make Patients Decline Medically Necessary Testing
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
I’ve had several telephone calls in the last two weeks from a 40-year-old woman with abdominal pain and changed bowel habits. She obviously needs a colonoscopy, which is what I told her when I saw her.
If she needed an MRI to rule out a brain tumor I think she would accept that there would be co-pays or deductibles, because the seriousness of our concern for her symptoms would make her want the testing.
But because in the inscrutable wisdom of the Obama Affordable Care Act, it was decided that screening colonoscopies done on people with no symptoms whatsoever are a freebie, whereas colonosco...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Primary Care Colonoscopy Hans Duvefelt Health insurance Source Type: blogs
Taxpayers Eat Another Solar Energy Flop
David BoazLooks like another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust. Bloomberg Newsreports, “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online.”In 2011 the $1 billion [Crescent Dunes] project was to be the biggest solar plant of its kind, and it looked like the future of renewable power.Citigroup Inc. and other financiers invested $140 million with its developer,SolarReserve Inc. Steven Chu, the U.S. Department of Energy secretary at the time, offered the company [$737 million in] government loan guarantees, and Harry Reid, then the Senate majority leader and senior senator from Nevada, cleare...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 21, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Checking up on the economy
I am continually amused by the claims of Trumpistas that the U.S. is experiencing an economic resurgence and utopia, for which of course the vulgarian in chief deserves all the credit. Joseph Stiglitz, who unlike them and me has won a Nobel Memorial Prize in economics (it ' s not a real Nobel prize, economists added it later because they wanted one too)knows otherwise.This is a fairly dense essay which it ' s difficult to summarize without quoting, but I ' ll try. Meanwhile one pull quote:Two years ago, a few rare corporate leaders were concerned about climate change, or upset at Trump ’s misogyny and bigotry. Most, howe...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 19, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Democrats' Search for a New Foreign Policy
A. Trevor Thrall andJordan CohenCato will be hosting a panel discussion on January 28,The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy: 2020 and Beyond, featuringKate Kizer from Win Without War, Loren DeJonge Schulman from the Center for a New American Security,Dan Nexon from Georgetown University,Adam Mount from the Federation of American Scientists, andMena Ayazi from the Alliance for Peacebuilding.To provide some broad perspective for the discussion, we are sharing a slightly updated version of an article wepublished in the November/December issue of the German magazine,Internationale Politik. In it we use speeches and campaign...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 16, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Jordan Cohen Source Type: blogs
Labor Law: Feds Call Off Their War on Franchising and Subcontracting
Walter OlsonThe U.S. Department of Labor has announced afinal rule (press release,fact sheet,FAQ) backing off one of the Obama administration ’s mostdamaging initiatives, its attempt to redefine a wide range of franchise, subcontract, and supplier business models as “joint employment.” The effect of that move would have been to make many companies liable for breaches of labor and employment law committed by their franchisees or contractors. The final rule is set to take effect on March 16, 2020.This is an important win for economic freedom, as well as for the legal reality that a supply or contractual relationship be...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
8 People Died in Immigration Detention in 2019, 193 Since 2004
Alex NowrastehAn important portion of President Trump ’s immigration enforcement policy is immigrant detention. Immigrants who are apprehended at the border or in the interior of the United States are detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities until they are removed from the United States. In recent months, manyreportshavesurfacedofimmigrantswhohavediedwhileindetention or shortly after being released tomedical facilities for treatment. The rate of death in ICE detention facilities is an important metric of how humane those facilities are.There are two primary pieces of data required to calculate the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
The Autobahn to Car Consumer Hell Is Paved with the Best Intentions
William YeatmanAfterbailing out two of the “Big 3” Detroit automakers, President Obama called in his markers during the summer of 2011. That’s when his administrationannounced an agreement with major car manufacturers to increase federal fuel economy standards to 54.5 miles per gallon (MPG) by 2025.At the time, fleet averages (including cars and light-duty trucks) were about 27 MPG; doubling that figure in 14 years was a tall order requiring technological breakthroughs that might or might not happen.Accordingly, the 2011 agreement included an escape hatch. The plan stipulated for a “mid-term review” process, by w...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 21, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: William Yeatman Source Type: blogs
The Post's Afghanistan Series
The Washington Post series “ The Afghanistan Papers ” charges that “ senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign. ” As someone who was both an occasional participant in and frequent critic of the Bush and Obama administrations ' Afghan policy deliberations, James Dobbins finds this charge considerably exaggerated. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - December 16, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: James Dobbins Source Type: blogs
Diagnosing the FBI Failures in the Inspector General's FISA Report
Julian SanchezJustice Department Inspector General Michael Horowtiz'slong-awaited report on "Crossfire Hurricane" —the FBI's investigation of potential links between Russian election interference and the Trump campaign—has finally been released.Like most news developments in our polarized age, the report is being spun in diametrically opposed ways by political partisans, as evidenced by the questions atWednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the report. Both of these narratives, unfortunately, get it wrong in fundamental ways.For many Democrats and other Trump critics, the main takeaway from the Horowitz Rep...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 14, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Julian Sanchez Source Type: blogs
The Trump Administration ’s Deportation Regime Is Faltering
Alex NowrastehThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released areport detailing deportations (henceforth “removals”) conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the fiscal year 2019. The DHS report divides removals into two categories based on the arresting agency: those removed from the interior of the United States and those removed from the border. Interior removals are those w ho are initially arrested by ICE and then subsequently removed.Border removals are individuals initially apprehended by a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer while they attempted to illegally enter the Un...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 12, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Vox Misses Mark on Institutional Primacy in Contemporary Federal Policymaking
William YeatmanYesterday,Vox's Ian Millhiser postedan interesting article on how President Trump's judicial nominees are changing the federal courts.I've no argument with Millhiser's underlying thesis: A lot of (great) judges have been appointed during Trump's administration.The causes for this are obvious. There ’s a Republican in the White House, and Republicans control the Senate, so the appointment process is well-oiled. In addition, past Senates (under both parties) changed the body’s rules so as to ease the confirmation of a president’s nominees.Where I take issue with Millhiser is with his understanding of the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 10, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: William Yeatman Source Type: blogs
