Some of the symptoms of a ministroke, and why you should go to the emergency room pronto if you think you’ve had one.
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Friday, September 19, 2025
A Ministroke Can Have Major Consequences
Topics: Guest Post, Health care
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 21 Comments »
Links 5/27/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 124 Comments »
What Mexico Can Teach Its Northern Neighbour About Combatting Child Obesity, Diabetes and Other Chronic Health Conditions
“The economic burden… of not intervening in the prevention and reduction of childhood overweight and obesity is up to $1.8 trillion in the case of Mexico.”
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 27 Comments »
“Am I Hot or Not? People Are Asking ChatGPT for the Harsh Truth”
ChatGPT as beauty advisor illustrates the consequences of tech intruding more and more into real life.
Topics: Media watch, Social values, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:41 am | 74 Comments »
Trump’s Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership
Some geopolitical aspects of how Trump’s mazimixation of his personal power comes at the expense of the US
Topics: China, Doomsday scenarios, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:00 am | 27 Comments »
Again Seeking Reader Help in Finding New Site Writer(s) to Fill Lambert’s Yellow Waders
Damsel in distress! We are still short of where we’d like to be in terms of new writer(s) to take up open posting slots.
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:23 am | 13 Comments »
Links 5/26/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:55 am | 145 Comments »
Joker Geoeconomics and the Fight Over Global Ports
What are China’s options to prevent BlackRock-MSC/US takeover of 43 global ports? And how far will the US go to muscle its way out of its profitability crisis?
Topics: China, Globalization, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Investment banks
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 6:00 am | 20 Comments »
Wastewater Plants Could Protect Against PFAS Pollution
Sewage treatment plants have the power to help reduce people’s exposure to PFAS. It’s time they start using it.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 7 Comments »
Links 5/25/2025
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Haig Hovaness at 6:55 am | 135 Comments »
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Incident (1990) Run Time 1H 37M
The Incident is a made for television movie that portrays a small town lawyer’s struggles with his task of defending a German POW.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by semper loquitur at 6:30 am | 11 Comments »
The Left Needs a New Globalization Vision to Counter the Far-Right Surge
An argument that the way out of neoliberal globalization is by developing a new globalization that is democratic and free from the destructive tendencies of capitalist accumulation.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics
Posted by Conor Gallagher at 5:00 am | 64 Comments »
Links 5/24/2025
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 173 Comments »
Michael Hudson: The Secret Deal That Started a Global Economic War
Micheal Hudson explains how Trump’s tariffs are yet another device to force countries to accept poilcies that benefit the US.
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:22 am | 26 Comments »
Decades On, SSRIs Remain Mired in Mystery and Debate
Experts worry MAHA could wage a war on SSRIs. But some researchers have long questioned the drugs’ efficacy.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:58 am | 13 Comments »