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us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…

Congratulations on National Anthem Day of Ukraine!: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/congratulations-on-national.html

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

Just learned that our two-part panel on Transforming Knowledge for Just and Sustainable Futures: Implications for Education Policy and Research, has been accepted to the World Congress of Comparative Education Societies at Cornell.
Looking forward to this.
https://www.wcces2024congress.org/congress

👍 Kishida tells Congress Japan will help US carry the load abroad - Roll Call
https://rollcall.com/2024/04/11/kishida-tells-congress-japan-will-help-us-carry-the-load-abroad/

Kishida tells Congress Japan will help US carry the load abroad - Roll Call
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida told Congress that Tokyo is ready to carry a larger share of the burden the U.S. has borne for decades.

Shouldn’t we know this already? The link between alcohol and breast cancer
https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/07-03-2024-shouldn-t-we-know-this-already--the-link-between-alcohol-and-cancer

Shouldn’t we know this already? The link between alcohol and breast cancer
Many people across the WHO European Region will celebrate 8 March, International Women’s Day, by raising a glass of an alcoholic beverage – oblivious to the fact that drinking alcohol is a major risk factor for the most common cancer among women, breast cancer. Low awareness of this link represents a significant barrier to cancer prevention and a challenge to women’s health across Europe.According to a recent study, only 21% of women across 14 European countries were aware of the connecti…

us_congress: US Congressional co-sponsorship (1973-2016)
Two temporal networks of bill co-sponsorship tendencies among US Congresspeople, from 1973 (93rd Congress) to 2016 (114th Congress). Edges are signed, indicating the presence of a significant tendency to co-sponsor, or tendency to not co-sponsor, bills. Two networks per year, one for each chamber (House, Senate). Each file contains the signed network for a chamber of congress (H = House, S = Senate) in one session (e.g. 93 = 93rd…

The anti-lab-grown-meat movement is about conservative cultural insecurity — the fear that, without the force of law, some conservative cultural norms will fade away…
This is the real fear
— not of lab-grown meat itself, but of the changing culture its popularity would represent.
Whether conservatives find the meat substitute to be adequate is beside the point.
Society would have decided that some of their most cherished beliefs can be disposed of.
Both humankin…

Why is there a movement to ban lab-grown beef? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: …let me offer another theory: The anti-lab-grown-meat movement is about conservative cultural insecurity — the fear that, without the force of law, some conservative cultural norms will fade away… Imagine that lab-grown meat proves feasible at a reasonable cost. It might end […]

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels citing government notices (Raksha Kumar/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics…