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  1. Mar 2020
    1. Having a father who also played Major League Baseball. So if your son doesn’t make the majors, you have no one to blame but yourself: you should have practiced harder when you were a kid.Some families produce baseball players. Others produce terrorists.

      Environment and culture you grow up in has a strong affect as you as a person

    2. The infected women who were pregnant duringthe pandemic had babies who, like the Ramadan babies, ran the risk of carrying lifelong scars from being in their mothers’ bellies at the wrong time

      Can the corona virus impact newborns/ pregnancy?

    3. Let’s start withwages. It turns out that the typical street prostitute in Chicago works 13 hours a week, performing 10 sex acts during that period, and earns an hourly wage of approximately $27. So her weekly take-home pay is roughly $350. This includes an average of $20that a prostitute steals from her customers and acknowledges that some prostitutes accept drugs in lieu of cash—usually crack cocaine or heroin, and usually at a discount. Of all the women in Venkatesh’s study, 83 percent were drug addicts

      The economics of it is extremely interesting

    4. When the world was lurching into the modern era, it grew magnificently more populous, and in a hurry. Most of this expansion took place in urban centers like London, Paris, New York, and Chicago. In the United States alone, cities grew by 30 million residents during the nineteenth century, with half of that gain in just the final twenty years.But as this swarm of humanity moved itself, and its goods, from place to place, a problem emerged. The main mode of transportation produced a slew of the by-products that economists call negative externalities, including gridlock, high insurance costs, and far too many traffic fatalities. Crops that would have landed on a family’s dinner table were sometimes converted into fuel, driving up food prices and causing shortages. Then there were the air pollutants and toxic emissions, endangering the environment as well as individuals’ health

      This is very interesting because if you connect this to the corona virus you can understand why it is spreading so fat

    5. TV somehow seemed to beempowering women in a way that government interventions had not.

      Very interesting to see that once they saw that certain things were worldwide issues that women don't tolerate it gave them a sort of confidence that they didn't have before

    6. Doing the math, you find that on a per-mile basis, a drunkwalker is eight times more likely to get killed than a drunk driver.

      This shows me that statistics can show that their is so many different ways to look at a situation

    7. You find your friend, thank him for the party, and tell him the plan. He heartily applauds your good judgment.But should he? We all know that drunk driving is terribly risky, but what about drunk walking? Is this decision so easy?

      This is a very intriguing idea, have never thought about it this way