Sunday, June 29, 2025

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2023

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Capturing Carbon With Machines Is a Failure—So Why Are We Subsidizing It?

licymakers are funding techno-fixes like carbon capture, when studies indicate nature-based solutions are all-around more effective.

Links 5/25/2023

Ice Melt In the Pipeline

The IPCC has been soft-pedaling realistic, as in alarming, prospects for rapid ice melt and near-term ocean rises.

Big Pharma Uses Fuzzy Math to Discredit Discount Drug Program

r 340B, a program granting cheaper medicines to nonprofit healthcare patients, drug industry innumeracy is only rivaled by its greed.

Subjective Well-Being During Spain’s Decline: Evidence from Crusade Bulls

Sales of Crusade Bulls, a form of indulgence that Spain preserved after they were in decline elsehwere, may shed light on other social issues

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2023

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As Water Levels Drop, the Risk of Arsenic Poisoning Rises

Dangerous levels of arsenic in well water is another symptom of falling water tables and depleted aquifers.

Links 5/24/2023

An mRNA Vaccine that Works

regarding pancreatic cancer, an mRNA vaccine has shown great promise

Cleaning Up After the North Sea Oil Industry Will Cost Billions – But Nobody Wants to Pay

The North Sea joins a long list of extraction industry unpunished negligence.

City’s Newest Migrants Head Underground Looking to Survive

Migrants are finding it harder to get by in already difficult roles like illegal street vendor work in the subways.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/23/2023

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Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution

Can comedy defeat climate inertia?

Links 5/23/2023