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In defense of the COVID lockdowns. A well-argued case, and I agree mostly, except we never proceeded beyond this and ignores the vast mental health hit.

Wolves Scare Deer and Reduce Auto Collisions 24%, Study Says.

Painting Trees With Light.

The Economy Is Booming. Why Don’t Firms Believe It?

The politics of everyday life: rest.

Oxygen shortages threaten ‘total collapse’ of dozens of health systems.

Inflation ‘surprises’ are ‘almost off the chart’ as data runs hotter than expected.

Sensor-driven turbine platforms could unlock 4,000 TWh of offshore wind.

God, the noise. Reason #1,278,649 why I need my own planet.

The Real Reason Local Newspapers are Dying.

The pandemic has pushed more than 250 public health officials out the door.

I was thinking the other day about some new language we’re all suddenly using. Not new words, but particular phrases. Make space for. And sit with that. And do better. There are a few others that will come to me later, but I ran across a couple of them in a single short piece the other day, and it reminded me how much they bug me.

Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications.

When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go? How extended-stay hotels and motels became the last housing option for thousands of low-income Americans.

Small Businesses Have Surged in Black Communities. Was It the Stimulus?

Eternally five years away? No, batteries are improving under your nose. Under the hood, lithium-ion batteries have gotten better in the last decade.

Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World.

The problem with reinforced concrete.

Ban Big Pickups.

Microscopic fossils record ancient climate conditions.

Despite federal moratorium, eviction rates returning to pre-pandemic levels.

The Mystery of the Watermelon’s Origins May Have Been Solved.

The SUVs and Trucks We Love Are Killing People. I do not love any of them.

In Defense of Ethnoscience. It’s a rare essay that can substantially change my mind on a topic.

Explaining HIPAA: No, it doesn’t ban questions about your vaccination status.

Coronavirus infections drop below 30,000 daily in continuing sign of recovery.

Clawing Our Way Back to Reality.

The Inside Story of How Sweden Botched Its Coronavirus Response.

IMF says $50 billion is needed to end Covid pandemic in 2022. This is within $10 billion of what I calculated, and an absolute bargain.

A Brief History Of Gasoline: A Century And A Half Of Lies.

Scientists spot the most energetic light ever seen. They hint the Milky Way galaxy is full of particle accelerators.

Money creation, debt, and justice.

World-Dominating Superstar Firms Get Bigger, Techier, and More Chinese.

Severe dip in labor market participation by women with kids.

COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Are Looking Beyond the Spike Protein.

This may be the most distorted and perverse housing market ever.

Future Myopia. How do you forge a relationship to a past that considered future generations expendable?

Why studying Uranus and Neptune could help us find habitable planets in other solar systems.

The US government should buy the Greyhound bus company.

Koch Funded Eviction Push While Buying Real Estate Stakes.

Federally Funded Child Care: A Necessity Now Especially.

A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more.

More and more Americans are dying from “diseases of despair,” according to a new study.

How Privilege and Capital Warped a Movement. A Series on George Floyd and America.

Lena.

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