Yearly Archives: 2023

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/6/2023

~ Today’s Water Cooler ~

As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack

Osteopaths are increasingly stepping into the primary care gap produced by MDs who increasingly go into lucrative specialities.

Links 6/6/2023

WHO Forges Partnership With EU to Create Global Digital Vaccine Passport System

The World Health Organization (WHO) adopts the EU’s expiring digital vaccine passport as a global standard, as we warned would happen over a year ago.

Catastrophic Breach of Nova Kakhovka Dam Floods Lower Dnieper, Cuts Crimea Water Supplies; Ukraine Attacks in Bakhmut, South Donetsk [Updated]

Those unhappy about the lack of drama in the Ukraine war of late have gotten what they wanted with the breach of the Kakhovka dam

NIH “12 Symptoms” Long Covid Study: Another Scientific Communications Debacle, or Worse?

It would be really nice if the NIH were not as dysfunctional as CDC. But I have my doubts….

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/5/2023

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~

Links 6/5/2023

Where the ‘Wood-Wide Web’ Narrative Went Wrong

The three of us have studied forest fungi for our whole careers, and even we were surprised by some of the more extraordinary claims surfacing in the media about the wood-wide web. Thinking

Wall Street Journal Aids Vulture Investors Threatening Second Mortgage Borrowers With Foreclosure….on (Nearly Always) Legally Unenforceable Debt

Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.

Insurers Signal Fallout From Sanctions On Russia

UK maritime insurers are daring to speak up about the way they have become Russian sanctions collateral damage.

Is There a Covid Wastewater Spike in New York City?

Spoiler alert: yes. Though it’s not easy!

Links 6/4/2023