~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Boeing assassination, beekeeping, cash ~
Monday, October 7, 2024
What Is Necessary for the Ukrainian “Sanitary Zone” to Be Sanitary?
Putin mentioned a sanitary zone as a possible solution to Russian security needs once the Ukraine war ends. What would that mean in practice?
“I Don’t Believe in Growth”
Why growth is no panacea.
Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
The promise of artificial intelligence is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.
What’s the Solution to Humanity’s Growing Ills?
Are space aliens the only creatures that might have a solution for the mess we are in? Any other deux ex machina candidates?
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/20/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics and pandemics, Boeing imbroglio continues, Trump to unload Trump Tower?, hitchhiking ~
Industrial Policy, East or West, for Development or War?
The West has gone from disdaining industrial policy to becoming a true believer.
Private Equity Buying Up Accounting Practices. What Could Go Wrong? The Health Industry Gives Some Ideas
Private equity is setting out to hoover up accounting practices. The sorry experience in health care says there is cause for pause.
“The Algorithm Told Me to Do It”: More Price Fixing in US Rental Market
Arizona and another class action join lawsuit parade against price-setting software companies and property managers, North Carolina AG investigating.
Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/19/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Boeing, brain geniues, birding, and chicken sexing. ~
When It Comes to Fighting Russian Diamonds, the Jewish Diamond Trade and De Beers Are a Busted Flush
Efforts to crush the Russian diamond trade come when the industry is under duress. Why might the comparatively small Russian exports survive?
