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Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobNov 4, 20196:07 amDecember 18, 2019
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Dispensary density and sales

Please find replication materials (code and data) reproducing all figures and statements made in this blogpost at this link. One perennial theme on Brookline’s Townwide Discussion Facebook page is the NETA cannabis dispensary, with a […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobSep 28, 20181:19 amMay 12, 2020
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Norfolk 15th Primary Election (MA state House, 9/4/18)

In the weeks leading up to the primary election, I walked around this state house district and counted/geocoded all the lawn signs for the Norfolk 15th State House race in a smartphone application. (These are […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobSep 10, 20181:19 amMay 13, 2020
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MA-7th Primary All Precincts

Caveats: Chelsea results are citywide; Everett had some precinct 3’s in the (state) shapefile that don’t seem to exist (mean imputed from city for map).

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobSep 8, 201811:58 pmSeptember 9, 2018
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MA-7th Democratic Primary (Pressley beats Capuano)

I was able to get a hold of and digitize the Boston precinct results for this race (maybe 189 of the 270 precincts in this race, though I only get 187 to merge with the […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobJul 12, 20183:29 pmJuly 12, 2018
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Fixing MA’s Good Samaritan Law: Calling 911 to report an overdose can still land you in legal trouble.

Before the legislative session concludes, Beacon Hill lawmakers will pass Governor Baker’s CARE Act, an important bill boosting services connecting overdose patients in the ER to recovery services. But the Care Act suffers from a […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobJun 26, 20183:29 amJune 28, 2018
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Unions, Right-to-Work, and Occupational Deaths

Happily, my paper “Does ‘right to work’ imperil the right to health? The effect of labour unions on workplace fatalities” is attracting a lot of attention, which makes me feel good as an academic who […]

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobJun 11, 20181:41 amJune 11, 2018
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White Supremacists are the biggest snowflakes in American History

[Cover Image from Jim Crow Songbook, 1847, admonishing Black people not to laugh at “them who happen to be white,” a rather strange play at victimhood in a year when almost all Blacks in America […]

Uncategorized by Michael ZoorobApr 5, 201812:36 amMay 12, 2020
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Cannabis “strain” variation in THC:CBD ratio, by lab

Using the I-502 data from Washington State and the ggridges library in R can make some fun graphics. In my paper with Nick, we show the distribution of logged THC:CBD ratio, by strain, for 30 […]

Uncategorized by Michael ZoorobMar 21, 201811:14 pm

Editors choose newspaper headlines, not authors.

Based on the comments on my recent Monkey Cage post (describing a paper Nick Jikomes and I wrote about inconsistent cannabanoid reporting, by lab in Washington’s i502 testing data and several other interesting things about legal […]

Artsy (broadly) by Michael ZoorobFeb 3, 201810:45 pmFebruary 3, 2018
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Luminous Nonlinearity

The net effect: because I decreased the amount of light emitted by my standing lamp, I now use two lights; reducing the electricity consumed by one light increased my total electricity consumption. Brilliant and definitely non-linear.

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