Governments and employers are slow to adapt to the risk to workers of higher outdoor temperatures.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Despite the Recession-Emergency-Rate-Cut Buffoonery, the Services Sector Expands Strongly on Growth in New Orders & Employment. Inflation Pressures Still On
Services are two-thirds of the economy; as long as they’re firm, the economy will plug along just fine, even as manufacturing stalled
Insects: Apocalypse Soon?
The world-wide decline of insect populations, strengths and weaknesses of the studies, causes and effects
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/5/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Hoisted from Comments: Is Intel Going Down the Boeing Path?
Why Intel’s prospects are even worse than its stock price plunge and worried press accounts suggest.
Satyajit Das: The Middle East’s Dance of Death – Part 1: Deluge
A long view of the conflict in the Middle East.
The Growing Conservative Backlash Against Carbon Capture and Storage
A climate technology favored by oil companies is increasingly being attacked by more prominent figures on the right who are following the lead of their base.
Why Is the EU Upping the Pressure on Meloni in Italy?
News that Rome is in hot water over “rule of law” issues came out at same time Meloni headed East in attempt to repair ties with China, but is that the reason?
Urgent Care or ER? With ‘One-Stop Shop,’ Hospitals Offer Both Under Same Roof
Hospitals in several states are partnering with a private equity-backed company to offer combined emergency and urgent care in a single building. But patients may not realize prices vary between the two services — often by a lot.
Uncovering Dark Oxygen: Deep-Sea Discovery Challenges Scientific Assumptions
Yves here. We linked to reports of the discovery of so-called dark oxygen, but we did not realize that this finding could argue for restricting deep sea mining. By Felicity Bradstock, a freelance writer specializing in energy and finance. Originally published at OilPrice Potato-shaped metallic nodules deep under the Pacific Ocean produce oxygen in complete […]
The Shocking Truth Behind the End of Financial Colonialism
Another take on the slow unraveling of the Western-dominated order, here seen as a repudiation of colonialism.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/2/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics Charts Friday: New RCP charts (bad news for Trump); many Covid updates (a little good news); new study on Covid and traffic safety; Kamala’s VP search; aphantasia and prosopometamorphopsia. ~
