Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/26/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread
An Extremely Online Christmas Sampler
A Boxing Day unwrap-up of bright shiny objects
We Asked, You Answered: Here’s How The Climate Changed Your Lives In 2019
No matter where you live, climate change will find you
A Christmas Sampler
Dear patient readers, I was going to write a post about gift-giving but I had too many non-convergent ideas for it besides wanting to reminisce about my favorite childhood gifts, all for transportation! A sled, a Flexible Flier, which ironically introduced me to infinity (the Flexible Flier had a little image of a Flexible Flier […]
How Crisco Toppled Lard – and Made Americans Believers in Industrial food
How the successful marketing of Cricso led Americans to accept all sorts of mystery branded foods.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/24/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Sanders, Trump, Warren, Los Angeles Times coverage. medical coding, reform grocery stores, holiday shipping, Disqus data debacle, Amazon, AirBnB, lost crops, climate change lawsuits, the sun, board games, Xmas round-up, super-yachts, statistical significance
Muilenburg Forced Out of Boeing, But 737 Max No Closer to Flying. What Happens If It Stays Grounded?
Why the 737 Max mess is no closer to resolution
The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
Another contributor to the gender pay gap: women undersell themselves.
“Where Should I Move To Be Safe from Climate Change?’
No place on Earth is immune from the consequences of climate change, but some regions will fare better than others.
Trumpian Rhetoric: The Case of His Letter to Pelosi (and Foreshadowing 2020).
On Trump’s schtick.
