The One Policy Proven to Help the U.S. Semiconductor Industry (and Hamstring China) Is the One Nobody ’s Mentioning
Scott LincicomeA few weeks ago, I noted that Congress had just earmarked billions of taxpayer dollars for American semiconductor manufacturers to counter the alleged (andthus far empty) national security threat posed by heavily ‐subsidized Chinese competitors. The U.S. subsidies, as you can imagine, have been cheered by bothconservative fans of industrial policy and the semiconductor industry, which just released a new report on how “government incentives” will (obviously) help (historically healthy and productive) U.S. semiconductor companies somehow “turn the tide” against China. A recentwriteup in The ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Even When You ’re A Member Of An Elite Group, It Can Be Demoralising To Rank Lower Than Your Peers
In this study, some participants in the huge-fish-tiny-pond condition were told they had done better than 35% of all American test-takers, while some in the tiny-fish-huge-pond condition were told they had done better than 65% of Americans. This meant that participants in the huge-fish-tiny-pond group were 30 percentile points lower than those in the tiny-fish-huge-pond group. And yet, the effect still occurred (albeit at a smaller scale): they rated their abilities as higher than those in the latter group.
Finally, the researchers found evidence that this effect is driven by people focussing on their own rank within ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Educational Social The self Source Type: blogs
The “China Shock” that Helped U.S. Higher Education
Scott LincicomeAs discussed in my recentPolicy Analysis on the subject, today ’s critics of U.S.-China economic engagement often overstate the harms caused by Chinese goods imports in the year’s following China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (a.k.a. the “China Shock”) while ignoring trade liberalization’s many benefits during the same period. A newWorking Paper from the Center for Global Development drills down on one such benefit: increased U.S. higher education exports to China (i.e., Chinese students attending U.S. colleges and universities). The paper ’s abstract summarizes the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Diversity and Inclusion
Yep, most institutions of higher education nowadays have a statement about diversity and inclusion, and they typically back it up with a more specific Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. Mine does, and we also have equivalents for the school and the department.Contrary to what some people seem to think, this does not mean that we will admit students or appoint faculty who are less qualified than competitors simply because they belong to what we call Historically Underrepresented Groups, which has the unfortunate acronym of HUG. (That includes underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, and also sexual and gender minorities.) W...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 10, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A New Kind of Labor Day
By KIM BELLARD
This is probably the strangest Labor Day in decades, perhaps ever. Tens of millions of workers remain unemployed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of those who are still working are adapting to working from home. Those who are back at their workplace, or never left, are coping with an array of new safety protocols.
Those who work in the right industries – like the NBA – may get tested regularly but most workers have to figure out for themselves when to quarantine and when to get tested. For many workers, such as health care workers, people of color, and workers ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Kim Bellard labor day Source Type: blogs
Pardee RAND's Faculty Leaders Program: Shaping the Future of Public Policy
To be effective, public policy needs to reflect the aspirations, lives, and perspectives of the people it serves. The Pardee RAND Graduate School seeks to build diversity in public policy by engaging faculty leaders from U.S. colleges and universities committed to serving students of color. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 2, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Call for Submissions: Ethics and Social Justice Essay Prize
Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Ethics and Social Justice Essay Prize2020 Theme: Racial Justice: Realities and Possibilities The Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Ethics and Social Justice Essay Prizeis an undergraduate essay competition open to college seniors at accredited 4-year colleges and universities in the U.S. The competition is intended to amplify historically underrepresented voices […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 2, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Ethics and Society Tags: Ethics Health Care Center for Ethics Education essay prize Ethical dilemma Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Fordham University Student Voices Master of Arts in Ethics and Society Racial Justice scholarship syndicated Source Type: blogs
Announcing The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge
By FARZAD MOSTASHARI
In Partnership with Resolve to Save Lives, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Maryland, Catalyst @ Health 2.0 is excited to announce the launch of The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge. The COVID-19 Symptom Data Challenge is looking for novel analytic approaches that use COVID-19 Symptom Survey data to enable earlier detection and improved situational awareness of the outbreak by public health and the public.
How the Challenge Works:
In Phase I, innovators submit a white paper (“digital poster”) summarizing the approach, methods, analysis, findings, relevant figures and graphs ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Data Health Policy challenge Facebook Source Type: blogs
Blown up in smoke: Young adults who vape at greater risk of COVID symptoms
COVID-19 has swept across the globe, infecting millions and resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Substantial resources have been invested into understanding individual vulnerability in order to protect those at greatest risk. Age is the most often cited risk factor; 75% of US deaths have been in people over the age of 65, while younger people generally have milder symptoms. In addition to age, the Centers for Disease Control has delineated a list of health factors that increase vulnerability, most of which are chronic disorders that generally alter health status. The single most modifiable risk factor for severe C...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sharon Levy, MD, MPH Tags: Addiction Adolescent health Children's Health Cold and Flu Coronavirus and COVID-19 Lung disease Smoking cessation Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
August 27, 2020 Edition. ----- For this week, after the Biden / Harris ticket is endorsed for the Democrats, we have a critique of Trump from Republicans. Just about says is all! https://www.defendingdemocracytogether.org/national-security/ In the UK we are seeing some hints of a second wave emerging. They will need to be very careful! Brexit also appears to be a total mess with not many weeks to go. In OZ we are seeing a spectacular amount of finger pointing and blame shifting between the Commonwealth and the States on issues like aged care. We are also seeing all sorts of little breakouts and new clusters popping u...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 26, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
5 ways to ease pain using the mind-body connection
I smashed my elbow a few weeks ago. There was no bone break — just a bad bruise after slipping in the kitchen and landing on my arm — but at times the pain has been excruciating. So I’ve been following doctor’s orders: babying my elbow, icing it, and taking an occasional over-the-counter painkiller. (PS: I wear sneakers in the kitchen now.)
Something else has helped, too: mind-body therapies. These approaches aim to change our awareness of pain and retrain the way we respond to it. The therapies can help us control pain — such as long-lasting back pain — or live with it better. While these techniques won’t er...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Back Pain Complementary and alternative medicine Health Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 24th 2020
We report that electrical stimulation (ES) stimulation of post-stroke aged rats led to an improved functional recovery of spatial long-term memory (T-maze), but not on the rotating pole or the inclined plane, both tests requiring complex sensorimotor skills. Surprisingly, ES had a detrimental effect on the asymmetric sensorimotor deficit.
Histologically, there was a robust increase in the number of doublecortin-positive cells in the dentate gyrus and SVZ of the infarcted hemisphere and the presence of a considerable number of neurons expressing tubulin beta III in the infarcted area. Among the genes that were unique...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 23, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Aging Research Should be Far More of a Priority than is Presently the Case
For our species, aging is by far the greatest single cause of suffering and death. It is presently inevitable, affects everyone, and produces a drawn out decline of pain and disability, leading to a horrible death through progressive organ failure of one sort or another. The integrity of the mind is consumed along with the vitality of the body. Aging is the cause of death of 90% or more of the people who live in wealthier regions of the world, and the majority of those even in the poorest regions. More than 100,000 lives every day are lost to aging, and hundreds of millions more are suffering on their way to that fate.
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Source: Fight Aging! - August 21, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Hot Financial Mess
On July 14th me and my fellow librarians spoke on the webinar, Facilities and Personnel Management While Your Library is Closed, Open, Reopening or Somewhere In-Between. In that webinar one of the things I briefly touched up on was library budget and the impact from covid-19.
Well, brace yourselves medical librarians and library vendors, because 2020 and 2021 are going to be a hot mess financially. So when we say we have no money, please know it is worse that the library has no money. We have no money means our funding agency, our institution and/or state literally has no money.
The only way I can easily discuss it...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Hot Financial Mess
On July 14th my fellow librarians and I spoke on the webinar, Facilities and Personnel Management While Your Library is Closed, Open, Reopening or Somewhere In-Between. In that webinar one of the things I briefly touched up on was library budget and the impact from covid-19.
Well, brace yourselves medical librarians and library vendors, because 2020 and 2021 are going to be a hot mess financially. So when we say we have no money, please know it is worse that the library has no money. We have no money means our funding agency, our institution and/or state literally has no money.
The only way I can easily discuss it ...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - August 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
