Why Population Aging Demands Looking Beyond Chronological Age
Experts are trying to get a handle on biological aging of the population, as opposed to calendar ages. But are the methods all that good?
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Game of Drones: “Watch the Skies!”
Several theories for the rash of drone sightings in New Jersey
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Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources
Lambert here: “Sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” By Hannah Norman, video producer and visual reporter, who joined KFF Health News after covering health care for the San Francisco Business Times. Previously, she was a fellow at AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s event branch. Originally published at KFF Health News. Juana Valle never imagined […]
Read more...Tom Neuburger: The Media’s Bizarre Treatment of the Mangione Case
The press hesitates to fully report the alleged Mangione murder. Class interests at work?
Read more...NYC Mayor Adams Trying to Wriggle Free from Sanctuary City Restrictions; Has “Same Desire” as Trump Border Czar
NYC Mayor Adams will work with the Trump Administration to remove illegal aliens who have committed crimes. What about sanctuary city laws?
Read more...First Year of Javier Milei’s Economic “Miracle”: Plunging Inflation, Surging Poverty, Rising Inequality and Slumping Industry
“The deep chainsaw is coming” in the second year.
Read more...“Anti-Western or Non-Western? The Nuanced Geopolitics of BRICS”
More on how much and what kind of influence BRICS might wield when it grows up.
Read more...A Heart Attack and Stroke Drug That Saves Lives Exists—But American Patients May Be Left Behind by Profit-Driven Healthcare
An example of medical industry inertia and profit priorities thwarting better treatments, here new clot-busters for heart attacks and strokes
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 12/12/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump: Time’s “Person of the Year”; Why Ernst changed her mind on Hegseth (some speculation); Thumbs down on UCLA’s AI-designed textbook cover ~
Read more...Warren Bill Would Stop Companies From Placing Shareholder Paydays Over Worker Rights
Warren revives a bill intended to put shareholder obligations in their proper place: at the bottom.
Read more...“Russia Dodged a Bullet by Wisely Choosing Not To Ally With the Now-Defeated Resistance Axis”
Another post-mortem on Syria’s collapse, here on the Russia-Axis of Resistance non-relationship.
Read more...Unveiling the Antarctic ‘Plastisphere’, a Unique and Potentially Hazardous New Ecosystem – New Research
On the growth of a plastisphere in the Antarctic.
Read more...The Increasing Cost of Buying American
Looking at the costs versus purported benefits of programs that require or encourage Federal agencies to purchase American products.
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