In CDC’s approach to Hospital Acquired Infections, strategies to prevent the spread of pathogens through the air are ignored or downplayed.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/23/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump to pull out of WHO; Covid and the brain; Boeing 737 crashes not due to MCAS?!; Quantum consciousness ~
Climate Change Is Making Plants Less Nutritious − That Could Already Be Hurting Animals That Are Grazers
More hidden than rising seas or heatwaves, long-term changes in the nutritional value of plants could be even more disruptive.
Holiday Schedule and Moderation Holiday
We’ve kicking back a bit over the holiday season, but not to worry. We’ll have new fare and updates every day. Best wishes for 2025!
The US Embrace of Incarceration for the Homeless Is a Win-Win for the Plutocrats
Ignoring the true causes of the homeless crisis while expanding the carceral state helps discipline labor.
Anora: A Refreshingly Radical Depiction of Sex Work on Film
The film’s representation of sex workers as deserving of respect is a quiet, radical act.
The Demand and Supply of Hate
A new study looks at amplification of hateful content on social media platforms and points to remedies. But is BlueSky really any better?
Michael Hudson: Foreward on Schurtz’s Origins of Money
Michael Hudson explains how Heinrich Schurtz’s 1897 Origins of Money debunked neoclassical fables about how money started and developed.
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/20/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; New Covid data, with wastewater increase; Mangione hit with Federal charges, death penalty possible; Biden wasn’t been governing the country, an extra-constitutional entity was; DOGE is another extra-constitutional entity ~
Post Cold War Geopolitics Worse for Global South
How the US mismanaged its unipolar moment to the detriment of the Global South.
The US Just Opened Its Biggest Embassy in… Mexico, Amid Souring Relations Between the Two Countries
Twenty years ago, the largest US embassy in the world was in occupied Iraq. Today, it is in Mexico. The first person to take charge of the embassy will be a former CIA agent and Green Beret.
