How New York City Has Worked to Protect People from the Deadliest Disaster: Heat
New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from heat.
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No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income
Why a widely-held view about productivity that is foundational to the claim that people are paid what they deserve does not hold up to scrutiny.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/12/2019
Today’s Water Cooler:
Read more...Summertime and the Living is Easy: In Praise of Farmers Markets
Not every aspect of modern life has been crapified: in praise of farmers markets, and the pleasure of making good jam.
Read more...Links 8/12/19
Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?
The two Bretton Woods institutions the have huge credibility deficits due to the policy conditionalities and advice they have dispensed to developing countries in recent decades.
Read more...U.S. Healthcare Industry Could Be Decimated by China Trade War
One way China could mess with the US.
Read more...Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
Apple continues to crapify its products, in ways intended to thwart the ability of their owners to use third party services to repair their devices.
Read more...Links 8/11/19
Example of ‘Unknown Unknowns,’ Study Detailing ‘Almost Instant Mortality of Corals’ Suggests Crisis Worse Than Previously Understood
New study published by Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized.
Read more...Austerity Has Made People Less Prepared for a No Deal Brexit
The government says it’s preparing for a Brexit crash out. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of Britain intensely vulnerable to economic shock.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Japan/Korea trade war, Biden, Buttigieg, Gabbard, Sanders, Trump, Warren, El Paso and Dayton, impeachment, voting machines, prices, Goldman Sachs, Uber, tech and censorship, climate change and poutine, etc., Paradise fire, Scott County, MS, body weight and the immune system
Read more...How Capitalism Exploits Our Fear of Old Age
Pondering the challenges of being old now.
Read more...Deskilling Among Manufacturing Production Workers
More evidence of how manufacturing workers have taken it on the chin.
Read more...New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change
This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.
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