January 12, 2022

Hottest ocean temperatures in history recorded last year.



How School Closures Made Me Question My Progressive Politics.



Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary.



Late bloomer: the exquisite craft of Mary Delany.



Plasma stealth. I need this.



Why Grocery Store Shelves Are Bare. Again.



Exercise Can Boost Brain Health Even in People Who Already Have Signs of Dementia.



Colors: Where did they go? An investigation. Why do so many TV shows and movies look like they were filmed in a gray wasteland?



United CEO says vaccine mandate appears to have ended weekly deaths of employees from Covid.



Sixty Years Ago, NASA Scientists Found That Women Would Be Better Astronauts. Their Work Was Never Published.



January 11, 2022

Denial has left many Democrats stuck on a national strategy with little hope of near-term success.



US emissions roared back last year after pandemic drop, figures show.



How Soon Will COVID Be “Normal”?



Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed.



Last seven years the hottest on record, 2021 data shows.



Manchin’s Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew.



T cells from common colds can protect against coronavirus infection, study finds.



Why More Americans Are Saying They’re ‘Vaxxed and Done’



Locked public restrooms are the ultimate sign of urban decay.



January 9, 2022

Stars may form 10 times faster than thought.



How to Opt Out of Verizon’s Custom Experience Tracking.



This Life: faith, work, and free time.



Stars from ancient cluster found in the Milky Way.



January 6, 2022

The cruel, ridiculous reality of ‘virtual learning.’ Shannon Proudfoot: What does online school actually look like? It’s an impossible balancing act that’s ruining kids and parents alike. Get in your pod and be quiet now.



Healing America’s Fractured Politics Starts in the Industrial Heartland.



Workers See Their New Power, Quit in Record Numbers to Get Better Jobs at Companies Struggling to Fill 10.6 Million Openings.



140 Series Starters and Stand-Alones for 2022.



Roughly two-thirds of patients who have tested positive at hospitals run by the L.A. County Department of Health Services were admitted for something other than the coronavirus, according to Health Services Director Dr. Christina Ghaly.



Video shows police dog severely mauls Uber driver who missed car payments.



I have contrarian ideas on intellectual property. I’ve come to think that the natural home of ideas is in the commons, that they should not be “owned” for very long.



Omicron is dying fast in South Africa.



January 5, 2022

Where does our deeply fractured country go from here?



We Are Beast Machines. We understand conscious experiences only in light of our nature as living creatures.



The most important computer you’ve never heard of. How SAGE jumpstarted today’s technology and built IBM into a powerhouse. Heard of it, but I’m just like that.



The next US civil war is already here – we just refuse to see it.



Lab Leak 2.0.



The new Mercedes EQS locks you out from opening the hood.



No Way to Grow Up. For the past two years, Americans have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults.



More workers quit than ever as U.S. job openings remain near a record.



U-Haul Growth Index: Florida has 10 of Top 25 U.S. Growth Cities.



January 4, 2022

web3 is centralized. And fucking moronic.



Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.



Prepare for Right-Wing U.S. Dictatorship Before 2030, Scholar Urges Canada.



The Bill for My Homelessness Was $54,000.



Book Review: “Viral” by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley.



The Second Drone Age Is Here and It’s a Free-For-All.



What I See for 2022: Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Stocks & Other Assets as Central Banks Face Raging Inflation.



There are intellectually honest people who don’t know what the normal distribution is. There are no intellectually honest people who, not knowing what it is, figure that it must be something racist.



NASA might just pull off the James Webb Space Telescope deployment.



January 2, 2022

Intranasal inhibitor blocks omicron and other variants of SARS-CoV-2.



Understanding Viruses. A good very basic 101.



Farewell to 2021, the stupidest year in American history.



Studies Suggest Why Omicron Is Less Severe: It Spares the Lungs.



Corporate Profits Drive 60% of Inflation Increases.



New data on using J&J vaccine to boost itself. Two draft manuscripts look at long term protections offered by this vaccine.



A Capitalist is a Capitalist No Matter Which Political Party They Join.



Fed Drains $1.9 Trillion in Liquidity from Market via Overnight Reverse Repos.



US experts question whether counting Covid cases is still the right approach.



Un an après l’élection de Joe Biden, la colère anti-establishment demeure une question centrale aux Etats-Unis.