Америка экспериментирует и изменяется!

NYT (https://archive.is/8VbQq) -- The San Francisco school board will vote on a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns.
А чего так? Я думал, всю алгебру теперь будет делать искусственный интеллект. Не работает?

Типичная путинская Россия

Экономика для космонавта

Dorian S. Abbot and Anup Malani@science.org -- An Economic Framework for Space Immigration. If the space economy is driven by productive activities of space settlers and there is some correlation between Earth and space skills and income, space settlers are likely to be drawn from the upper tail of Earth income distribution. An ideal way to incentivize immigration by these high-skill, high-income individuals is to declare the space economy free of redistributive taxes. Alternatively, if space settlement is driven by an insurance policy on civilization involving monetary transfers from Earth to space settlers, the space settlers are likely to be drawn from the lower tail of Earth income distribution, and only minimal marginal income beyond the cost of living in space will be necessary to create positive net utility of immigrating for them.
Очевидно, второй вариант в любом случае.

Ничего себе

NYT (https://archive.is/2bPJH) -- Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science. Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.

Это не опечатка? Девяносто пять тысяч человек?..

“It wears you down after a while,” said Dr. Marvel, who announced her resignation on Tuesday. “None of my internally funded science projects were funded. I wrote a couple other proposals, which, as far as I know, have fallen into a black hole.” Какая удача. Слава тебе, Господи.

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Не все знают, что вплоть до компьютеризации Американская Ассоциация Педиатров требовала у родильных отделений, в дополнение к основной отчётности, записывать рост и вес всех новорожденных, выраженные в сантиметрах и килограммах, в отдельный журнал. Эти журналы назывались метрическими книгами, откуда название и попало в Российскую Империю.