Saturday, January 17, 2026
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.
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?
Could Argentina Be the Next Latin American Country to Dollarise Its Economy?
Against a backdrop of triple-digit inflation, severe drought and ever-rising economic uncertainty, the idea of abolishing the peso and adopting the US dollar gains ground.
The Debt Ceiling End-Game
So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
