Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2023-03-04
Books mentioned on 100. Chicago’s Renegade Sheriff Wants to Fix Law Enforcement
Tom Dart is transforming Cook County’s jail, reforming evictions, and, with Steve Levitt, trying a new approach to electronic monitoring. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company.
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing James Watson & Francis Crick
“So a really disruptive paper, like Watson and Crick's seminal work that showed that DNA was in the form of a double helix, is really disruptive because all the models people proposed before them suddenly become irrelevant, and nobody will cite those papers anymore—so that's really disruptive research.”