Rapid COVID-19 Tests Can Be Useful – But There Are Far Too Few To Put a Dent in the Pandemic
Why Covid antigen tests, which are easy to administer and produce results in less than a half hour, are not a magic bullet.
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Much of the U.S. Could Be Uninhabitable by 2050
A new report confirms earlier studies that found that climate change will render a lot of the US uninhabitable in a few decades.
Read more...Brexit: HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME
Little Brexit motion and less progress as the clock runs.
Read more...Saudi Aramco’s Landmark IPO Is Costing The Kingdom Billions
How the Saudi Aramco IPO has become a financial millstone.
Read more...Brexit: Decisions
The Brexit trade talks illustrate that not deciding amounts to a decision.
Read more...Yemen: More Damage To World Peace And Security Due To Trump Wrecking Everything As He Exits
Trump kicks Yemen.
Read more...You and I May Never Summit Everest But Microplastics Already Have
Microsplastics have been found on the summit of Mount Everest; Seems no place, even earth’s most remote locations, is witout this scourge.
Read more...“Super Emitters”: 1% of World’s Population Causes Half of Global Aircraft Emissions
COVID-19 provides a chance to reassess our relationship with flying, a major source of global emissions.
Read more...Nick Corbishley: Bankruptcy Looms As Cash-Starved UK Local Councils’ High-Risk Real Estate Bets Sour
UK councils were already in trouble due to austerity, inflated charges for services, and mismanagement. Covid is set to generate bankruptcies
Read more...Waste Watch: Carbon Emissions to Increase in the UK from Waste Disposal; Yet Another Reason We Need To Cease Making So Much Plastic
Absent immediate and drastic action to limit plastics use, global emissions will increase as incineration is used for waste disposal.
Read more...2020 “Globie”: The Carry Trade
A recent book focuse on the role of the carry trade in increasing financialization and instabilty.
Read more...Tapped-Out Tenants Take Charge as Landlords Pursue End Runs Around Eviction Moratorium
Tenants face harassment and lockouts to pressure them to leave their homes — but renters are fighting back.
Read more...Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak
The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.
Read more...Victims of Nuclear Bomb Tests on U.S. Soil 75 Years Ago Continue to Seek Justice
The US conducted nuclear tests that damaged the health of generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated.
Read more...Who Is Michèle Flournoy, Biden’s Rumored Pick for Pentagon Chief?
Rumor, as in press reports, has it that Biden plans to install uber hawk Michèle Flournoy as Secretary of Defense.
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