Demographics: A difference between 70s’/80’s labor market and today
The Career Goal of the Moment Is a ‘Lazy-Girl Job’ (msn.com) Like quiet quitting before it, the lazy-girl job is the latest iteration of 20- and 30-somethings of both genders…
Should we all be “preppers”?
Preppers is the term given to those who plan for disasters – for some, like us, this means the ordinary situation like power outages, while for others, it is preparing…
Demographics: 1 in 4 young adults in the UK say they will never have children
Half say they don’t want kids because they want to focus on themselves. Another 1 in 4 say they aren’t sure if they will have kids. A large percentage live…
Energy: Electrification of everything may not work
Well bummer: It would take a wind farm on about 100,000 acres to generate the same amount of electricity as a one-gigawatt nuclear plant that typically occupies less than 1…
Economy Follow Up: It’s all going to crash!
Well, probably. Some day. But the last two years have not been good for the naysayer expert predictions of imminent doom: Ask anybody on Wall Street last December what was…
Demographics: Global shrinking populations
And many, many more have shrinking populations. India thinks they have already dropped below a 2.1 fertility rate while the UN puts them just over 2.1. China is well below…
Follow up: Yellowstone’s “first fire of 2023”
Amid climate change sweeps week, the media got excited about Yellowstone's first fire of the season. It was minor and normal for this date.
Science: On hot days, it helps to stay in the shade
Who saw this coming? Shade is an essential solution for hotter cities (nature.com)
Climate, Follow up: The hottest sea temperature ever recorded
What happened with the 101 deg F hottest ocean temp this week? Within hours, it dropped by 4 deg C and by about 9 deg C lower within 2 days.
Public health: King County may rehire those it fired over vaccine mandates
The County lost hundreds of employees over vaccine mandates. Hundreds were fired and hundreds more resigned to avoid being fired. Now, faced with a labor shortage – in some departments,…
Education, Demographics: Students pursing degrees in education have plummeted
Enrollment in college education majors has plummeted since the peak in 1970. With a shrinking youth population, might not be best time to enter education.
Practice Factfulness
Practice factfulness and learn to think for yourself. If you do not practice factfulness, then you are being manipulated to believe things that are not true. And you have no…
Autos: NHTSA proposes 58 mpg auto fleet requirement
Is this technically feasible? US proposes raising vehicle fuel economy standards to 58 miles per gallon by 2032 | Reuters This is separate from an EPA proposal making what some…
Business, Demographics: Lack of kids means lack of toy sales
Mattel Needs Barbie’s Movie Magic to Lift Toy Sales – WSJ Toy R Us filed bankruptcy in 2017 and liquidated everything in 2018. The bankruptcy was blamed on not being…
Business, Work: Weight stigma has a strong negative bias in the work place
And not just the work place. Those who are overweight have a harder time getting hired, get paid less, and are promoted less, says research. The Hidden Career Cost of…