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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.

Society by Michael ZoorobJan 5, 20183:35 amJanuary 5, 2018
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Playing with Fusion Tables (Boston 311 Needle Pickup)

https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?q=select+col26+from+1E-ayR-Fe4xMRoO4AP-Jy2jk_jLSPgRaN7EHkUFTG&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=42.32795786180592&lng=-71.03484264526367&t=3&z=12&l=col26&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=TWO_COL_LAT_LNG

Political Stuff by Michael ZoorobJan 4, 201810:10 pm

Profiling is a reality for Muslims in the US (Vanderbilt Hustler Re-post, 02/02/15)

The campus appropriately erupted against her callous words, but the actions Swain prescribed – chiefly, “serious monitoring of Islamic organizations” – are not just the daydreams of a strident Islamophobe. They are reality. For law enforcement and intelligence agencies, profiling is policy and, for Muslim Americans, harassment is routine.

Society by Michael ZoorobDec 27, 20173:21 amDecember 27, 2017

Equality in name only? How Vanderbilt promotes a discriminatory insurance policy (Vanderbilt Hustler Re-post)

While a student, I wrote several articles for Vanderbilt’s campus newspaper, but all of these were lost from the Vanderbilt Hustler website (along with all historic website content) sometime in the summer of 2016. I’m […]

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