October 22, 2021

Supply-Chain Crisis Fuels Latest Retreat From Globalization.



Afterhours Massacre: Intel Plunges 9% for Other Reasons, Snap Collapses 25%, Takes Down Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google.



October 21, 2021

Dark Matter Alternative Passes Big Test.



Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined.



The Mystery of Why Our Ancestors Left Africa.



Simulating how just a little gender bias in the workplace can lead to big effects up the chain.



The Wall Street Journal and New York Times Censor Yet Another Major News Story on the Fed and the Mega Banks It Supervises.



Embodied intelligence via learning and evolution.



How common are high-risk coronavirus contacts? A video-observational analysis of outdoor public place behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.



Kleroterion.



Backlog of cargo ships at southern California ports reaches an all-time high.



The Era of Climate Sickness Has Arrived.



Welcome to the Everything Game, where if you want to read, write, speak, buy, sell, date, marry, do science, play sports, or do anything else humans do, you will have no choice but to play.



October 20, 2021

‘Equity’ is the new NIMBY.



From childlessness to the climate crisis, why is the blame always on us?



Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and the Proud Boys: How the fragility of the male ego fuels the far-right.



Five Reasons the Child Tax Credit Shouldn’t Have a Work Requirement.



Hit by Shortages, Vehicle & Parts Production Plunged to Lowest since Lockdown. Oil & Gas Has New Script.



Even “low-level” noise is unhealthy: A neuroscientist explains how sound and health are connected. City noise really, really bothers me. Even very light city noise.



America’s strike wave is a rare – and beautiful – sight to behold.



The House Paid Leave Proposal Is Awful.



Disease Eradication.



We Need to Think Harder About Inflation.



October 19, 2021

Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda.



Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink.



The John Deere Strike Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop.



How to Move More Goods Through America’s Clogged Infrastructure? Robot Trains.



It’s bizarre to see a Covid patient deny Covid exists while gasping for breath.



How marsh grass protects shorelines.



How Lithium May Have Led to Serious Obesity for the Pima Beginning around 1937 — Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal. Possible, but a little tenuous?



Adding a Variable Measured with Error to a Regression Only Partially Controls for that Variable.



College Degrees Are Overrated.



October 18, 2021

The continuing case for nuclear energy.



You might think that horror movies are a delicious, trashy pleasure. But watching them has surprisingly wholesome effects.



My father should be in surgery rehab. But with beds full of the unvaccinated, he died in covid quarantine.



Association Between Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Nonimmune Individuals and COVID-19 Immunity in Their Family Members.



New Bond Can’t Take On Beijing’s Supervillains. A whole genre of geopolitical spy thrillers is now off limits.



A whole New World.



The debilitating effects of long Covid have just begun to hit economies.



October 17, 2021

The High-Paid Media Types Are Unhappy Workers Are Getting Higher Pay.



How many lives have coronavirus vaccines saved? We used state data on deaths and vaccination rates to find out.



We’ve spotted a planet surviving its dying star – here’s what it tells us about end of our Solar System.



Neutralizing antibodies derived from the B cells of 1918 influenza pandemic survivors.



Who is the real problem when it comes to climate change?



Achieving equity through mediocrity: Why elimination of gifted programs should worry us all. Libs generally love Harrison Bergeron stuff, especially now.



US wholesale inflation surges to another record.



Climate regulating ocean plants and animals are being destroyed by toxic chemicals and plastics, accelerating our path towards ocean pH 7.95 in 25 years which will devastate humanity.



Iron: an underrated factor in aging.



Abandoned wells are a huge climate problem.



Democrats Are Ready to Abandon Black Voters, Again. And everyone else, too. Except large corporations.



Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Current found to be synchronized on decadal time scale.



Does Covid Cause Significant Brain Harm?



How the American Worker Got Fleeced.



Private Equity Is Quietly Keeping Fossil Fuel Companies in Business.



The Meta Level Doesn’t Justify Itself.



Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate.



But there was one development that had not been expected, and was not tolerable: the large and growing incidence of sexual assaults committed by refugees against local women.



Tales of the New Gilded Age, University Endowments Edition.



October 16, 2021

Out-of-Practice Airline Pilots Are Making Errors Back in the Air.



A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms.



The U.S. Wants to Turn Both Coasts Into Massive Offshore Windfarms.



A Big Bet on Nanotechnology Has Paid Off. The National Nanotechnology Initiative promised a lot. It has delivered more.



Security Risks of Client-Side Scanning.



The Great Resignation Is Accelerating. A lasting effect of this pandemic will be a revolution in worker expectations.



What I’ve Seen With Your Eyes: The Influences of ‘Blade Runner.’



October 15, 2021

Long days and low pay already hurt service-sector workers. But since the pandemic, angry customers and staff shortages have made things even harder.



Why We Need a Working-Class Media.



China’s solar power has reached price parity with coal. Hey ya’ll, remember when we were told that would “never happen?” I do!



Mix-and-match COVID boosters are as good—if not better than—all the same shots.



How Microsoft Privatized Open Source.



Average U.S. Consumer Debt Reaches New Record in 2020.



Rents are rising ‘ominously’ fast as tenants see biggest increase in 20 years.



Merck wants Americans to pay $712 for a Covid drug that taxpayers helped develop.



The climate disaster is here.



Clearing Up Some Myths About Victorian ‘Postmortem’ Photographs.



How highly processed foods harm memory in the aging brain.



We need to talk about how Apple is normalising surveillance. Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us.



How a mass extinction resulted in the rise of the snakes.



Obesity Rates Rise During Pandemic, Fueled By Stress, Job Loss, Sedentary Lifestyle.



October 14, 2021

Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic center. A variable signal aligned to the heart of the Milky Way is tantalising scientists.



Woman rocked awake by meteorite chunk crashing into her bedroom.



Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is? What it Means When I Say America is the World’s First Poor Rich Country. Oh yeah, a lot of us know.



COVID lesson: trust the public with hard truths. When governments assume that people will panic, that exacerbates the pandemic.



What’s Driving Gen Z’s Aversion to Sex?



Consumer prices rise at 5.4% yearly pace in September and stay at 30-year high.



An Ocean Away, I Found Some Common Sense on Mask Wearing.



If your business model depends on underpaying your workers for the labour they do, then your business model depends on stealing money from your workers.



The best- and worst-case scenarios for Covid-19 this winter.



The economic cost of Republican tantrums: GOP customers are chasing workers out of their jobs.



California to ban gas lawn mowers, leaf blowers.



Want to add healthy years to your life? Here’s what new longevity research says.



The problem with America’s semi-rich. America’s upper-middle class works more, optimizes their kids, and is miserable.



Entering the Acceptance Phase of the Pandemic.



October 13, 2021

Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing.



From dinner parties to “thanks for helping me move” pizza, I grieve for communal food experiences. Lockdown lifers are loving it though.



Americans, Don’t Envy European Speech Codes.



how the Microsoft MFA system almost brought me to a complete nervous breakdown. Yes, it is indeed dreadfully bad.



How hot is it inside Southern California’s warehouses? Ask the workers at Rite Aid.



Stop the Debt Ceiling Nonsense.



Democrats negotiate over whether to shoot themselves in the foot. Oh, they’re gonna. They always do.