Pandemic Divergence: The Social and Economic Costs of Covid-19
An early stab at a Covid ledger. Not pretty.
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Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.
Read more...Goodbye, Climate Deniers. Hello, Climate Bullshitters
Climate messaging has changed, but the willingness to take adequate measures has not.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/11/2021
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Read more...From Rodney King to George Floyd, How Video Evidence Can Be Differently Interpreted in Courts
Video evidence can be read very differently, depending on the assumed or actual context. How can courts prevent misuse?
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Bayer-Monsanto Fails (At First Attempt) to Block Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and Ban on GMO Corn
Mexico has already gone mano a mano with Monsanto before, and it came out on top. But this time it’s on a direct collision course with Big Ag and the U.S. government.
Read more...Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”
Top scholars charge the online publication Frontiers in Pharmacology with gross editorial misconduct in spiking articles on Covid treatments.
Read more...How Upskilling America Will Rebuild the Middle Class
A sanity check on how far “let them eat training” will go in restoring the fallen American middle class.
Read more...WHO, CDC Throw in the Towel on Covid Aerosol Transmission, Biden Administration Seems Oblivious
Tired: Droplets, fomites. Wired: Aerosols. Let us go forth and mitigate!
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2021
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Read more...Michael Hudson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Imagining An End to Poverty and Economic Dependence
Michael Hudson and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove of the Poor People’s Campaign discuss Biden “reforms” and the (mis)use of religion in economic justice.
Read more...Kelp, Trophic Cascades, and Climate
Wandering through the kelp forests (which turn out to be a carbon sequestration option).
Read more...Links 5/9/2021
Is This the Beginning of the End for Labour?
Brexit and Covid should have paved the way for a Labour romp. Instead, Labour tried to win a patriotism contest with the Tories and lost.
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