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Homes with gas stoves can contain approximately 50 to 400 percent higher concentrations of NO2 than homes with electric stoves, often resulting in levels of indoor air pollution that would be illegal outdoors.

The radical mysticism of identitarian reductionism.

The Money Men Could Save Us. But They’re Stuck in the Seventies. (And, unfortunately, yes, they mostly are men.)

Earth’s New Gilded Era. The world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger.

The American Mortgage Is An Investment In Racial Inequality.

We Can’t Ignore Rural Voter Resentment.

The COVID response is missing an obvious cadre of experts. People trained in public health — who are not necessarily physicians — should handle public health crises.

From everything we can see, re-infection is a very rare event. I’d expect some re-infection because this happens with almost every virus.

8 Million Have Slipped Into Poverty Since May as Federal Aid Has Dried Up.

Julian Assange faces the ‘trial of the century’: 10 reasons why it threatens freedom of speech.

Proprietary Grapes Come With Draconian End User License Agreement.

Republican Judges Are Quietly Upending Public Health Laws. A catastrophic sequence of decisions has blocked states from responding to the pandemic.

Trump treats essential workers as expendable, and many Americans are following his dangerous lead.

The Modern Lives of Ancient Symbols.

A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but who can’t find one — is unemployed. If you accept that definition, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is a stunning 26.1%.

We can’t let the WTO get in the way of a ‘people’s vaccine.’

The economics of vending machines.

Thirty-year failure to tackle preventable disease fuelling global Covid pandemic, Study reveals increase in high blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and obesity, all risk factors for disease.

Inside the Fall of the CDC.

$5 Billion Lawsuit Accuses Google of Tracking Users’ Private Internet Activity.

The Five Deadly Sins of the Left.

10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection.

The history of Satanic Panic in the US — and why it’s not over yet. Some of the victims of mass hysteria over satanic ritual abuse are still serving sentences.

Why Liberals Pretend They Have No Power.

COVID Models: What the Pandemic Has in Store for the World.

An extra artery in the human arm is a sign we’re “still evolving,” study says. The presence of the median artery in the arm has become more prevalent in the last few centuries, scientists say.

Cisco Delays Next-Gen Office Phone for 20th Consecutive Year. Only IT nerds will really get this one.

Gender-Role Ideology and Height Preference in Mate Selection.

The Key to the Productivity Puzzle.

New Gender-Inclusive USB Standards Rename Connectors to Dom and Sub.

The Fruits and Vegetables Used to Create Gory Horror Movie Sounds.

AI is an Ideology, Not a Technology. At its core, “artificial intelligence” is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.

Sweden’s gamble.

Grim new analyses spotlight just how hard US is failing in pandemic. High death rates, large death toll, mental health crisis, and economic ruin.

Where Remote Work Saves Commuters Most.

Why the Trump Administration Doesn’t Want to Help. The pandemic recession is wildly uneven. Wealthy people are doing just fine. Hourly workers are not.

Brooklyn’s Anti-masking Protests Betray a Broken Culture. The demonstrations say less about one particular community than they do about the brokenness of the American condition.

The Data Show a Bleak Outlook for Global Economic Growth.

The Pandemic Was Even Deadlier Than We Thought This Spring and Summer.

Rest When You’re Dead. Economic security in old age is a fading dream.

Obama’s Words. Were fucking worthless drivel.

Economics is a disgrace.

America’s true unemployment rate.

The Limits of Phenomenology.

The Atlantic Ocean Hasn’t Been This Hot in at Least 2,900 Years.

‘Shutdown is literally killing people’: families of isolated nursing home residents demand compromise.

Scarlet fever is making a comeback after being infected with a toxic virus, researchers say.

Making Sense of the Unknown.

Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PC demand hits biggest growth in more than a decade thanks to the pandemic.

The giant Megalodon shark was three times as big as a great white, new measurements show.

Some wrong lessons people will learn from the president’s illness, hospitalization, and expected recovery.

Mapped: America’s $2 Trillion Economic Drop, by State and Sector.

Colleges Are Fueling the Pandemic in a Classic Market Failure.

COVID-19 Might Not Change the World. Pandemics are not always transformative events. While some worrying preexisting trends could accelerate, it’s incorrect to assume that the coronavirus will end globalization, kill liberal democracy, or enhance China’s soft power.

New ‘frozen dragon’ pterosaur found hiding in plain sight. The flying reptile was mostly head and neck—and had at least a 16-foot wingspan, if not bigger.

Feds may target Google’s Chrome browser for breakup.

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record. After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.

A 540 million year-old microscopic protist sex mystery is solved. How tiny, shelled protists reproduce helps explain their strange evolutionary patterns.

No, the Nazis Were Not Socialists.

Cambridge Analytica Controversy Mostly Nothing. I said this at the time.

Group Most Likely to Get Covid-19 Is Least Likely to Die From It.

So, what are the strategies to deal with coronavirus before an effective vaccine arrives? The answer cannot just be locking down continually, given the large economic and social costs this involves.

In 3 large international prospective studies including ∼177,000 individuals, 12,701 deaths, and 13,658 CVD events from 50 countries in 6 continents, we did not find significant associations between egg intake and blood lipids, mortality, or major CVD events.

Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet. And nastiest.

Citigroup Is Slapped with a $400 Million Fine for Doing Something So Bad It Can’t Be Spoken Out Loud.

“Pack” the Supreme Court? Absolutely 100% yes — it’s the only way to save democracy.

Why the hidden world of fungi is essential to life on Earth.

We already know how to keep the next pandemic from catching us off guard. Have known this for 50+ years, still failed.

The American Dream Is For Rent. The largest rental-home owner inks a $1 billion joint venture.

The problem is simple: once censorship gets going it doesn’t just stay with the people you want hit. Everyone who doesn’t have the power to protect themselves gets censored, and, children, people in power hate the left FAR more than the right.

Frontier’s Bankruptcy Shows Why ISPs Shouldn’t Be in Charge of the Internet.

Patients wait months for specialty treatment at L.A. hospitals. About those death panels….

The Girl-Watching Fad of the 1960s. This is nearly forgotten now.

Capitalism Is Broken. The Fix Begins With a Free Covid-19 Vaccine. Capitalism is working as designed.

Superhabitable Planets.

A Prayer for Archimedes. A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.

Bad balance: why dangerous falls are on the rise around the world.

The Impact of Vocalization Loudness on COVID-19 Transmission in Indoor Spaces.

Less than 11% of people with federal student debt are repaying their loans during Covid.

Eli Lilly says its monoclonal antibody cocktail is effective in treating Covid-19.

The moral emotions of liberal democracy.

Trillions of extra economic damages predicted in new study of climate change effects.

Mysterious ‘ghost’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors.

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show.

His Landlord Evicted Him During The Pandemic And Then Demanded $1,100 For Him To Get His Belongings.

Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program. Employers will be required to pay the high-skilled foreign workers significantly higher wages.

While cities like New York and London have let their public housing fall into disrepair, Paris is building and renovating more than ever – including in the most upscale neighbourhoods. But despite the city’s best efforts, many Paris residents are being priced out.

The Clock Is Ticking on America’s ‘Feral Swine Bomb.’

100,000 Stars.

This Socialite Hated Washing Dishes So Much That She Invented the Automated Dishwasher.

On several Marxist themes in “Capitalism, Alone”: My reply to Romaric Godin’s review.

The Lights Blink Out One By One. On trying to see history from the perspective of a participant.

The Problem of Surplus White Men. Dispossessed white men have haunted Western politics for generations. The answer isn’t to jettison “identity politics” — it’s to create truly meaningful new opportunities.

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutations. A SARS-CoV-2 variant carrying the Spike protein amino acid change D614G has become the most prevalent form in the global pandemic.

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