Category Archives: Guest Post

How One Advice Columnist Handled Our Covid Pandemic, Over Four Years

Carolyn Hax tries to sweep back the tide with a broom.

Book Review: How Plants Experience the World

In “The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger considers the evidence for plant intelligence, and what that means for humanity.

Links 5/26/2024

Remember Headlines 2 Weeks Ago, Labor Market “Suddenly” Weakens as Unemployment Claims “Spike”: It Just Got Unwound

A wee unpacking of unemployment data to show how Fed rate cut cheerleaders are still ahead of themselves

U.S. Remains Painfully Dependent on China for Silicon and Solar Panels

Yet another own goal in the US economic war against China. We chose to make ourselves dependent and don’t like where we are.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics, the Bragg trial winds down. imperceptible skin sensors, Hokusai’s Great Wave ~

Links 5/24/2024

SouthCom Commander Laura Richardson Just Described “Plan Colombia” As A Success, A Model for the Region

Even the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has admitted that Plan Colombia was a resounding failure from a counter-narcotics perspective while providing short-term benefits from a counter-insurgency perspective

National Grid Wants to Heat More Homes With Converted Food Waste — and Make You Pay For It

National Grid’s biogas plant is performing poorly, as shown by downtimes and methane flaring, yet it wants more consumer subsidies to expand.

Masks Work, Our Comprehensive Review Has Found

Finally, a rigorous study on mask use shows definitively that masks do indeed work, as in reduce transmission of respiratory diseases.

Links 5/23/2024

Satyajit Das: The Economic Costs of Modern War

How economic, military and political costs and consequences are intersecting in the Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts