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Sunday, June 29, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2023
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 95 Comments »
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.
Topics: Carbon credits, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 25 Comments »
Links 5/25/2023
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 139 Comments »
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.
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:15 am | 49 Comments »
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.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, Social policy
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:01 am | 1 Comment »
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
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Europe, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:54 am | 6 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/24/2023
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 99 Comments »
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.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 5/24/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 221 Comments »
An mRNA Vaccine that Works
regarding pancreatic cancer, an mRNA vaccine has shown great promise
Topics: Guest Post, Health care
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 am | 23 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:39 am | 10 Comments »
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.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:08 am | 25 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/23/2023
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Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 69 Comments »
Strange, Unpredictable, and Energizing: Dark Comedy as Climate Solution
Can comedy defeat climate inertia?
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 23 Comments »
Links 5/23/2023
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 178 Comments »