Category Archives: Guest Post

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2023

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What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View, or How to Look at the World from the Philosophical High Ground

A critical look at William MacAskill’s new book on how human civilization can make it through the next few hundred years.

The U.S. Needs To Double The Size Of Its Energy Grid

Will the state of the US grid constrain the conversion to electric vehicles and other green devices?

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/9/2023

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Why I’m Skeptical of Powell’s Claim Red-Hot Rent CPI Will Just Vanish: Landlords Report the Opposite, Even for April

Oopsie! Still perceived-to-be-high housing prices, thanks to higher mortgage rates, is a landlord’s wet dream. Who’d have thunk it?

EU Commission’s Flagship Annual Economic Event Just Showed How Little Public Appetite There Is for Cashless Economy

Even at the very heart of the EU’s political establishment a majority of people believe that a cashless society would not be beneficial for the general public or the economy.

Peter Pan Bonds to the Debt Ceiling Rescue?

Yet another way to circumvent debt ceilng restrictions isn’t getting the consideration it warrants.

Mass General Hospital Decrees that Patients May Not ASK Staff to Wear Masks, Even If Immunocompromised (ADA Complaint Filed)

Mass General Hospital mandates patient infection from Covid.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2023

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William Astore: How American Learned to Love, or at Least Not Hate, Its Nuclear Bombs

William Astore recalls his encounters with icons of US nuclear development, and is sad they are still with us.

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