https://t.co/NBx7NQZMMy now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates + age- and sex-specific net migration rates! Dive into the Victorian & Edwardian era with this Campop interactive atlas. Explore the geography of movement across England, Wales, & Scotland like never before!
📜NEW WORKING PAPER📜
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
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Nicolas Cage pays tribute to David Lynch in the new issue of Empire.
“Wild At Heart is one of the best movies I’ve ever made,” he tells Empire. “I never had more fun working with anybody than I did with David Lynch.”
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So, Twin Peaks is in production & Lynch is up in Washington and hears that a particularly annoying ABC executive is coming for a set visit. The executive shows up in the morning and Lynch proclaims "You've got a great face! I'm gonna make you an extra. Get him to hair & makeup!"
There will never be a David Lynch again. One because he was special, two because the conditions in which be got to become a filmmaker and take risks don’t exist anymore
Rewatching The Return last month I was struck by what an unprecedented line in the sand it offers. A sprawling canvas of weaving liminalities, dissonant aesthetics, and narrative that degrades instead of develops. It’s like a challenge from one century of the medium to the next
I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.
Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.
In memory of David Lynch, we will continue to explore the otherworldly and the unknown. We will focus not on the loss, but on what we gained from the years we shared this planet with you. We will see you in our dreams.
David Lynch - A huge and sad loss. A remarkably unique and very talented filmmaker. It was such a truly great pleasure to work with him. If his name was in the credits, you knew the film was really worth seeing. I will miss him.