Author Archives: Yves Smith
Battery Recycling Is Essential to Clean Energy
Can manufacturers help create a circular process for lithium ion battery recycling?
Read more...Tesla Joins My Imploded Stocks, -70% from Peak: Object of Religious Veneration Turns into Automaker
Beyond the consensual Tesla hallucination, the real world for automakers is not fun.
Read more...Merry Almost Christmas and Holiday Posting/Comments Sort of Holiday
Holiday wishes and our holiday schedule. Best to all!
Read more...Why Climate Science Shouldn’t Forget to Factor in Brain Health
Scientists need to learn more about climate change’s negative impact on the nervous system in order to mitigate it.
Read more...Russia Sitrep of Sorts
Yet again reading the Russia/Ukraine tea leaves.
Read more...Wind, Snow, Brutal Cold: Arctic Front Barrels Eastward from Plains
Life-threatening cold, with wind chills and white-out conditions, will sweep through many areas.
Read more...Reviewing Healthcare Costs as Driven by Pharma, Hospitals, and Doctors
Decomposing the rise in US healthcare costs. Of course, it’s not much due to more or better care, but higher charges.
Read more...A Crisis Is Looming For The U.S. Energy Grid
The US plans to further stress its grid with electricity vehicle demands, with no plans for upgrades.
Read more...FTX/Alameda’s Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang Sign Plea Deals for Seven Felonies in Hopes of Reduced Sentences; New SEC Filing Adds Charges Based on Deeming FTT a Security
More shoes drop in the FTX saga as Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang cooperate with officials and we get an idea of the tales they are telling.
Read more...Big Pharma’s Obscene Profits, Not Striking Nurses, Are Killing the NHS
US patients are not the only victims of Big Pharma price gouging.
Read more...Twitter and the State, Part 2
Highlights from the latest Twitter Files releases.
Read more...Over the Holidays, Try Talking to Your Relatives Like an Anthropologist
How to talk to your relatives to learn more about their history and the society they once inhabited.
Read more...Links 12/21/2022
Salvador Luria, 1912-1991: A Scientist for Our Time
On accomplished scientist, institution-builder, teacher and activitst Salvadore Luria.
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