Sarah Haider 👾
@SarahTheHaider
Pursuing truth, beauty, excellence.
How to destroy the nation's finest high schools for educating the intellectually gifted: Keep exactly the same teachers and curriculum, but ease the admissions requirements. Immediately, classroom discussion degrades to accommodate students who misunderstand what the teachers…
soon, the same people who pushed for these changes to Thomas Jefferson High School: "what happened to this school? it used to be so good"
Re: curse of childrearing
Childrearing is drudgery sometimes, but it is fun and rewarding and beautiful too. Many women choose to stay at home to raise their kids, I don’t think they see it as a ‘curse’, despite drudgery. For many, it is a privilege and a joy.
Thinking about this observation from @tylercowen again:
Before the pandemic hit, 70% of Republicans said that science has had a mostly positive effect on society. Four years later, fewer than half (47%) said so. pewresearch.org/science/2023/1…
Really wild how there are two housing markets now. If you live in the northeast or Midwest, prices are rising, everywhere around you. If you live in the south or west, prices are falling, everywhere around you. And if you live in Florida, the bottom’s falling out.
A thousand miles from New York City, the place @MadeleineKearns call home, there’s a clinic that vows to help women with ‘unexplained infertility.’ She traveled there last year, in her quest to become a mother. thefp.com/p/what-i-went-…
@madeleinekearns' incredible article in The Free Press yesterday about her and so many other women's experience suffering for years with undiagnosed endometriosis intersects with this issue. Women's Health is already behind the curve. We are just finding out the truth about…
Pamela Paul reports for @WSJ: Today, Planned Parenthood no longer positions itself as the leading healthcare provider for women and has largely stopped referring to women on its website and in policy statements. The only mention of “women” among its promotional items are…
If Chicago's pension funds were passively managed in 2024 (instead of spread across 80+ management firms), the city would have saved ~$40,000,000 in management fees. And returns would have been about 25% better.
As of right now the main purpose of AI is to make information searchable again in spite of the fall of google search.
Despite a recent $750k taxpayer subsidy, the shelves at Kansas City's government-run grocery store are "almost bare." It also lost $885k last year and is, unsurprisingly, hemorrhaging customers.