by David Yamane | Apr 16, 2023 | Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes, suicide
Yesterday I explored America’s violent exceptionalism by looking at homicide data for the 38 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collected by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Today I want to...
by David Yamane | Apr 15, 2023 | Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, homicide, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes
Lately, I have been working on the chapter of my book on American gun culture that explores negative outcomes with firearms. Although I differ from most scholars studying guns by beginning not with gun deviance but with the normality of guns and gun owners, I do take...
by David Yamane | Apr 14, 2023 | accidental injury, Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes, Risk
Lately, I have been working on the chapter of my book on American gun culture that explores negative outcomes with firearms. Although I differ from most scholars studying guns by beginning not with gun deviance but with the normality of guns and gun owners, I do take...
by David Yamane | Apr 6, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Google Bard, Gun Culture, guns are normal
The Dana Carvey SNL character “Grumpy Old Man” has always been a favorite of mine, especially the tagline, “I like things the way they used to be.” Now, I am not a full-on Luddite when it comes to technology. I got my first computer (Apple IIc)...
by David Yamane | Mar 8, 2023 | American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Data, diversity, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat
I have presented my work dozens of times in the 30 years since my first academic conference presentation in 1992. I had never missed a scheduled presentation until this year, when I could not attend a session (organized by Nicholas Buttrick and including Tara Warner...
