~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Israel’s Latest Weapon Against Palestine Is Egypt’s Debt
Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?
Is It Time To Embrace Geoengineering?
A long and useful recap of geoengineering methods.
Australia’s Central Bank Governor Discusses Possibility of Retailers Charging People for Paying in Cash
“The challenge with cash is that it really does have a big community public service sort of aura attached to it.”
Is Neoliberalism Really Dead? Or Does It Live on Like a Zombie?
Neoliberalism is still doing a fine job of zombifying economies, but the doctrine sadly is in rude health.
Both the Flu and RSV Are Airborne Aerosols, Just Like Covid (So CDC and “Droplet Dogma” Are Wrong Yet Again)
A survey of the literature on how RSV and the flu are transmitted, show that, like Covid, they too are tranmitted as airborne aerosols.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/18/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
‘This Should Be a National Scandal’: Medicare Advantage Plans Using AI for Denials
Medicare Advantage is neither Medicare nor an advantage.
As Russia Signals It Can Achieve Maximalist Aims in Ukraine, How Would Russia Manage Kiev and Western Ukraine?
Russia is presumably thinking hard about not just how to conclude the war in Ukraine, but what happens the morning after.
We Are Seventeen Years Old
Thank all of you for keeping us fit and feisty after so many years!
The Trouble with Nouns
Classification struggles in the Harvard-Harris poll on Israel.
As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Testimony by Police Cracks, Fallout Spreads
Rooting out the concept of “excited delirium” will take time in a country where law enforcement is spread across roughly 18,000 agencies governed by independent police chiefs or sheriffs.
