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Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330,000 U.S. Lives during COVID. The numbers of lives lost and dollars spent would have been significantly lower if coverage had been extended to everyone, a new study says.

One in Five Americans Struggles to Read. We Want to Understand Why.

That Was Fast: 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rate Spikes to 6.18%, 10-Year Treasury Yield to 3.43%. Home Sellers Face New Reality. Something has to give. And it’s going to be price.

“Jurassic World: Dominion” is not a movie. It’s a museum. With the only thing new Chris Pratt’s tan, the blockbuster is the latest in our era of deep nostalgia.

Powell Lets Wall Street Pay Skyrocket While Targeting Workers’ Wages.

Over 100m Americans urged to stay indoors over extreme heat and humidity.

My experience returning to zero-COVID China shows what happens when an unfettered state is allowed free rein, unchecked by law or civil society.

Home sellers are cutting list prices as more buyers take pause: ‘The market is not the same.’

Regular use of glucosamine was significantly related with decreased risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality, based on data from this nationwide prospective cohort study.

India isn’t ready for a deadly combination of heat and humidity.

U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6%. “Transitory.”

How delivery riders in Bangkok have ditched algorithms for the human touch of an alternative system.

Housing market crisis is making boomers richer and millennials poorer.

Computers are an inherently oppressive technology. Inherently? No. But when the rest of society is structured to oppression, compies will be too.

Social War (91–87 BC).

US can’t afford fall boosters for all—even after cuts to test and PPE spending. We can afford them — we just chose not to pay for them. There is a difference.

Plan climat de l’Union européenne : le Parlement vote pour l’interdiction de la vente de voitures thermiques neuves à partir de 2035.

How San Francisco Became a Failed City.

After Free Trade. As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.

What “freedom” means to Republicans.

Placing new limits on the interior of neutron stars.

How Bad Is the Global Food Crisis Going to Get?

What if Putin’s true goals are different? Worth thinking about, even though I doubt it.

When DRM Comes For Your Wheelchair.

Why JSON isn’t a Good Configuration Language.

When Shipping Containers Sink in the Drink.

Many researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement: mixed-methods study.

The Vindication of Cheese, Butter, and Full-Fat Milk. A new study exonerates dairy fats as a cause of early death, even as low-fat products continue to be misperceived as healthier.

Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life’s origin on Earth—and maybe Mars.

New study shows welfare prevents crime, quite dramatically.

COVID-19 cases are on the rise. Does it matter anymore? Nope.

How the Internet Is Like a Dying Star.

Remote work is fueling economic growth

The Office Monsters Are Trying to Claw Their Way Back to 2019. Some corporate leaders are grasping at whatever they can to get back to the way things were. But they might find themselves fighting a culture shift beyond their control.

The first US offshore wind farm has had no negative effect on fish, finds groundbreaking study.

There will be no gun control: For many white Americans, the idea of the gun is all they have left.

The ‘November Rain’ music video defined a generation. Inside its ‘bonkers’ production. I remember when that video came on MTV about 20 times a day.

Gasoline Spikes to Nearly $5 US Average, Diesel to $5.70. Crude Oil WTI Jumps to $119. Inflation Not in the Mood of Peaking Yet.

Shipping Chaos Is the Latest Sign that Capitalism Is Eating Itself. Capitalism rests on a network of privately-owned infrastructure, with shipping at its heart – but now the industry is in chaos as the profiteering of rentier corporations sends the world system into meltdown.

The cost of complexity in supply chains.

Biden Waives Solar Panel Tariffs, Seeks To Boost Production.

Anti-abortion activists are collecting the data they’ll need for prosecutions post-Roe. Hey, another one of those things I was told could “never happen” happening! Imagine that.

The jury verdict in the Depp-Heard case: A telling, deserved blow to the #MeToo witch-hunt.

How Did It Happen?: The Great Inflation of the 1970s and Lessons for Today.

Twilight of the NIMBY. Suburban homeowners like Susan Kirsch are often blamed for worsening the nation’s housing crisis. That doesn’t mean she’s giving up her two-decade fight against 20 condos

Overweight people lost 35 to 52 pounds on newly approved diabetes drug, study says.

It’s Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message. Fuck yes.

He moved to Hong Kong in 2020. The ‘zero-Covid’ strategy pushed him to move again. Wise.

This 830-million-year-old crystal might contain life. And we’re about to open it.

Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show.

LSD microdosing does not appear to improve mood or cognitive ability, according to new placebo-controlled study.

Seen from space, the snow-capped Alps are going green.

Solar and wind keep getting cheaper as the field becomes smarter.

Suddenly Here Comes the Inventory: Homes Listed for Sale Jump amid Price Reductions and Sagging Sales.

NASA’s Mars MAVEN spacecraft spent 3 months on the brink of disaster.

Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores.

Denmark votes to join EU common defense after 30 years of opting out.

Biden Hikes Medicare Prices And Funnels Profits to Private Insurers.

U.S. policymakers misjudged inflation threat until it was too late.

We cannot adapt our way out of climate crisis, warns leading scientist.

America’s first modern mass shooting never really ended.

Why Are Police So Bad at Their Jobs?

How John Deere leverages repair-blocking into gag orders.

The Characteristics of the First Women to Become Army Rangers.

Psychological benefits of believing conspiracy theories.

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is a giant middle finger to bosses everywhere.

We may already be falling into the same trap of pandemic unpreparedness. May? LOL.

A new phase in America’s white-hot housing market: Desperate renters facing bidding wars.

Dreaded Commute to the City Is Keeping Offices Mostly Empty. Urban areas where people live closer to work have a higher return-to-office rate, WSJ analysis shows.

Is anyone still paying attention to COVID-19 trends?

Only a fraction of the world’s stories have survived. What might we be missing?

How Many Well Intentioned People Dehumanise Children.

‘Lunchflation’ is real. Returning to the office is costing us a fortune.

A new study conducted by 23andMe Holding Co. found that people who have previously reported depression or anxiety or cardiometabolic diseases like Type 2 diabetes are at higher risk of being diagnosed with long COVID.

Inflation is caused by too little capacity.

Frustrated with delays, doctors take aim at prior authorization. Physicians say the process to get approval from insurance companies before treating patients has gotten out of hand.

Evolution appears to occur far faster than we thought, study finds.

The folly of “off-ramps.” When Ukraine wins the war, Putin will build his own.

America Turned the Greatest Vehicle of Social Mobility Into a Debt Machine.

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy. Democracy is done in the US for a while.

1.1 quintillion operations per second: US has world’s fastest supercomputer.

Rent Prices Increased By More Than $1,000 in the Past Year in These Major Cities.

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