~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Friday’s charts: RCP averages (good week for Trump); Covid (XEC has entered the chat); What, again, was Kamala thinking?! Boeing files unfair labor practice charge with NLRB against machinists (wowsers) ~
Read more...Supposed forecasting mavens are simply ignoring the real economy effects, like poor harvests, of climate change.
Read more...Recent trends and developments in Northern Europe suggest the shift away from cash and toward purely digital payment systems may have reached its upper limits — at least for now.
Read more...A worker-owned collective helps Chicagoans find mutual aid-based organizations, in the face of a weakening economy and social safety nets.
Read more...An academic contends that protest and third party votes are counterproductive.
Read more...US presidential candidates promise policy choices but have little room to manoeuvre. Ergo, politics turns into a contest like American Idol
Read more...A new paper in Nature finds that exceeding a 1.5°C increase in global temperature is more deadly and durable than previously thought.
Read more...Seeking reader reactions to recommendations on how to engage in “media activism”.
Read more...~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; fun with maps: Helene and Milton could make Pennsylvania the key; Kamala has a beer with Stephen Colbert; on hurricanes; Response to Helene in NC; Boeing talks break down as management walks away from the table. ~
Read more...KLG returns to why the discredited amyloid thesis as the cause of Alzheimer’s nevertheless persists.
Read more...The search for safe places to hide from climate change impacts is already underway, yet is set to be largely futile.
Read more...A new report, Black Box Biotech, warns of the biodiversity and error risk of AI engineered proteins, aka synthetic or “generative biology”.
Read more...Europe is hardly the safest place for financial assets these days, as Russia and Venezuela can attest. It may now be Argentina’s turn to have its assets frozen or even stripped.
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