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The Amazing Psychedelic Bamboozle. An experiment on the effects of psychedelic drugs on creativity was actually a creative deception.

Fake animal news abounds on social media as coronavirus upends life.

US weather outlook highlights spring flooding risk. NOAA’s seasonal outlook shows warm temperatures and rain inequality. First, pandemic. Then floods. Then fires.

Ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland increased sixfold in the last 30 years. The next fun apocalypse after this one, arriving soon.

China Is Not the Hero of the Pandemic. You can criticize Trump without parroting Beijing’s propaganda.

We Have a Food Crisis Unfolding Out of Sight. America has fed millions through disasters before. Mobilize restaurant workers now.

Educating the Washington Post: We Did Not Have to Bail Out the Banks in 2008.

The coronavirus relief bill could turn into a corporate coup if we aren’t careful.

The Democrats Screwed Up. When do they not screw up?

Neoliberal globalization has been dealt a serious blow.

Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology.

Service Workers Already Lived in the Fringes, Coronavirus Is Making it Worse.

Our Never-Ending Recession.

Just-in-Time Inventories Make U.S. Vulnerable in a Pandemic. From 2006.

With Climate Change or the Coronavirus, Florida Always Waits Until It’s Too Late.

As COVID-19 spreads, truckers need to keep on trucking.

Against Dog Ownership.

The Crisis in Financial Markets Began Before COVID-19.

Spotted water hemlock is the most toxic plant in North America.

Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains? The COVID-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call for managers and prompt them to consider actions that will improve their resilience to future shocks.

Let’s politicize the coronavirus crisis.

Why Biden’s Plan to Expand the ACA Won’t Work.

Unsanitized: Private Equity Licks Its Chops.

Desperate in the UK.

The Fragile System Supplying Food to the World Is Under Strain.

China’s coronavirus recovery is ‘all fake,’ whistleblowers and residents claim.

This Is the One Thing That Might Save the World From Financial Collapse.

The coronavirus crisis shows what happens when a country puts its workers last.

Banks Pressure Health Care Firms to Raise Prices on Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies for Coronavirus.

you should mourn.

U.S. Should Stop Water Shutoffs During the Covid-19 Pandemic—and Forever.

NASA Fixes Mars Lander By Telling It to Hit Itself With a Shovel.

Why Covid-19 is worse than the flu.

Fed Announces Program for Wall Street Banks to Pledge Plunging Stocks to Get Trillions in Loans at ¼ Percent Interest.

The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver.

Global warming influence on extreme weather events has been frequently underestimated.

Green Jobs Are the Answer to the Coronavirus Recession.

Lessons of the Virus: Who Creates Value And What The Good Life Is.

Who wants a revolution? Not the media. And look who owns the media.

It’s Staggering How Many Coronavirus-Related Layoffs Have Already Happened.

Now Is the Time to Cancel Student Debt.

Virtually every kind of adversity is reflexively approached now through bizarrely inappropriate war metaphors.

I’m a virologist & investor… & I’m hearing people say it’s impossible to make covid vaccine b/c we haven’t been able to make one to any coronaviruses. Not true. We have veterinary vaccines for dog & cow strains. Human one’s not been investment worthy, until now. here’s why….

USDA Fights to Take Away Food Stamps From 700,000 Americans Despite Pandemic.

Employee Working From Home Frantically Trying To Finish Report By End Of Days.

The Inconsentability of Facial Surveillance.

While Top Democrats Waffle, GOP Rolls Out Plans for Coronavirus Cash Handouts. Is Pelosi Leading From Behind? She’s not just a waffler, she’s a whole damn Waffle House.

Coronavirus Lays Bare The Real Horror Of American Healthcare.

Junk-Bond Spreads & BBB-Bond Spreads Blow Out Past Lehman-Bankruptcy Levels.

In secret meeting 3 weeks ago, Intelligence Chairman told rich and powerful people to prepare for pandemic.

Coronavirus Spurs Demand For Face Masks — But They’re Surprisingly Hard To make.

America Is Acting Like a Failed State. America is a failed state, just a very rich one.

Coronavirus Will Revive an All-Powerful State. Not so sure about this.

After Blowing $4.5 Trillion on Share Buybacks, Airlines, Boeing, Many Other Culprits Want Taxpayer & Fed Bailouts of their Shareholders.

Why Stock Buybacks Are Dangerous for the Economy.

18% of U.S. workers have lost jobs or hours since coronavirus hit, poll finds.

Coronavirus to impact low-wage, black workers the most.

The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff. Like Japan in the mid-1800s, the United States now faces a crisis that disproves everything the country believes about itself.

What Happens If the US Does Absolutely Nothing To Combat COVID-19?

Don’t Give the Airlines What They Want. I own airline stock, and I still agree with this.

The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers.

Joe Biden Is Hillary Clinton 2.0 — Democrats Would Be Mad to Nominate Him.

Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are getting ready for massive bailouts of the corporate sector.

U.S. Airlines Spent 96% of Free Cash Flow on Buybacks.

Restaurants Are Fucked — Unless They Get a Bailout.

Strongly heterogeneous transmission of COVID-19 in mainland China: local and regional variation.

This Is How the Coronavirus Will Destroy the Economy. This once-in-a-century pandemic is hitting a world economy saddled with record levels of debt.

CNN’s Coverage of Sanders Was 3X More Negative Than Biden Following Their Big Primary Wins.

Aerosol and surface stability of HCoV-19 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to SARS-CoV-1.

A feckless Fed, huge budget deficits and poisonous politics have brought us to a crisis.

Coronavirus Testing.

Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired. To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.

Democrats Sleepwalk Into the Nomination of Joe Biden.

Stop Saying That Everything Is Under Control. It Isn’t. Tackling the pandemic will require a new, collective way of thinking about public health and society as a whole.

The Wing Is a Women’s Utopia. Unless You Work There.

Spain has nationalized all of its private hospitals as the country goes into coronavirus lockdown. Should be happening in the US, too. Should’ve happened long ago.

If you own a restaurant right now, what do you do?

There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill. The legislation passed by the House doesn’t actually guarantee paid sick leave to most American workers.

Men’s sex drive is not only consistently higher than women’s, but it is more consistent over time and more consistent across individuals as well.

Layoffs are Coming.

The pandemic is widening social and economic divisions that also make the virus deadlier, a self-reinforcing cycle that experts warn could have consequences for years to come.

Inside China’s campaign to blame the U.S. for the coronavirus pandemic.

More than half of American jobs are at risk because of coronavirus.

President Trump closed the White House pandemic office. I ran it.

How do we stop people from blinding other drivers with aftermarket LEDs? Hellfire missiles.

TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater.

Failed States.

Is evolutionary psychology impossible?

The Problem with the Way Scientists Study Reason.

To start the coronavirus meltdown narrative with Trump’s efforts to deliberately play down the risks we faced, which hobbled the U.S. response and will lead to potentially thousands of deaths, is to miss the reality that this systemic failure has been decades in the making.

When Scientific Management Came to Japan. Japanese workers, many of them women, worked up to 17 hours a day in the early 20th century. Yet experts still wondered why they “wasted” time.

Extreme Depth of Focus Lens.

Coronavirus Cost to Businesses and Workers: ‘It Has All Gone to Hell.’

Seattle’s Patient Zero Spread Coronavirus Despite Ebola-Style Lockdown. First known U.S. case offers lessons in how and how not to fight the outbreak.

The End of Egyptian Cotton.

Stock futures drop — hit ‘limit down’ — even as Fed slashes rates; Dow futures off 1,000 points.

Hong Kong is giving every adult resident $1,200—no strings attached.

Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70 million years ago.

High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19.

Trump Voters Wanted to Blow up the System. Well, Here We Go. System was already broken. Trump made it worse. But people are eager to defend St. Obama.

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