A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Energy Destinies – Part 2: Renewable Energy – Character Shortcomings
Satyajit Das provides another deep dive into the realities of the so-called energy transition.
Thus We Fall: June Temperature Spike Confirms Dire Climate Change Forecasts
The trajectory of climate change is starting to look worse.
A Majority Of Americans Are Against Banning Gas Stoves
Even Americans who don’t have gas stoves oppose a ban.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/21/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
The US is is abandoning treatable patients, first by not providing reasonably priced insulin, now by ignoring cancer drug shortages.
Biden Undoes Blinken China Visit and Then Some by Calling Xi a Dictator
When you thought the US might finally have hit bottom on the China front, we show we can reach new lows.
Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
Virtual You is (supposedly) coming! Should you embrace it or run the other way?
The Economic Effects of Military Support for Ukraine: Evidence from Fiscal Multipliers in Donor Countries
An argument that spending on Ukraine is not quite as unproductive as it seems.
Masks ***ARE*** a Fashion Item! In Asia.
A look at Hong Kong-based MaskLab.
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/20/2023
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
US Troops Are in Peru to Counter Chinese and Russian Influence in Latin America, Reports Peruvian News Outlet
Peruvian troops’ “training alongside US forces will help to improve their capabilities and strengthen the operational performance of [Peruvian] Special Forces, boosting their interoperability with NATO systems and doctrine.”
