Comparing Google to Qwant for user interface/user experience, privacy under the GDPR, and the “filter bubble”
Saturday, February 7, 2026
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/25/2019
Today’s Water Cooler:
New Evidence on The Broad Reach of Pharmaceutical Payments
Our results add to a growing body of evidence linking pharmaceutical payments to changes in prescribing behaviour
The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Are Evidence-Based Decisions Impossible in Politics?
How human psychology and institutional incentives undermine making good decisions in the political arena, and what can be done about that.
It’s Time to Order Your Seed Catalogs, If You Have Not Already!
“The awesomeness is in the evolution of a neglected, left-for-dead side yard of a rental building into a living, breathing space with butterflies, bees, fat earthworms, and toads, not to mention flowering plants.”
With Coal’s Decline, Pennsylvania Communities Watch the Rise of Natural Gas-fueled Plastics
A growing chorus agrees the expansion of the natural gas industry, which feeds plastics and petrochemical plants like Shell’s, is moving the U.S. in the wrong direction to prevent catastrophic impacts from climate change.
>/a>Making Sense of Bolivia’s Discontent
Unpacking the many political and policy contradictions in Bolivia over the past decade.
Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate
A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/22/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: USMCA not yet agreed, Buttigieg, Bloomberg, Gabbard, Patrick, Sanders, Trump, Warren freezes up, John Bolton, Republican establishment on impeachment, Presidential debates, Epstein and Clinton, Krugman on The Blob, manufacturing, wildfires, mass shooters, income inequality
Lack of Right to Repair Limits Ability of US Military to Maintain its Own Equipment
Support for right to repair from an unlikely quarter: US military. Military hardware is sometimes shipped back to the states for repair.
