Author Archives: Lambert Strether
Trump 2024 (Vegas) vs. Trump 2016 (Bangor): Rhetoric and Cognition
Trump’s mental acuity, voter appeal, and policies.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/19/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; Democrat plotting; RFK doens’t make the cut for the debates; how a serious country (Finland) handled bird flu; The physics of knitting. ~
Read more...Inside Big Oil’s Business as Usual: Failure on Climate and Profits from War
A new report shows oil majors fall short of meeting Paris Agreement targets while fueling global military conflicts.
Read more...Links 6/19/2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/18/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; the Trump v. Biden debate; the Black vote, and who will get it; epigenetics: heritable memories? ~
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/17/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Trump polling shows effects of conviction among independents; first Harris mailer; Biden fundraiser video; H5N1 cluster continues apace ~
Read more...Insufficient Supervisory Board Competence as a Risk Factor for Banks
Banking and financial market expertise is by no means a given.
Read more...Links 6/17/2024
Sixteen Dad Jokes in Honor of Father’s Day (with Zeisgeistiana)
What will a future Zeitgeist historian think?
Read more...Links 6/16/2024
Bird Flu Tests Are Hard To Get. So How Will We Know When To Sound the Pandemic Alarm?
“It’s hard to not compare this to covid, where early on we only tested people who had traveled.”
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/14/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; new Covid charts: stay safe out there; Kamala!; sleep and memory ~
Read more...Links 6/14/2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/13/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Electoral college moves toward Trump (slightly); Hillary Clinton services AIPAC; CDC publishes tweet with upside down mask; mushrooms and citizen science ~
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