This is a book review about a book about a book reviewer who reviewed books. Essentially writing about writings about writings, some of those writings presumably are themselves writings about writings. And people wonder why the humanities have become irrelevant to the lives of people today.
You touched on a pet idea of mine and, since you made the mistake of actually intelligently responding to online forum comments, now I get to make a pitch for it.
Thesis: every student accepted into medical school must complete 9 months as a medical scribe (financially compensated at some reasonable level) assigned to various medical team(s) prior to their actual entrance into med school.
They are formally trained on the latest and greatest scribing tech (which clinicians probably deprioritize).
They get exposure to what it means to work as part of a medical team. A heads-up before they pursue a medical career.
They get exposed to operational ethics, formality of ops, etc. in a role where they probably aren’t going to kill anyone.
They learn useful operational jargon and the lore of clinical practice to motivate the unending hours they will spend memorizing metabolic pathways and general trivia in med school.
They provide a friendlier, more humane “UI” for clinicians who loathe automated scribing systems, but love the fact they get to actually go home at a reasonable hour instead of charting til the wee hours. They should be actually, visibly and directly making the clinician’s job easier and more pleasant, so will be more likely to be treated with respect, perhaps even be coveted, and ultimately view the experience as a life-affirming one.
They make some decent money, less than a permanent professional scribe but more than flipping burgers, enough to secure decent med school student housing, maybe even pay for their books.
The program fits nicely into the concept of interning already part of medical training, being a sort of “data intern” with no access to the more physically impactful elements of medical practice.
> You touched on a pet idea of mine and, since you made the mistake of actually intelligently responding to online forum comments, now I get to make a pitch for it.
I have an intellectual disorder where I think people can be swayed by facts. :)
The OP title isn’t clickbait. The actual article has a title that is somewhere between clickbait and excessively biased. The positive correlation between high vitamin intake and lung cancer has been studied, reported and cited in the professional literature for many years now. Using the word “absurd” in the article title is biased and unprofessional and downright silly. AI?
Looks vaguely like the Karmarkar algorithm idea for Linear Programming where you rescale the feasible region to look spherical to make the search more efficient.
The death of boarding schools is not an absolute good. Boarding schools helped my uncle in educating and caring for his children when his wife suffered from schizophrenia.
“the production of critical thought – what is collectively referred to as the “humanities””
This is a rebranding of the humanities, but a good one. When people continue to talk of a “crisis in the humanities” for several decades with no resolution, this is a logical next step. “Humanities” as a term is broader than critical thinking, but narrowing its focus to just critical thinking would be a wonderful thing for students and professors alike.
I just wish we funded it like we cared about it. Even outside the United States funding for what we call the humanities broadly is pretty tiny. Inside the United States it’s depressing.
It’s just real clear which departments can afford to hire research assistance and teaching assistance and which ones higher adjuncts. In a lot of these institutions, I don’t think there’s enough there to support the weight it needs to support.
The west only accepts Iranian women with degrees (same for men, same for any other place for that matter, if they accept anyone at all, and for obvious reasons Russia is out, especially for men)
In other words, yes, the islamic revolution is making women smarter. Men too, but not to the same degree. But in the worst way possible. By putting a gun to their head and torturing them non-stop, then effectively letting the smartest 5% out.
Yes regime apologists want to call that "making women smarter" because "torturing women", what islam actually does, sounds ... unlikely to gather support for stopping the war and it's not like they care about these women.
So that suggests 2% of the US baseline population have violent criminal records, versus 14% of those arrested by ICE. Precisely what case is the reporter trying to make?
Maybe that 5 year olds shouldn't be put in concentration camps?
If you're not getting it, I've heard there is a startup who can grow a soul for you in a vat and mail it to you, but I don't think that they are in production yet. Pray for seed funding before you die, I suppose.
They case they're making is that the claim that they're doing it to remove violent criminals is a lie. They're sweeping up everybody, including some American citizens and others who are legally allowed to be here.
If it were a few individuals, it might be counted as a mistake. But it's not; it's clearly about xenophobia and authoritarianism.
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