Voters Fret High Medical Bills Are Being Ignored by Presidential Rivals
“We’re all human beings here. We’re all people just trying to make it.”
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Links 10/24/2024
‘Hate and Lust for Vengeance Are Passed Like Poison from One Generation to the Next’
Vengeance is coming home.
Read more...The Economics of Medicine: Personal Reflections
More examples of how medicine, at least as practiced in the US, is going off the rails.
Read more...Heterodox Approaches Will Provide Answers to the Multiple Cascading Crises of Our Future
The old normal is rigid and destructive to humans and the planet. Heterodox ideas offer some hope, but will they be sufficient?
Read more...Big and Small Businesses Are Nothing Like Each Other
An important yet oft-ignored point: big and small businesses are wildly different, and that matters from a policy perspective.
Read more...The Dark Side of AI-Powered Synthetic Biology
Another warning about the dangers of AI-supercharged synthetic biology.
Read more...My Life So Far in Writing Bits and Bytes (Partly, at Least)
How I learned to finish what I started.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/22/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Trump and the Blob; Kamala’s beliefs, if any, unknown, perhaps not knowable; Wall Street iffy on contract agreement; restructuring begins? Read more...
The Medici’s Quiet Coup: How the Wealthy Bend Politics without Shifting Institutions
This column studies the circumstances under which a relatively open political system can be corrupted by its confrontation with concentrated wealth.
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Mexico Escalates Its War on Obesity by Declaring National Ban on Junk Food Sales in Schools
Mexico is the leading consumer of soft drinks in the world with an average consumption of 163 litres per person per year — 40% more than the US in second place. Child and adult obesity are off the charts.
Read more...How Corporate Vehicles Conceal Crime and Chicanery
Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Read more...Trump Dons Apron, Works Drive-thru, Fry Station at Bucks County, PA McDonald’s, Warming Hearts and Exploding Heads
Hot takes on Trump’s campaign “stunt” at McDonald’sa
Read more...How the Surrealists Used Randomness as a Catalyst for Creative Expression
it’s important to recognize that embracing randomness allowed these artists to think outside the box
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