Those Texans are rank amateurs. If you want to see gerrymandering, come to Maryland. MD# 2 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Maryland_US_Congressional_District_2_%28since_2013%29.ti… (View Post)

Caught on just before your post. (View Post)

In the US and elsewhere, the attempt by ambitious DAs to criminalize medical mistakes - particularly those made by nurses in appalling conditions of stress and fatigue - is incredibly damaging not ju… (View Post)

Are you aware of Sydney Dekker's work on safety? He had a book called A Just Culture, which is about not blaming the person who messes up (unless the person did so intentionally), but looking fo… (View Post)

What do you make of Piketty's argument that Asia's labour surplus is drying up, and so the cost of labour relative to the cost of capital will rise, reducing wealth imbalances somewhat in t… (View Post)