Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers
Yet more types of long Covid damage, this one particularly debilitating.
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Links 6/2/2021
Lawmakers Are Firing Back At Fossil Fuel Divestors
Red state retaliation! Fossil fuel states will take business away from firms that divest from energy producers.
Read more...The West’s Not Very Hidden Hand in Debt Oppression in Central Asia
How World-Bank-sponsored microlending produced widespread misery in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: debt collectors use violence.
Read more...SoftBank-Funded Silicon Valley Unicorn Katerra, Which Was to “Transform” the Construction Industry, Collapses
Katerra, one of the rare unicorns with a real or at least plausible business, fell to Covid. Lawsuits will fly.
Read more...From Tragedy to Hesitancy: How Public Health Failures Boosted COVID-19 Vaccine Scepticism
Who’d have thunk it? Public health incompetence fuels distrust in official recommendations, like vaccines.
Read more...Link 6/1/2021
Why Did 72% of Israelis Want Attack on Gaza to Continue?
ir Hever discusses how the attacks on Gaza reveal the extreme right-wing radicalization of most of the Israeli Jewish population
Read more...Do Languages Get Simpler When They Get More Complicated?
How and why do languages change?
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Links 5/29/2021
Bob Pollin: Modest Inflation Is Good for Workers
If inflation is linked to higher wages, that’s not bad for workers, says Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst.
Read more...The Origin of the Gender Gap
The level of the gender gap has changed over time, but women haven’t shown net progress over time.
Read more...‘This Is the Price of War’: Israeli Newspaper Publishes Photos of All 67 Palestinian Children Killed in Gaza Onslaught
Haaretz took the unprecedented step of commemorating the deaths of Palestinian children in the latest Israel-Gaza conflict.
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