Thursday, September 18, 2025

Links 8/17/2020

Brawl Over Mayberry v. KKR: Big Hearing Monday Over One Contested Issue, Whether Attorney General Can Intervene in Kentucky Retirement Systems Case

The next phase of Mayberry is set to be particularly scrappy as lawyers joust for position.

Preparing for the COVID-19 Third Wave: The Case for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: a promising Covid-19 treatment that is being ignored.

Mauritius Oil Spill Tragedy: How and Why the MV Wakashio Ran Aground, and Aftermath

A mysterious course change, a birthday party, oil on the beaches, and a billion dollars in compensation (maybe).

Links 8/16/2020

COVID Data Failures Create Pressure for Public Health System Overhaul

There are signs the COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum to modernize the nation’s creaky, fragmented public health data system.

Links 8/15/2020

Scientists Seek to Collect Ice Core Samples Before Glaciers and Ice Sheets Melt

Ancient ice tells the secrets of the past, but it’s melting as the world warms.

Universal Testing: An Overlooked Covid-19 Policy Response

Why universal testing + isolation is the best way to tame Covid-19 at the lowest economic/societal cost.

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/14/2020

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

The A Levels Results Crisis and the Covid Education Train Wreck

Covid-19 is increasing inequality in educational outcomes, and that problem isn’t going away any time soon.

Links 8/14/2020

Summer Rerun: Journey Into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision

An examination of libertarian thinking, based on the work of one of its strong-form proponents, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

‘Morality Pills’ May Be the US’s Best Shot at Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic, According to One Ethicist

An ethicist seriously suggests forced medication to increase cooperation with pandemic mask-wearing.

The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Zip Code Map of Inequality

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on lower-income communities was decades in the making.