Swimming With Sharks in the Maldives
Maldivians are changing their attitudes towards sharks, sparking a tourism boom. Tourists bring plastic, creating a waste disposal problem.
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Wolf Richter: The Amazing Explosion of New Businesses Continues as Americans Strike Out on their Own
Including Wolf’s 2 cents about the high “failure rates” of new businesses, being a small-business owner himself.
Read more...Links 10/16/2021
Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking
Workers are getting uppity. What is surprising is that it took so long.
Read more...More ‘Disease’ Than ‘Dracula’ – How the Vampire Myth Was Born
On the Great Vampire Epidemic and other elements of vampire backstory.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/15/2021
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Read more...Moving Beyond America’s War on Wildfire: 4 Ways to Avoid Future Megafires
Under a changing climate, we will have to learn to coexist with wildfires in the U.S. West.
Read more...Bayer Loses Plot As Mexican Government Enforces Ban on GMO Imports
Bayer branded the Mexico’s behaviour as “unscientific”, a popular term of insult these days.
Read more...Central Asia’s Neoliberal Tragedy
How the post-USSR neoliberal land grab played out in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Needless to say, not pretty.
Read more...10,000 John Deere Workers Reject Contract, Strike 14 Plants
A round-up on the John Deere strike: The contract dispute, and the correlation of forces between labor and management.
Read more...What Is Family Estrangement? A Relationship Expert Describes the Problem and Research Agenda
A family expert politely argues that unhappy families may not be unhappy in their own way….
Read more...Bad Reporting On Latest Sveriges Riksbank Prize In Memory Of Nobel
Not only has the not-really-a-Nobel-prize in economic regularly promoted neoliberal ideology, but even when it doesn’t, the press messes up.
Read more...Links 10/14/2021
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/13/2021
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