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A just-issued report by the US Federal Trade Commission confirms that anti-repair actions by large companies are hurting small businesses, undermining your ownership rights, and hurting the planet.

The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics.

Broadband Companies Paid For 8.5 Million Fake Net Neutrality Comments, New York AG Reports.

Finding it Hard to Hire? Try Raising Your Wages.

The Sexist Backlash to Universal Day Care.

How most of the West got the pandemic so badly wrong?

Texas is about to allow residents to carry handguns without a license or training.

‘No one wants to work anymore’: the truth behind this unemployment benefits myth.

‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation.

Team directs and measures quantum drum duet.

Facebook and Big Pharma exploited disease “awareness” for personalized marketing.

It’s good Biden is suspending vaccine patents. But the whole rotten system needs overhaul. US tax dollars helped create the Moderna vaccine – and 59% of Americans say Moderna share its vaccine technology with manufacturers worldwide.

Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid? It’s Zeynep, so you know you gotta read it.

How the pandemic took the concept of universal basic income out of Silicon Valley’s hands—and turned it into something far more radical.

Congress is finally investigating the lab accident covid-19 origin theory.

Obscura No More. How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center.

Major Depressive Disorders Have an Enormous Economic Impact. Their prevalence has more than tripled during the pandemic, but the trends were already troubling long before it arrived.

Honeywell Admits Sending F-35, F-22 Part Drawings To China. Alrighty then.

“You deserve whatever you get.” That’s really what we mean by merit, today, isn’t it?

Studies of hospital workers suggest COVID-19 vaccines really do prevent coronavirus infections. Shocking no one but dumbasses.

Biden administration looks to triple amount of protected land in the U.S..

Ithaca.

Haldane’s rule.

How the novel coronavirus attacks the brain.

How to Summarize a Big Chunk of Nutrition Research: Almost Anything You Are Likely to Think Of Is Better Than the Standard American Diet.

U.S. Vows To Invade Next Country That Asks For Covid Vaccine IP.

Next Generation of Covid-19 Vaccines Could Be Pill or Spray.

Rare blood clots up to 10 times more likely from COVID-19 infection than from Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Covid Destroyed the Illusion of the Restaurant Industry.

How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it.

Rich people have enormous carbon footprints. But the fundamental problem with their climate impact isn’t what they consume — it’s that they own the means of production, and it’s extremely profitable for them to pollute.

Leaked Slides Show the Gas Industry Is Freaking Out.

FDR’s Second 100 Days Were Cooler Than His First 100 Days.

The Booming U.S. Recovery Is Leaving Some Communities Completely Behind.

Processed Foods Are Much Worse Than We Thought.

Pesticides Threaten the ‘Foundations of the Web of Life,’ New Soil Study Warns.

The COVID Culture War Will Never End.

Vaccination as a social contract.

The Lie of ‘No One Wants to Work.’

A blood test may help the diagnosis and treatment of depression.

We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving.

What Is An ‘Internal Wave’? It Might Explain The Loss Of An Indonesian Submarine.

Why some people don’t experience vaccine side-effects, and why it’s not a problem.

Abandoning Taiwan Makes Zero Moral or Strategic Sense.

America’s Covid-19 endgame could be much closer than you think. America’s vaccine campaign may not be too far off from getting Covid-19 under control.

Intel & TSMC on Chip Shortage: After Blowing $84 Billion on Share Buybacks since 2011 and Now Woefully Behind, Intel Clamors for $50 Billion in Subsidies for US Chip Industry.

The Era of Mass Vaccinations Is Ending.

Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed. The label “low-skill” flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the jobs they do.

Auto Makers Retreat From 50 Years of ‘Just in Time’ Manufacturing.

Streams and lakes have rights, a US county decided. Now they’re suing Florida. Go streams! Get the fish involved too.

Selling Out Transit To Rideshares Will Be A Disaster.

Trucks Get Parked Over Air Force Nuclear Missile Silos During Tests… Just In Case.

Vaccine Passports Are a Reality, Whatever They’re Called. It will be impossible to escape some proof of immunity to reengage in activities such as education, travel and entertainment. Bring ’em on. Stat.

Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity. An increase of 10 dB reduces productivity by approximately 5%.

Delusions of Dominance.

The First PC to Sell Millions: Commodore VIC-20 Turns 40.

Will Schools Open in the Fall? We look at how the lack of normal schooling is hurting mothers.

The road from Rome. The fall of the Roman Empire wasn’t a tragedy for civilisation. It was a lucky break for humanity as a whole.

This case study examines the failed attempt of atomic scientists to establish international control of nuclear weapons and what this failure tells us about the divisions between modern science and politics.

Within the moderately and highly active persons, sports participants experienced only half the mortality of nonparticipants. Bicycling to work decreased risk of mortality in approximately 40% after multivariate adjustment, including leisure time physical activity.

One Vaccine to Rule Them All. What if a single vaccine could protect us against SARS, MERS, COVID-19, and every other coronavirus-related disease, forever and ever. Very likely IMO.

The 11th Reason to Delete your Social Media Account: the Algorithm will Find You.

It’s set to be a hot, violent summer.

India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing.

Is the Labor Theory of Value useful at all? Can we salvage anything from this muddled concept?

How the US won the economic recovery.

Researchers discover the mechanism that likely generates huge white dwarf magnetic fields.

The Army’s New Night-Vision Goggles Look Like Technology Stolen From Alien.

All hail King Khalid and his falcon-hunting monster wagon. A vehicle truly fit for a galactic overlord.

The eggs files: why hens are at the centre of modern science. I had no idea these might be hen-drance to vaccine production.

Big pharma lobby’s self-serving claims block global access to vaccines.

UK Researchers Will Try to Reinfect People With the Coronavirus, for Science.

The Fort Bragg Murders.

Having a son decreases support for feminist and egalitarian gender attitudes in both men and women to varying degrees across a variety of dimensions.

Experimental Evidence for Sex Differences in Sexual Variety Preferences: Support for the Coolidge Effect in Humans.

The Golden Age of Fraud is Upon Us.

Ford’s ever-smarter robots are speeding up the assembly line.

How science has been corrupted. The pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise.

Applying our suggested specification to German panel data we find a (nearly monotonic) declining age happiness trajectory.

Free-Money Stimmies Blow Out Consumer Income & Spending on Goods for a Glorious WTF Chart of the Year.

The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes. The agency’s new guidelines are too timid and too complicated.

Anxiety Is the Real Cause of Fainting That Was Linked to Covid-19 Vaccines, CDC Experts Say.

Heavy water tastes sweeter.

Face masks were 79% effective in preventing transmission, if they were used by all household members prior to symptoms occurring.

There Is Growing Segregation In Millennial Wealth.

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