Empty Office Spaces Can Be Converted to Residential Buildings – But It Won’t Be Affordable
What if we convert redundant office space to affordable living space or public housing and quit with the return-to-office pressure?
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What Is Happening to the Cats of Cyprus?
The history of Cypriot cats, the Feline Coronavirus that’s infecting them, with its transmission, treatment, geographic and zoonotic spread, and its unsettlingly intriguing mechanism of action (with cat video).
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Colonialism or Sovereignty? How the Global Financial System Traps Countries in Debt
A deep dive on developing country debt crisis and how they reveal the workings of international finance.
Read more...The Origins of the Investment Theory of Party Competition
How Tom Ferguson’s archival research showed that conventional wisdom on voter behaior was rnaive, and investment drives outcomes.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/14/2023
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Read more...A Transatlantic Trend: Banks in UK and US Are Closing Customer Accounts With Little to No Warning Or Explanation
“The escalation team just reached out to me. They told me that the account was being shut down, and they wouldn’t give me a reason. I asked them if they would ever give me a reason. They said no.”
Read more...Germany Unveils Strategy to “De-Risk” from China
Plan is short on details as Berlin says it wants to coordinate its policy with the EU, which wants to coordinate its policy with Washington.
Read more...Promising Assisted Reproductive Technologies Come With Ethical, Legal and Social Challenges – A Developmental Biologist and a Bioethicist Discuss IVF, Abortion and the Mice With Two Dads
New assisted reproductive technologies are creating ethical dilemmas.
Read more...This Week in Long Covid: Nature Fires Salvo of Four Major Papers
Papers on Long Covid and immunology, quality of life, genetics, and natural history (and the media reaction thereto).
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2023
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Energy Destinies – Part 5 Energy Transition – Mystery Destination
An energy transition refers to a major structural shift in energy systems. There have been several such historical transitions – bio-fuels, such as wood, to water and wind energies and then to fossil fuels. In its current usage, it is used to describe the attempt to replace fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption with renewable energy sources.
Read more...Medi-Cal’s Fragmented System Can Make Moving a Nightmare
“To me, that’s how insurance works: One insurance ends, the other begins.” LOL no.
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