Clouds, Cloud Formation, Climate, and the Precautionary Principle
We still cannot incorporate observational studies of cloud formation into our climate models. Does this matter?
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Links 12/13/2020
It’s the Index, Stupid! Our New Not-So-Neutral Financial Market Arbiters
An overview of the recent changes in financial markets that have come from the rise of ‘passive’ investing.
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Robert McChesney: The Decline of American Journalism
Why is US journalism in the crapper?
Read more...The Failure of the Public Health Establishment
Questioning whether the public health response to Covid is really about protecting the public.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/11/2020
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Read more...Why Paying People To Get the Coronavirus Vaccine Won’t Work
More discussion of how to get the dogs to eat the vaccine dogfood.
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On the Demise of Universities
More on how neoliberalism has been digging a grave for universities.
Read more...It’s Time to Break Up Britain
The Tories’ shambolic, self-serving rule has stoked interest in Britain breakaways by Scotland and even Wales and the North. But are they viable?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/10/2020
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Read more...Polarized Pandemic Response and Covid-19 Connectedness Across US States
US data shows that strict responses reduce Covid outbreaks, and less stringent (Republican) states spread disease to each other.
Read more...DoorDash Delivery Workers Would Need to Toil for Two Days to Buy a Single Share of Their $60 Billion Company
A look at how DoorDash exploits its workers, and how they and some legislators are seeking to change that.
Read more...‘95% Effective’ May Not Mean What You Think It Means
A detailed discussion of the headline “95% effective” claim for the about-to-be-released Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.
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