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Benson’s research became a 20-year project of studying tummo and other advanced techniques while he also taught at the Harvard Medical School and served as president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston, where he believes the study of meditation can “uncover capacities that will help us to better treat stress-related illnesses.” The claims of monks who practice tummo have been substantiated in Benson’s work, showing, he says, “what advanced forms of meditation can do to help the mind...

The recent era of globalization has witnessed growing cross-country trade integration as firms’ production chains have spread across the world, and with stock market returns becoming more correlated across countries. While research has predominantly focused on how financial integration impacts the propagation of shocks across international financial markets, trade also influences these cross-border spillovers. In particular, one important aspect, highlighted by the recent work of di Giovanni...

In 1989, the top 1% owned 4.81 % of household wealth and the bottom 50% held 0.76%. In Q3 2020 (latest), the top 1% owned 36.18% and the bottom 50% owned 2.36%The middle is shrinking relatively to the top. The bottom 50% is "doing much better." (snark)Federal Reserve Board of GovernorsDistributional Financial Accounts Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989See alsoStrategic Culture FoundationAmerica’s Richest 1% Owned 5% in 1990, Own 36% TodayEric Zuesse

Fact-check opinion pieces? No time, no resources, no problem.And this is the US "paper of record"?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceNYT editor described columnists as ““people who are paid to have very, very strong convictions, and to believe that they’re right.”Andrew Gelman | Professor of Statistics and Political Science and Director of the Applied Statistics Center, Columbia University

Signs of the times. India has had women leaders previously (Indira Gandhi), but this combines age and gender dramatically. Even though she was too young to vote in previous elections, she has been a longtime activist.NDTV (India)21-Year-Old [Female] College Student Elected Mayor Of Kerala CapitalReported by Sneha Mary Koshy, Edited by Arun Nair

It’s Wednesday and I usually try to write less blog material. But given the holiday on Monday and a couple of interesting developments, I thought I would write a bit more today. And after that, you still get some great piano playing to make wading through central bank discussions worth while. The Financial Times article (January 4, 2021) – Investors believe BoE’s QE programme is designed to finance UK deficit – is interesting because it provides one more piece of evidence that exposes the...

A volunteer who signed up for Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine trial was struck by lightning 28 days after receiving the injection. That 72 year-old volunteer, whose name and gender have been withheld, met with the freak accident after getting an actual shot of Moderna’s vaccine, rather than the placedo, during the second phase of the vaccine’s trials.Covid vaccine volunteer, 72, struck by lightningp.twitter

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