Political Scientist @RANDCorporation, Prof. @VTSPIA & author of Disasters and the American State. Opinions mine; RTs ≠ endorsements.
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‘We can do better’: FEMA makes sweeping changes to speed up disaster aid washingtonpost.com/climate-e…
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“I increasingly come to see that we are not in a crisis of information and disinformation or even of misguided beliefs, but instead of belonging” by @jeffjarvis medium.com/whither-news/jour…
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Who would've thought that Acapulco policy was to emphasize earthquake resistance which meant keeping buildings light, in turn meaning, keep exteriors and windows lightweight. Well along came Otis... Oops.
theconversation.com/acapulco…
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@Chengxin_M_Xu will present our paper on a conjoint analysis on evidence-based practices (appam.confex.com/appam/2023/…) and Dr. Ji Ma @TheLBJSchool will present our paper on why some academic articles get more citations form policy documents: appam.confex.com/appam/2023/… Please stop by!
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VP Harris touted the new A.I. Safety Institute during her visit to Bletchley Park. But the organization that will assess the models of the world's richest companies will be under the federal lab NIST, which is notoriously underfunded and understaffed.
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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The purpose of liberal arts education is not to build your career. It’s to broaden your mind.
You don’t have to justify a major based on job prospects. The only explanation necessary is “it interests me.”
The true value of college is improving your ability to think and learn.
Space/solar weather is the most underrated potentially catastrophic disaster— Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings | ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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This chart from today’s @washingtonpost notes the pivotal role of legal opinions written by the late Ben Civiletti. At age 28, working with the AG on these opinions would prove my most impactful work in public administration. He thought the opinions would deter shutdowns.
Fukuyama: In Defense of the deep state tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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The Internet has real treasures for those interested in 𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗽𝗵𝘆. The two I keep coming back to are the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu/contents.…
& Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu/eds/
A big thanks to their editors & authors🙏
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Good piece from @RiceKinderInst featuring James Elliot and @anna_rhodes1 on flood insurance and housing in Houston. Houston’s affordability has been propped up by cheap NFIP insurance. Insurance premiums are set to rise 75%, however… kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/fl…
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Now in print in @PSJ_Editor: I examine why some political institutions experience more policy disasters--financial crises and high casualty natural and technological disasters using predictions from Punctuated Equilibrium Theory. /Thread
doi.org/10.1111/psj.12460
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For anyone similarly interested in learning about how we measure the economic costs of disasters (direct and indirect), I learned a lot from this review piece journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…
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TL;DR: you can safely ignore all research findings in the fields of nutrition and exercise.
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The US leads the world in weather catastrophes. Here's why | AP News apnews.com/article/tornadoes…
Reframe pandemic preparedness as global health insurance—the catastrophic kind thehill.com/opinion/healthca…
