April 21, 2020

Protesting for the Right to Catch the Coronavirus. The reopen America protests are the logical conclusion of a twisted liberty movement.



‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans. Interest in New Zealand bunkers has surged.



Is the World’s Best Butter Worth 50 Dollars a Pound?



How ‘Fast Carbs’ May Undermine Your Health. Comfort foods like chips and cookies can short-circuit our biology and accelerate the onset of diabetes and heart disease.



Few want to talk about how 14 sailors met their deaths on a Russian engineering marvel. Fewer still want to talk about what they were doing off Norway’s waters.



The Second Phase of Unemployment Will Be Harsher.



The numbers are in: COVID-19 is worse than the flu and is now a leading cause of death.



Coronavirus Shows We Still Suck At Assessing Risk. You do. I assess risk fine.



April 20, 2020

The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead.



Why are we really in lockdown?



Gravitational waves reveal unprecedented collision of heavy and light black holes.



I’ve been pretty aggressive about pointing out progressives got crushed, but I don’t have a strategy going forward. That’s because admitting defeat and figuring out what to do has to be a collective conversation. Here are some thoughts….



Most U.S. firms have no plans to leave China due to coronavirus: survey. We are even bigger morons than I previously suspected.



America’s Biggest Cities Were Already Losing Their Allure. What Happens Next? America’s biggest cities are dystopian hellscapes.



Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change.



Making Smart Bets in the Age of COVID-19.



April 19, 2020

Nothing About New York’s Outbreak Was Inevitable.



Deep Sea Squid Communicate by Glowing Like E-Readers.



Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our American Fantasyland.



Democrats Decide, Again, Not to Try Anything New. The party chose a caretaker to look after a burning house.



Bernie Offered Us the Future. Why Did He Fail—and What Did We Forfeit?



A bust-out requires the ability to borrow from someone, so that you can steal from the people lending you money.



Tech Companies Are Destroying Democracy and the Free Pres.



Exercise during pregnancy reduces obesity among offspring.



Extinction of threatened marine megafauna would lead to huge loss in functional diversity.



Mariana Mazzucato has demonstrated that the real driver of innovation isn’t lone geniuses but state investment. Now she’s working with the UK government, EU and UN to apply her moonshot approach to the world’s biggest challenges.



You don’t just see this smug complacency, this satisfaction with the status quo and the unwillingness to build, in the pandemic, or in healthcare generally. You see it throughout Western life, and specifically throughout American life.



“I can tell you who didn’t make it out. It was the optimists.”



April 18, 2020

Real Time Labor Market Estimates During the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak.



Shirley Valentine changed my life.



Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures.



Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal.’



Democrats are actively ignoring the sexual assault allegations by Tara Reade after hijacking and exploiting the #MeToo movement and other movements (often created by vulnerable women of color who then are never given the credit they deserve by the establishment) for their own gain.



‘I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility.’ Today’s 40-year-olds on the lives they’ve led, and now this.



Another disaster is ready to catch the US unprepared: Drought. Like COVID-19, water insecurity is set to hit the most vulnerable the hardest.



Janus Words.



Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis. The coronavirus pandemic has shown how close to the edge many Americans were living, with pay and benefits eroding even as corporate profits surged.



Age is best explainer of coronavirus infection differences between countries but there is another surprising factor.



Sick, elderly, pregnant: the California renters being evicted even during the pandemic.



Expect civil disobedience and possibly summer riots unless central banks throw money at the grassroots — and not $1200 for 10 weeks: more like $1200 per week.



April 17, 2020

Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known.



These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America.



The Coronavirus Is Killing Food Workers, and Some Customers Aren’t Helping Them Stay Safe.



As the coronavirus lockdown began, the first impulse was to search for historical analogies—1914, 1929, 1941? As the weeks have ground on, what has come ever more to the fore is the historical novelty of the shock that we are living through.



Staggering quantities of food are being destroyed due to coronavirus.



The small business loan program is out of funds.



Introduction to Focus Issue: Causation inference and information flow in dynamical systems: Theory and applications.



Einstein wins again: Star orbits black hole just like GR predicts.



April 16, 2020

Prominent scientists have bad news for the White House about coronavirus antibody tests.



We Sat Down With This Millennial Biden Supporter to See If Their Parents Could Pay Our Rent Too.



First Gulf-wide survey of oil pollution completed 10 years after Deepwater Horizon.



New research helps explain why the solar wind is hotter than expected.



Frontier files for bankruptcy, says its broadband service won’t get any worse.



Policing and the English Language.



Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming. Addressing climate change is a big-enough idea to revive the economy. Indeed.



The early days of home computing – in pictures.



We’ll find a treatment for coronavirus – but drug companies will decide who gets it. The real death panels.



The coronavirus has destroyed the job market in every state. See the per-state jobless numbers and how they’ve changed.



‘Pretty Catastrophic’ Month for Retailers, and Now a Race to Survive.



A few thoughts on where things are likely to go with #COVID19.



The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic.



The Ethics of Predictive Journalism.



Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country.



What prevents people from making friends: A taxonomy of reasons.



How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system.



April 15, 2020

The Next Problem Will Be Food.



Generation C Has Nowhere to Turn. Recent history suggests young people could see their careers derailed, finances shattered, and social lives upended. Will have. Depressions tend to do that.



‘This Is Going to Kill Small-Town America,’ Once the coronavirus reached rural Bristol, N.H., the effect on the local economy was devastating.



Fear and beauty: two weeks living with COVID-19.



Strange interstellar object could be a shard from a dead planet.



The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus crisis. Data show one of the strongest predictors of social distancing behavior is attitudes toward climate change. Fuck people are dumb.



Hey! Let’s check the calibration of some coronavirus forecasts.



America Can Afford a World-Class Health System. Why Don’t We Have One? Our system takes from the poor and working class to generate wealth for the already wealthy.



Charter still hates broadband competition, asks FCC to help prevent it.



This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For. Pop culture has been inundated with catastrophe porn for decades. None of it has prepared us for our new reality.



High-tech calculation produces low-tech, noise-reducing ventilation.



It’s time to talk more seriously about the food supply.



‘It’s a complete abomination’ says Wall Street money manager about hedge funds applying for bailouts from small-business recovery funds.



April 14, 2020

CSA and local produce demands are skyrocketing, but farmers can’t keep up.



How Biogen Became a Coronavirus ‘Superspreader.’



Going to be Tougher for Lots of People to Even Get a Mortgage. Expensive Housing Markets Most Affected.



Next-Gen Nuclear Power. Bold new reactor designs promise safe, clean electricity.



Food Is No Longer Your Fallback Job. It Never Should Have Been in the First Place. It’s time we stop considering these jobs as a backup and start providing dignity to all workers.



The Chickens of Empire Come Home to Roost – Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing.



Some Countries Face an Awful Question: Death by Coronavirus or by Hunger? The pandemic makes it nearly impossible in some places to social distance and to get food at the same time.



Yet for all the aggressive visibility of politics in our daily lives, we’re not that far off from the powerlessness of a cyberpunk future. Cyberpunk speaks to the present because the conditions that inspired cyberpunk remain largely unchanged.



This Absolute Bullshit Would Not Be Possible Without Propaganda.



Why we need a new WPA. Stuff like this being on CNN, you know shit is getting serious.



With working Americans’ survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest.



As Clean as Rage.



No, senator, science can’t do away with models. Here’s why Senator John Cornyn’s critique of modeling is misguided.



How to See the Invisible Universe.



More than 2,200 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, but federal government isn’t tracking them. The numbers are likely a significant undercount, given the limited access to testing and other constraints, state officials and public health experts say.



Blank checks, taboos and bazookas: Inside the global battle to prevent another depression. Too late.



More Than 30 Million Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across the Atlantic to South America.



How the Virus Transformed the Way Americans Spend Their Money.



Climate-Driven Megadrought Is Emerging in Western U.S., Says Study.



April 13, 2020

Perhaps never before has corporate America carried more low-grade debt in relation to its earning power than it does today.



Thank You, Captain Crozier.



For Generation Z, the coronavirus crisis is validation of its liberal politics.