2:00PM Water Cooler 12/20/2023
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Read more...Yearly Archives: 2023
Science on Trial, Part 1
A new paper dissects how the Covid crisis demonstrated the failings in how science is practiced now. But are its suggestions for improvement bold enough?
Read more...World Bank Enables Private Capture of Profits, Public Resources
The World Bank insists on private finance or economic recovery but does little to ensure profit-hungry commercial finance serves the public
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US, Allies Opening New Front in Middle East With Escalation Against Houthis Over Shipping Lanes
The US and its allies hope to tamp out Houthi interference with Israel, and derivatively, Red Sea shipments. Will that work?
Read more...This Generation’s Problem: Climate Chaos
Climate-change-induced extreme events look more and more imminent.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/19/2023
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Read more...Israel’s Latest Weapon Against Palestine Is Egypt’s Debt
Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?
Read more...Links 12/19/2023
Is It Time To Embrace Geoengineering?
A long and useful recap of geoengineering methods.
Read more...Australia’s Central Bank Governor Discusses Possibility of Retailers Charging People for Paying in Cash
“The challenge with cash is that it really does have a big community public service sort of aura attached to it.”
Read more...Is Neoliberalism Really Dead? Or Does It Live on Like a Zombie?
Neoliberalism is still doing a fine job of zombifying economies, but the doctrine sadly is in rude health.
Read more...Both the Flu and RSV Are Airborne Aerosols, Just Like Covid (So CDC and “Droplet Dogma” Are Wrong Yet Again)
A survey of the literature on how RSV and the flu are transmitted, show that, like Covid, they too are tranmitted as airborne aerosols.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2024
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