Saturday, November 15, 2025
Pandemic Divergence: The Social and Economic Costs of Covid-19
An early stab at a Covid ledger. Not pretty.
Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.
Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters
Climate messaging has changed, but the willingness to take adequate measures has not.
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/11/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
From Rodney King to George Floyd, How Video Evidence Can Be Differently Interpreted in Courts
Video evidence can be read very differently, depending on the assumed or actual context. How can courts prevent misuse?
Bayer-Monsanto Fails (At First Attempt) to Block Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and Ban on GMO Corn
Mexico has already gone mano a mano with Monsanto before, and it came out on top. But this time it’s on a direct collision course with Big Ag and the U.S. government.
Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”
Top scholars charge the online publication Frontiers in Pharmacology with gross editorial misconduct in spiking articles on Covid treatments.
How Upskilling America Will Rebuild the Middle Class
A sanity check on how far “let them eat training” will go in restoring the fallen American middle class.
WHO, CDC Throw in the Towel on Covid Aerosol Transmission, Biden Administration Seems Oblivious
Tired: Droplets, fomites. Wired: Aerosols. Let us go forth and mitigate!
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide
For nearly a decade, pipeline companies have relied on the contested Nationwide Permit 12 when their projects cross waterbodies in the U.S.
CDC Chooses to Fly Blind on Vaccine Breakthrough Cases
The CDC’s latest move in contrary to the interest of sound public health and science.
