Nicholas A. Christakis

@NAChristakis

Scientist. Author. Physician. Sociologist. Yale professor working at boundary of natural & social sciences. Can slip to a side. Luckily wed

Vermont, USA
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Joined August 2012
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    17 May 2017

    Adding some slightly noisy bots to social networks helps humans to help themselves. Our latest in

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  2. 7 hours ago

    On the ongoing need for nuance in our civic discourse, ESPECIALLY about hard topics, yet again by the brilliant &

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    9 hours ago

    A five year old, in any legal proceeding, must have an adult guardian. A five year old can't sign an enforceable contract to buy a comic book. But this is ICE. ICE says she can sign away all of her rights.

    This is being done in our name, by the Trump administration--the *actual* enemies of the people of the United States. Vote this November.
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    21 hours ago

    University of Michigan Information School is hiring in "machine learning and causal inference"! I'm pretty excited since I think I'm the first person to teach a PhD course entirely devoted to the topics in the ad, starting several years ago.

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  5. 13 hours ago

    Little baby snow will soon be all grown up.

    The first snow of the cold season has arrived across the Greens and the Adirondacks! Here's a snapshot taken at the stake of Mt. Mansfield.
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    13 hours ago

    Confessing sheepishly that I did not know until attending a seminar yesterday that the Lorenz Curve was the 1905 invention of Max Lorenz, who was at the time a UW-Madison doctoral student.

    excerpts from paper
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  7. 23 hours ago

    Just When Should We Start Worrying About Deficits? Easy. The republicans will start expressing concern again when the democrats are in power.

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    Oct 12

    Nicaraguan universities have allegedly expelled more than 100 students who protested or criticized President Ortega:

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    Oct 12

    Me in The Weekly Standard on the Sokal Squared hoax and how sociology came out unscathed, notwithstanding the public sociology movement to sell our methodological and theoretical birthright for a mess of wokage

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    Oct 12

    Three of Peter Singer's grandparents died in the Holocaust. This is Singer's view on criminalizing Holocaust denial:

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  11. Oct 12

    And here is an incredible TEDx talk, with 400k views, full of insights and humor, about the harms of particular kinds of TV exposure in early childhood, via

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  12. Oct 12

    Excellent review by et al in : Observational studies in humans link exposure to fast-paced TV in the first 3 years of life w subsequent ADHD; and experiments w mice corroborate that excessive stimulation leads to similar deficits.

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    Oct 12

    Washington Becomes 20th State to End Death Penalty: A seemingly inexorable trend, globally and within the last Western holdout, the US. It may go the way of slavery. via

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    Oct 11

    I feel like these intermittent updates from Boston Dynamics are like those oddly foreboding news reports that always play in the background at the beginning of disaster movies

    Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot shows upgraded agility in 'Parkour' video:
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    Oct 11

    Snake robot by the Matsuno Lab at Kyoto University.

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    Oct 12

    Writting up field notes. in . @ Worli b.d.d chawl

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    Oct 12

    One great thing philosophy teaches you is to respect, and even intensely admire, those you profoundly disagree with. A healthy democracy needs us to become philosophers in this sense.

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  18. Oct 11

    Mindbogglingly illiberal and absurd.

    Israel fines New Zealand teenagers $18,000 for urging Lorde concert boycott
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    Oct 11

    Sir Richard Branson suspends Saudi business talks over Khashoggi affair

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    Oct 11

    Asia Bibi's Final Hearing is Tomorrow. Don't Let Her Be Executed via

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    Oct 11

    Roya Mahboob paid her female contributors in bitcoin as they were not allowed to have bank accounts. She's now teaching girls about blockchain, crypto, how to code and financial literacy. My new hero

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