The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling
How Uber keeps pumping hot air into a financially flaccid business.
The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far
Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Globalization, Specialization, and the Division of Labour
A new angle on why workers lose out as globalization increases.
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Six: With No Hope of Real Profits, Uber and Lyft Double Down on Fake Profit Metrics
Uber continues to hemorrhage cash and rack up impressive negative operating margins, yet the press eats up its accounting misdirection.
Eric Topol Discusses Covid Vaccines Not Meeting Expectations, Breakthrough Cases Sicker
The data on US Covid cases and deaths are bad enough that members of the science establishment like Eric Topol are questioning the vaccines
African Faith Leaders to Gates Foundation: Drop ‘African Green Revolution’
“When it comes to the climate, African faith communities are urging the world to think twice before pushing a technical and corporate farming approach.”
Call to Ban Pesticides in UK Gardens to Protect Insects, Bees, Other Wildlife, and Human Health
UK biology professor Dave Goulson launches petition to ban spraying of chemical pesticides in public spaces and home gardens.
Biden Moves to Protect the Tongass, North America’s Largest Rainforest, from Logging and Road Building
The Biden administration recently announced new policies to protect the Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world.
Hoisted from E-Mail: Covid Death Undercounts, but How Large?
Yet another Covid data failure.
