The New York Jets Phase of the American Experiment
Cast Iron Brains invades your feed once more to yap about the week in sports, COVID-19’s war on Republicans, Hurricane Ian’s war on Florida, Virginia’s war on gender-questioning kids, and Herschel Walker’s war on fetuses, among plenty of other wars. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — The fancy peanuts have arrived, much to Abe’s surprise
7:03 — The Braves survive the Mets, the Dawgs survive Mizzou, and Tua Tagovailoa just survives
48:15 — Excess GOP death at the hands of the coronavirus
1:05:25 — Talking about talking about Hurricane Ian
1:21:10 — Virginia’s new guidance regarding parental communication
1:34:56 — NYU kids get their organic chemistry lecturer fired
1:41:29 — Herschel Walker likes a paper trail
1:50:00 — Wrap-up! Smile, Bros, House of the Dragon
Relevant Linkage
WaPo: After vaccines became available, a partisan gap in deaths emerged
National Bureau of Economic Research: Excess Death Rates for Republicans and Democrats During the COVID-19 Pandemic
WaPo: Maps show how millions of people have moved into Hurricane Ian’s path
ScienceNews dot org: Hurricanes may not be becoming more frequent, but they’re still more dangerous — There aren’t more of the storms now than there were roughly 150 years ago, a study suggests
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab at the NOAA: Global Warming and Hurricanes — An Overview of Current Research Results
“In terms of detection and attribution, much less is known about human contributions to hurricane/tropical cyclone activity changes to date, compared to the case for global mean temperature.”
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“There is no strong evidence of century-scale increasing trends in U.S. landfalling hurricanes or major hurricanes, Similarly for Atlantic basin-wide hurricanes (after adjusting for observing capabilities), there is not strong evidence for an increase since the late 1800s in hurricanes, major hurricanes, or the proportion of hurricanes that reach major hurricane intensity.”
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“In summary, it is premature to conclude with high confidence that human-caused increases in greenhouse gases have caused a change in past Atlantic basin hurricane activity that is outside the range of natural variability, although greenhouse gases are strongly linked to global warming.”
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“Existing records of past Atlantic tropical storms (1878 to present) in fact do show a pronounced upward trend, which is also correlated with rising SSTs. However, the density of reporting ship traffic over the Atlantic was relatively sparse during the early decades of this record, such that if storms from the modern era (post 1965) had hypothetically occurred during those earlier decades, a substantial number of storms would likely not have been directly observed by the ship-based “observing network of opportunity.” We find that, after adjusting for such an estimated number of missing storms, there remains just a small nominally positive trend (not statistically significant) in tropical storm occurrence from 1878-2006 (Figure 2, from Vecchi and Knutson 2008). Landsea et al. (2010) expanded on this work, noting that the rising trend in (unadjusted) Atlantic tropical storm counts is almost entirely due to increases in short-duration (<2 day) storms alone. Such short-lived storms were particularly likely to have been overlooked in the earlier parts of the record, as they would have had less opportunity for chance encounters with ship traffic.”
Virginia 2021: Model Policies for the Treatment of Transgender Students in Virginia’s Public Schools
Virginia 2022: MODEL POLICIES ON THE PRIVACY, DIGNITY, AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN VIRGINIA’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Public comment space for the above changes.
NPR: The man who wrote the Onion's Supreme Court brief takes parody very seriously
NYT: At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame?
Daily Beast: ‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion
Daily Beast Again: She Had an Abortion With Herschel Walker. She Also Had a Child With Him.
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Bros’ Box Office: Star Billy Eichner Decries Homophobia After Dismal Opening
