Rural Alaska Has a Bridge Problem as Permafrost Thaws and Crossing River Ice Gets Riskier with Climate Change
In Alaska, bridges face a unique and growing set of problems as the planet warms.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 10/12/2021
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I hope you enjoyed your Federal Holiday. Also, I got wrapped around the axle reconfiguring the Covid section; more to come. –lambert UPDATE All done! Bird Song of the Day * * * #COVID19 Patient readers, I have started to revise this section, partly to reduce my workload, […]
Read more...Microsoft Endorses Right to Repair; Apple Doubles Down on Opposition
Microsoft responds to a shareholder resolution by supporting the right to repair, at least in theory; Apple remains opposed.
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Chicago Boys’ 100% Private Pension System in Chile Is in Big Trouble
Once touted by its creator as the “Mercedes Benz” of pensions, Chile’s defined contribution scheme is suffering major outflows
Read more...On the Economic Geography of Climate Change
A crucial aspect of human adaptation to climate change is geographic mobility. As a consequence, limitations to mobility will worsen the socioeconomic costs of climate change.
Read more...Links 10/11/2021
Popularism and the Child Tax Credit
On the use and misuse of popularism as a tool to inform policy decisions.
Read more...Did Labor Action Over Vaccine Mandates Compel Southwest to Cancel Thousands of Flights?
The strange story of Southwest’s operational collapse this weekend
Read more...Links 10/10/2021
Major Insurers Running Billions of Dollars Behind on Payments to Hospitals and Doctors
Disputes between insurers and hospitals are nothing new. But this fight sticks more patients in the middle, worried they’ll have to pay unresolved claims.
Read more...Book Review: The ‘Mystery’ Illnesses Informed by Culture
Illness may be even less straightforward than you think.
Read more...Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK
Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2021
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Read more...Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
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