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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Often Overlooked, New Building Codes Could Buffer Climate Change
Yves here. It’s nice to see a discussion of a concrete measure (pun not intended) to slow climate change. We need way more approaches that can be executed at a local level. By Emma Foehringer Merchant. Originally published at Undark On September 9, 2020, California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild opened a scheduled meeting with […]
Sloppy Pfizer Booster Clinical Trial Consent Form Provides Way to Exclude Reactions That Require Emergency Care
The Pfizer consent form for a clinical of its booster shot is troubling from a participants and public health persepctive.
Long Drives, Air Travel, Exhausting Waits: What Abortion Requires in the South
Feminists failed to press for abortion laws when they had political winds at their backs. Women in Flyover are already paying for this lapse.
‘The Economist’ Notices the Climate
A prominent example of Serious People giving lip service to the disastrous consequences of climate change, with no urgent call to action.
If Obama’s “Pandemic Playbook” Was So Great, Why Isn’t Biden Following It?
Bullet points and tables can’t compensate for years of disinvestment.
2:00PM Water Cooler 8/2/2021
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It’s Time for a New International Space Treaty
With satellite traffic increasing and space tourism set to take off, the laws governing space are due for an overhaul.
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Five: Didi’s IPO Illustrates Why Uber’s Business Model Was Always Hopeless
Didi has a more commanding position than Uber in a fundamentally more attractive market, yet has been hemmorrhaging money.
The Moral Hazard of Limited Liability
Some concrete ideas for how to pin the tail of the limited liability donkey back on key insiders, and make regulators accountable.
Is the Soil an “Ecosystem Service” That Can Be Priced?
The entire ecosystem services project is flawed, because only the use values of services so small as to be toys can be priced.
Pfizer Court Fight Could Legalize Medicare Copays and Unleash ‘Gold Rush’ in Sales
Pfizer wants to legalize kickbacks.
