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February 5, 2022

Don’t Blame Putin for Europe’s Energy Crisis. Regardless of Russia’s gas cutbacks, Europe’s own policies have made shortages and price spikes the new normal.

The global price of food is skyrocketing.

Simpson’s paradox.

Accidents Waiting to Happen. The folly of blaming individuals for fatalities that could have been prevented.

February 4, 2022

The Depressing Rise of ‘Wordcels’ and ‘Numbercels.’

The Unnerving Rise of Video Games that Spy on You.

Tell the Copyright Office Who Is Really Affected by Filters.

Two or more chronic health problems in middle age ‘doubles dementia risk.’

Race-Based Rationing Is Real—And Dangerous. The cultural left’s worldview is beginning to distort health policy.

With vaccines available mask mandates are not necessary in school.

Back when the sun was 30% dimmer, Earth should have frozen solid. Yet water flowed and life blossomed. The solution to the paradox shows that we might have that faint sun to owe for life’s existence — with critical consequences for the possibility of life outside Earth.

The Titans of Junk Debt Turned Trash Into Bond-Market Treasure.

Why do we make it so expensive to be a doctor or a nurse? Makes the right people rich, keeps others debt slaves.

There’s a New Surveillance State. It’s Your Neighbor.

February 3, 2022

How to Mislead with Facts.

Metrics Mislead.

How to sell Georgism to the middle class. We need to tax land. But the wealth of the middle class is mostly in land. How do we untie this knot.

How the Tumblr Snowflakes Won. The soft, sad freaks on an unprofitable website claimed victory in the battle for the internet’s soul and defined the worldview of a generation.

Democrats need to take the Median Voter Theorem more seriously.

U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries. That’s what anti-vaxxers will do for you.

Why It Could Be Years Until We See a Normal Housing Market.

Dreams and kindness are all we have.

An Ancient Disaster. Researchers present evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed a biblical city in the Jordan Valley.

“The System Is Broken”: Boots-on-the-Ground View by a US Manufacturer on the Supply Chain Chaos.

For T-cells, omicron is nothing unusual.

February 2, 2022

How We Broke the Supply Chain.

Americans have burnout on top of burnout on top of burnout. Now what?

The idea that “this time is different” is always a warning to run for the hills. On Wall Street, nothing is new under the sun.

What the Conversation Around the “Great Resignation” Leaves Out. You can’t talk about labor without talking about care work.

Misogyny is in Facebook’s DNA.

The Milky Way: An Electrifying View.

Despite Labor Shortages, Workers See Few Gains in Economic Security.

Economic segregation in schools has worsened, widening achievement gaps, study says.

February 1, 2022

Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 boosters against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) infection in Qatar.

A Government Study Shows that Wall Street Megabanks Have Dramatically Shifted their Derivative Exposure to Corporations.

How the Hall Effect Still Reverberates. In 1879, a physicist set the stage for efficient space propulsion.

Girl groups that made the Beatles. This person know what they are talking about. That’s rare.

Scientists Are Creating ‘Synthetic Dimensions’ to Probe Limits of 4D Reality.

Scientists Identify 224 New Species in Mekong Region.

In defense of small joys.

Let Kids Take Their Masks Off After the Omicron Surge.

11 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets.

Global count estimates Earth has 73,000 tree species – 14% more than reported.

The age of intimacy famine.

Please make a dumb car.

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