November 22, 2021

There’s a simple reason companies are able to pass these price hikes onto us: they face no competition.



Herpesviruses steal one cell’s protein, use it to infect another.



More Americans say they’re not planning to have a child, new poll says, as U.S. birthrate declines.



Welcome to the golden age of scammers.



With poor nations only 5 percent vaccinated, wealthy nations need to look in the mirror.



November 21, 2021

Designing Transport for Humans, Not Econs.



The Unfulfilled Promise of Serverless.



The ‘Zelle Fraud’ Scam: How it Works, How to Fight Back.



Norway Is Running Out of Gas-Guzzling Cars to Tax.



The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing.



Heroes Aren’t Saints.



Where computing might go next.



Why the History of Science Should Matter to Scientists.



London Rental Opportunity: The Most Pathetic, Squalid Landlord Move Yet.



November 20, 2021

We know what invasive species can do on Earth—what about in space?



Hidden Spy Camera Detection using Smartphone Time-of-Flight Sensors.



I’m Confused Why All These People Are Quitting Jobs That Pay No Money and Make Them Want to Die.



Congress Is Facilitating “Catastrophic Risk” by Allowing Federally-Insured Banks to Be Owned by Wall Street’s Trading Houses.



The Cost of Being a Woman.



Flight attendants’ jobs have never been more dangerous. If I see anyone hassling a flight attendant, I will definitely hospitalize them. At best.



What Happens After the Worst of the Pandemic Is Behind Us?



Is Protecting Copyright More Important Than Saving Lives During The COVID-19 Pandemic?



Computer simulations show that black holes with massive accretion disks will generate precious metals like gold.



Why Are So Many Unmarried Young Adults Not Having Sex?



Reality Disappointment.



Part of the ‘great resignation’ is actually just mothers forced to leave their jobs.



[2103.06226] The Taming of Plutonium: Pu Metallurgy and the Manhattan Project.



This Is What Happens When One Climate Disaster Follows Another.



The moral case for destroying fossil fuel infrastructure.



On periods, and the dudes who fear them.



Manufacturing Consensus. Science needs conformity — but not the kind it has right now.



Pop psychology has killed the villain.



Over a Million Americans May Have Permanently Lost Their Sense of Smell to Covid-19.



The Second Death of Jiao Yulu.



New Covid Drugs Are Here—and They Could Change the Pandemic.



November 19, 2021

We are all frail. We should be able to acknowledge that disabilities can cause pain and suffering without disabled people feeling dehumanised.



The Risk-Return Trade-Off Is Phony.



Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming.



The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins.



Why Mastercard’s New Porn Rules Should Scare Everyone.



A “T-cell priming” vaccine could provide better COVID-19 immunity than mRNA vaccines.



The right-wing culture war just got worse. Liberals need a better response.



People have a right to be upset about inflation.



Since 2008, Monetary Policy Has Cost American Savers about $4 Trillion.



The body is not a machine. Modern biomedicine sees the body as a closed mechanistic system. But illness shows us to be permeable, ecological beings.



November 18, 2021

Corporate America, the Market’s Big Stock Buyer, Has $1 Trillion to Spend.



How Hospitals Became Vaults That Hid Evidence of Covid-19’s Toll.



Voters in west divided more by identity than issues, survey finds.



US saw 100,000 drug overdose deaths in one year amid pandemic, CDC says.



A Tough Love Guide to Getting Over the End of Daylight Savings. I will never get over it.



We Need to Talk About Values of the White Community.



The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says.



November 17, 2021

Individuals matter.



The Infrastructure Bill May Not Be So Historic After All. No, it’s mostly crap.



The Worst of Both Worlds: Zooming From the Office.



Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare. That’s the future for all of us.



Massive Price Increases & Overstimulated Demand Fuel Historic Surge in Retail Sales.



Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports.



Almost 20 Million Years Ago, Sharks Nearly Went Extinct — Nobody Knows Why.



November 16, 2021

Bringing the Supply Chain Back Home.



Renewable Energy Could Pay the Price for Fuel Crisis.



Covid vaccine holdouts are caving to mandates — then scrambling to ‘undo’ their shots. That is some deep cluelessness there.



How Does This End? Thinking about Covid and normalcy.



The long-lasting effects of workplace sexual harassment.



Einstein’s Philosophy of Science.



Conservatives don’t favor small government.



The Gilded Age Bone Wars have their echoes in today’s vaccine patent waiver fight.



Pleasure Needs No Politics. Not everything you enjoy must be “an act of resistance.” I can hear prude liberals crying big tears.



November 15, 2021

What happens when you put 926 random Americans in a room and tell them to solve the climate crisis.



‘It feels like it’s never-ending’: Prolonged exposure to high inflation leaves people with anxiety — and weird shopping habits.



Biden’s approval ratings continue to plunge amid crisis over inflation. Jimmy Carter II.



Inflation Becomes a Political Bitch for Democrats as People’s Mood Sours amid Biggest Fed-Fueled Boom for the Wealthy.



The Austrian government ordered a nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated people starting Monday to slow the fast spread of the coronavirus in the country. Should be done everywhere.



Shirley Cards.



Record Churn & Quits among Workers as Employers Desperate to Fill Huge Number of Job Openings.



Why Disaster Happens at the Edges: An Introduction to Queue Theory.



The 50th anniversary of the launch of the Intel 4004 microprocessor.



November 14, 2021

How Sweden swerved Covid disaster.



The Emily Ratajkowski You’ll Never See. I probably will not read Ratajkowski’s book, but that is a well-written profile.



Study finds a striking difference between neurons of humans and other mammals.



Open-sourcing of protein-structure software is already paying off.



In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas.



Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard.



What would a garden look like if it were designed from a pollinator’s perspective, rather than ours?



November 11, 2021

State of the American Debt Slaves: Foreclosure Bans, Forbearance, Delinquencies & Soaring Prices of Everything.



The Question We’ve Stopped Asking About Teen-Agers and Social Media.



Quit Whining & Start Presidenting! Joe Biden’s executive branch has the ability AND obligation to enforce laws limiting corporate misbehavior–which would also be overdue good politics.



It’s Time to End Murder by Spreadsheet.



Paleontologists Unearth the Oldest Evidence of Herd Behavior in Dinosaurs.



The Quiet Scientific Revolution That May Solve Chronic Pain.



Natsec is how America gets things done. Like it or not, defense considerations are how we provide public goods.



Animals of the Future. Lizards’ feet are morphing, squid are shrinking, rats’ teeth are getting shorter. What’s in store for us?



The Latest Version Of Congress’s Anti-Algorithm Bill Is Based On Two Separate Debunked Myths & A Misunderstanding Of How Things Work.



Barack Obama has a nerve preaching about the climate crisis.



Inflation is real; now it’s up to the Fed.



How 12th-century Genoese merchants invented the idea of risk.



Hollywood Has Forgotten What a Good Action Movie Looks Like.



Proposed illegal image detectors on devices are ‘easily fooled.’



Explaining the energy dilemma of 2021- the 2014 shock and the global energy business.



November 10, 2021

Corporations Ready to Resume Donating to Pro-Coup Republicans. One of the reasons is because they know the next coup will be successful.