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    The Healing of America - 1 year(s) ago

    A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill”Important and powerful . . . a rich tour of health care around the world.” —Nicholas Kristof, The New York TimesBringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world–France, Britain,…

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    • @DrMarthaGulati @propublica I’d prefer the nonprofit insurance models that I recently read about in some of the European countries. https://t.co/JwxpLmuHnf

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    Bernoulli's Fallacy - 1 year(s) ago

    There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a…

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    • Looks like a great read! Especially for us p-value lovers🙃 🙏🙏🙏 https://t.co/dvtvsKAq5c https://t.co/ADyicq7It0

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    Winner of the BMA Oncology Book of the Year Award. The authors provide a compendium of best practice, including 25 case studies to act as models for professionals to make decisions, either for individual patients or as the basis for policy across an organisation, planning area, region or country. This guide is designed as a handbook for practising clinicians and professionals. It is also an…

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    • RT @jimtill: An award-winning book co-edited by Peter Selby: https://t.co/3joPGLTfs6 "Galina Velikova, Lesley Fallowfield, Jane Younger,…

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    ‘Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?’ remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt now enters this fascinating debate with his broad, lively and deeply informed narrative that traces all our efforts to grasp the origins of the…

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    • RT @SteveStuWill: David Deutsch: Knowledge = one part of the universe modelling other parts https://t.co/ilVGNoia6h https://t.co/NurdF5TbxB

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    The Turnaway Study - 1 year(s) ago

    “If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria Steinem “Dr. Diana Greene Foster brings what is too often missing from the public debate around abortion: science, data, and the real-life experiences of people from diverse backgrounds…This should be required reading…

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    The Atlantic Monthly - 2 year(s) ago

    0 ReviewsReviews aren’t verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it’s identifiedWrite review About this book

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    • “Every now and then, a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes. Sr. 1858 https://t.co/Jifntge9uk

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    The P2X7 Receptor - 2 year(s) ago

    This detailed volume covers diverse aspects of P2X7 receptor analysis, ranging from its molecular structure to related pharmacological and immunological tools, via its analysis in heterologous expression systems as well as assays using primary cells and whole animal models. After three introductory chapters that focus on its structure, ligands, and physiological functions, the book details the…

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    • RT @mansoor_steven: I might not be objective but this is the most interesting receptor: https://t.co/GX8I0jO3Am

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    Cycles of Contingency - 2 year(s) ago

    The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process….

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    • RT @matspike: @WiringTheBrain this one's a classic from Oyama, Gray, and Griffiths https://t.co/LWVlpZl0pR But there's tons of other stuff…

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    An eye-opening assement of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years.Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.S. Navy. With all the world’s oceans safe for the first time…

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    • I’m a bit late to this one, but what a read! If you read 1 book this summer, it needs to be “The Accidental Superpower” by @PeterZeihan Could not be more relevant and eye opening in 2022: https://t.co/ndVHP4iqXW