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August 24, 2022

An odd discovery on Spotify. The entire economy is essentially scam-based now; this is another variant thereof.

Why the Rent Inflation Is So Damn High.

Home Sellers Are Slashing Prices in Pandemic Boomtowns.

U.S. house values fell for the first time since 2012, Zillow says. Sellers and buyers are facing a very different housing market to 2020.

The plunge in dry bulk shipping: Ominous signal on China’s economy?

Epaulette sharks able to walk on land evolving to better survive climate crisis.

Cities have given up on kids. As an urban planner and mother of two, I should know.

Landlord Informs Tenants Of Upcoming Improvements To His Lake House.

Why CNN’s efforts to appease democracy’s enemies will backfire.

Why Freedom of Speech Is the Next Abortion Fight.

Science is filled with dualist statements — claims that a substance is two things at once. Of course, scientists don’t use this terminology. They call their dualist statements ‘mathematical equations’.

August 23, 2022

Ron DeSantis Wants To Fake His Way To The Presidency, And It Could Work. Conservatives Love Being Mad About Things That Don’t Exist.

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs.

Inventory Shortages & Gluts, by Retailer Segment: Where they Are and Why.

How we fell for antidepressants.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: clinamen.

80% of US Voters Across Party Lines Support Expanding Social Security.

Europe’s Energy Crisis May Get a Lot Worse.

The past, present, and future of antibiotics.

The Abysmal Covid Vaccination Rate for Toddlers Speaks Volumes.

Your Steak Is Getting Cheaper at the Supermarket.

Four reasons why GDP is a useful number.

Biden’s Climate Law Is Ending 40 Years of Hands-Off Government. For America to decarbonize, it must reindustrialize.

August 22, 2022

The Healing Power of Strength Training.

How Would Japan Respond to a Taiwan Contingency?

Banana Ships And The Hidden Fees Of Ship Cargo.

Reviving Old Aircraft Could Help the U.S. Raise an Army of ‘Undead’ Drones.

Results show that microeconomic shocks contribute largely to the variance of the GDP growth but almost nothing to its tail probability.

What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them.

Tech Companies Are Not Our Friends, Even the Seemingly Anodyne Ones.

Founded in 1776 by General Partners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, and headquartered today in a Beaux Arts corporate campus in the District of Columbia, the U.S. government is the world’s premier funder of technological and commercial innovation. BAM!

General Motors, Honda partner to make millions of affordable EVs.

August 21, 2022

Labor Shortage Is Vexing Challenge for U.S. Economy.

Hold the Line. On the emergence of a folklore of screens.

China issues first national drought alert, battles to save crops in extreme heatwave.

Remembering the Fossils I Never Knew.

Perchance to dream? Study suggests spiders experience dreams while asleep.

German central bank chief Joachim Nagel warns inflation to hit 70-year high.

In social affairs, what should be done cannot be separated from how we choose to do it.

We Don’t Need a Trump-Inspired Civil War for Things to Get Real Bad, Real Fast.

Texas Schools Require Clear Bags To Prevent Students From Bringing In Books.

Historical rates of enslavement predict modern rates of American gun ownership.

Battalion battlegroups and front-lines.

Why haven’t there been hurricanes so far this year?

August 20, 2022

“Housing Recession”: Sales Plunge to Lockdown Levels, Active Listings Surge, Prices Begin to Dip as Price Reductions Spike, Investors Pull Back.

American Caregivers.

My Week With America’s Smartest* People.

Why Do So Many Recipes Call for So Little Garlic? I KNOW. We always add way, way more.

New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in lab tests.

The Inflation Reduction Act Gives USPS Billions to Buy Electric Vehicles.

Sphere eversion.

‘Generation sensible’ risk missing out on life experiences, therapists warn. Reports of rise in social anxiety among overly cautious 11- to 25-year-olds who often interact online. This is what is happening.

August 19, 2022

Europe is seriously considering a major investment in space-based solar power.

Buttons beat touchscreens in cars, and now there’s data to prove it.

It has become common in some progressive political-cultural circles to hear the phrase “intent doesn’t matter” uttered (or nodded along to) by people not wearing straitjackets.

Event Horizon Gets Better With Age. Very good film.

Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests.

America’s Affordable Housing Problem.

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him.

Feminism in Free Fall.

The Effects of Heat on Older Adults.

Green Elitism Behind Farmer Crackdowns.

Why Is Airline Travel So Miserable? Blame Florida.

My Abortion at 11 Wasn’t a Choice. It Was My Life.

August 18, 2022

Quality of random number generators significantly affects results of Monte Carlo simulations for organic and biological systems.

To image, or not to image: class-specific diffractive cameras with all-optical erasure of undesired objects.

Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion.

The Changing Iconography of Byzantine Gold Coinage.

A GOP Talking Point Suggests Birth Control Is Not at Risk. Evidence Suggests Otherwise.

OnlyFans Bribed Meta to Put Thousands of Adult Entertainers on Terrorist Watch List, Lawsuits Allege.

If Sydney Sweeney—who has been a star for years, and a working actor for a decade—still feels up against her limits before she has even started a family, then something is either not working as it should, or working in a way that is wildly, worryingly universal.

Lowering a dumbbell 6 times a day offers significant gains in strength. Doing anything at all is better than nothing.

Misunderstanding Liquidity, Misunderstanding QT.

Monkeypox Doesn’t Need to Be Renamed. Calling the disease something different won’t fix its bad vibes.

Look at What Happens When Two Galaxies Collide.

The Fed’s QT Isn’t Going to Plan.

Federal Reserve Officials See Inflation Staying ‘Uncomfortably High.’ Team transitory was always wrong. Wish they’d been right and I’d been wrong, but that’s not how I roll.

August 17, 2022

Preparedness paradox.

Colour evolution of Betelgeuse and Antares over two millennia, derived from historical records, as a new constraint on mass and age.

PBOC Surprise Suggests China’s Outlook Is Truly Dire.

Contemplating a world of linear growth.

The Last Oyster Tongers of Apalachicola.

Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection.

During Both Obama and Trump Administrations, the Justice Department Has Looked the Other Way at Crimes by the Powerful.

We won’t be the first civilization to collapse — but we may well be the last.

August 16, 2022

Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation. I don’t have any spatial memory so does not matter for me.

All Mankind Should Watch For All Mankind. Yes, they should.

This immediate rush toward a law-and-order crackdown is probably as good a harbinger of the new climate-crisis paradigm than any other thing I’ve witnessed.

Study achieves longest continuous tracking of migrating insects.

Gravity Probe B.

How Remote Work is Shifting Population Growth Across the U.S.

Republicans are coming after Social Security. Democrats, take note.

The Religious Right’s Agenda Is Center Stage Again — And It’s As Unpopular As Ever.

Evolutionary loss of complexity in human vocal anatomy as an adaptation for speech.

Defamation Suit About Election Falsehoods Puts Fox on Its Heels.

Loitering Is Delightful.

Austerity Is Causing America to Rot.

Wall Street Is Mostly to Blame for Rising Commodity Prices.

The War in Ukraine: Lessons for Mongolia. The war reminded Mongolians that they now have no choice but to prepare for all eventualities, because no other country will step in to save them.

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