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Tuesday, September 9, 2025
USAID Quietly Unveils Plans to Export Ukraine’s Digital Governance Model Around World
Ukraine’s wholesale digitization of government services predates the war, but in the eternal spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste and with the financial support of USAID and the EU, it has been significantly expanded since.
New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection
New assessment by Pesticides Action Network North America examines the “vicious cycle” linking these fossil fuel–derived chemicals and climate change.
The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/26/2023
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Why Are We So Afraid of Nuclear Power?
Nuclear energy is greener than renewables and safer than fossil fuels. But people seldom make decisions based on facts.
Healthcare Systems Increasingly Turn to Gig Nurses to Remedy Their Self-Created Nurse “Shortages”
Private equity uses the pandemic to pursue the “Uberfication” of nursing.
John Helmer: Blinken Concedes War Is Lost – Offers Kremlin Ukrainian Demilitarization; Crimea, Donbass, Zaporozhe; and Restriction of New Tanks to Western Ukraine if There Is No Russian Offensive
Blinken offers a hollow set of concessions via the Washington Post. What is the real message?
Biden’s Documents Dilemma
Obama is the most likely hidden hand behind the Biden documents reveal. That fact confirms America having reached banana republic status.
The Latest Anti-Covid Nasal Spray Vaccine Science
At long last we understand Covid’s mechanism of infection; it remains only to fund the nasal vaccine efforts to leverage our understanding.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/25/2023
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Quantifying The Macroeconomic Impact of Covid-19-Related School Closures on Human Capital
School closures lead to significant and persistent productivity losses, and the effects will peak in 2067. Policies aimed at improving the quality of education and adult training will be needed to offset or at least alleviate the impact of the pandemic on human capital.
