Experts are trying to get a handle on biological aging of the population, as opposed to calendar ages. But are the methods all that good?
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Why Population Aging Demands Looking Beyond Chronological Age
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:44 am | 17 Comments »
Game of Drones: “Watch the Skies!”
Several theories for the rash of drone sightings in New Jersey
Topics: Curiousities, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 pm | 67 Comments »
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources
Lambert here: “Sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” By Hannah Norman, video producer and visual reporter, who joined KFF Health News after covering health care for the San Francisco Business Times. Previously, she was a fellow at AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s event branch. Originally published at KFF Health News. Juana Valle never imagined […]
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:50 am | 18 Comments »
Links 12/14/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 308 Comments »
Tom Neuburger: The Media’s Bizarre Treatment of the Mangione Case
The press hesitates to fully report the alleged Mangione murder. Class interests at work?
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:40 am | 91 Comments »
The Democratic Party Faces Its Day of Reckoning
A good recap of how the Democratic Party sold out the working class to become the fake opposition. But what comes next?
Topics: Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:28 am | 95 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/13/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; RFK, Trump, and vax; Covid “viral reservoir” theory recieves support; Where oil profits went; New Covid charts: Good news, but positivity uptick ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 124 Comments »
NYC Mayor Adams Trying to Wriggle Free from Sanctuary City Restrictions; Has “Same Desire” as Trump Border Czar
NYC Mayor Adams will work with the Trump Administration to remove illegal aliens who have committed crimes. What about sanctuary city laws?
Topics: Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:02 am | 10 Comments »
Links 12/13/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 163 Comments »
First Year of Javier Milei’s Economic “Miracle”: Plunging Inflation, Surging Poverty, Rising Inequality and Slumping Industry
“The deep chainsaw is coming” in the second year.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:44 am | 30 Comments »
“Anti-Western or Non-Western? The Nuanced Geopolitics of BRICS”
More on how much and what kind of influence BRICS might wield when it grows up.
Topics: China, Currencies, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:50 am | 48 Comments »
A Heart Attack and Stroke Drug That Saves Lives Exists—But American Patients May Be Left Behind by Profit-Driven Healthcare
An example of medical industry inertia and profit priorities thwarting better treatments, here new clot-busters for heart attacks and strokes
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:46 am | 24 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/12/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump: Time’s “Person of the Year”; Why Ernst changed her mind on Hegseth (some speculation); Thumbs down on UCLA’s AI-designed textbook cover ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 93 Comments »
Warren Bill Would Stop Companies From Placing Shareholder Paydays Over Worker Rights
Warren revives a bill intended to put shareholder obligations in their proper place: at the bottom.
Topics: CEO compensation, Corporate governance, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 13 Comments »