Sunday, January 19, 2025

Why Population Aging Demands Looking Beyond Chronological Age

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?

Game of Drones: “Watch the Skies!”

Several theories for the rash of drone sightings in New Jersey

Links 12/15/2024

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 […]

Links 12/14/2024

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?

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?

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 ~

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?

Links 12/13/2024

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.

“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.

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

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 ~

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.