Climate: COP28- 97,000 registered attendees, over 4,000 journalists
97,000 attendees, including 4,000 journalists, flew into COP28, which accomplished nothing. But it was a grand 2 week party vacation.
Demographics, Education: More school closures coming
More school closures announced as the low fertility rate leads to a shrinking youth cohort.
EV Climate hypocrisy: “Pole to Pole on (Almost) Entirely Electric Power”
A stunt took 10 months and at times, used fossil fuel generators, cargo ships and aircraft, to travel at 1/4th the speed of the Pony Express.
TBI: He’ll survive
Bad injury, skull fracture, brain bleed (similar to my experience). His longer-term outlook appears to be good.
Aviation: Why on board WiFi doesn’t work sometimes
Why you cannot get WiFi to work onboard airliners - they need to reset the system to clear the DHCP leases.
Climate: Christmas gifts should be banned
Excessive consumerism: We must stop gift giving to reduce carbon emissions. It's Science.
Climate: Health care must cut carbon emissions in half by 2030
Health care must cut carbon emission in half by 2030. If true, it means less health care and probably killing people. It's Science.
Public health: If you are not wearing an N95 mask …
If you are not wearing an N95 mask 24x7, you are racists and pro-genocide. Apparently this is science.
Demographics, Education: Male college enrollees disappearing
College enrollees aged 18-24 are 42% male and 58% female.
Demographics, Education: Fed says college debts play role in housing accessibility
Understanding the Generational Gaps in Homeownership | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org) The % of adults who went to college in the 1970s was vastly smaller than today, hence, fewer “Baby…
Public health: Trashes millions of masks, gowns, gloves
Into the trash went more than 18 million masks, 22 million gowns, 500,000 gloves, and more. That’s not counting states that didn’t give the AP exact figures or responded in…
Climate: We must stop breathing, human breath emits methane
Human breathing emits methane, and older people emit more than younger people. To save huamnity from the climate, we need to kill everyone.
Demographics: Gen Z not having kids ’cause climate change
But as this story points out, every generation has challenges and generally everything gets better in the future.
Biology: Biological sex is better predictor of sports outcomes than gender identity, says study
Sex may be a more useful explanatory variable than gender identity for predicting the performance of athletes in mass-participation races, a new paper has found. Study shows sex could be…
TBI: She survived – wow
I am going to occasionally share good stories about patients who have experienced traumatic brain injuries (TBI).