Category Archives: Water Cooler

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Democrat National Convention vignettes; Highest Covid wave in two years; Stupid money and blood money ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics: Updated Covid data: First sighting of XDV.1 variant from China; a campaign scenario and the Democrat National Convention; Israel accepts US ceasefire deal, but not Hamas. Nice timing! ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; new RCP polling table; Reticulum; and quasi-open thread ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Walter Kirn on Kamala; Trump to jail September 18?; Sanders on 2020; Monkeypox ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Transcript of Trump’s X interview; NIH shuts down its COVID-19 treatment guidelines website for special populations; geofence warrants banned by Fifth Circuit; €16.9 trillion in labour extorted from the Global South by the Global North. ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; irrational exuberance among the Democrats; introducing Walz; Boeing’s Starliner debacle ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; best Olympic story; Walz is Kamala’s VP choice; Climate tipping points unpredictable; Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga Art ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics Charts Friday: New RCP charts (bad news for Trump); many Covid updates (a little good news); new study on Covid and traffic safety; Kamala’s VP search; aphantasia and prosopometamorphopsia. ~