Public health: “Long Covid” symptoms just as common in people who did not have Covid
Oops: Long Covid cannot be blamed for constant tiredness, study suggests (msn.com)
Policy: Universal Basic Income
The Denver Basic Income project is presented as using UBI to end homelessness. Except that's not what happened.
Communications: Alfred Vail, not Samuel Morse, likely invented “Morse Code”
Alfred Vail, not Samuel Morse, is the likely inventor of the "Morse Code".
Climate: # of passenger jets to double over next 20 years
Does this mean we are not banning air travel? Airline fleets to double in new blow to flight-shamers
Climate: Climate change affects those with migraines, worse
Or something: Georgia weather summer 2024: Heat will trigger more migraines, study finds (ajc.com)
Austria says government should monitor all communications
All your messages are belong to us.
Crime: NYC spends US $1,500+ per day per incarcerated criminal
NYC spends more than one half million dollars per incarcerated inmate per year - or more than $1,500 per day spent in jail.
Demographics: More work hours or more immigration
True, kind of. But not enough skilled workers willing to move elsewhere. Instead, we are going to see a LOT of automation.
Demographics, Education: College enrollments to start dropping faster in 2025
The number of kids born from the 2008 Great Recession onward began a sharp fall off. That cohort is set to start college in the next few years: College enrollment…
Greenland ice sheet
Greenland ice sheet found to have had significant melt in the past, long before modern CO2 emissions, contradicting assumption it was always stable.
Public Health: Oregon really did shut down non-emergency health care in 2020
Every time I mention Oregon's shutting down non-emergency health care in Mar'20, some idiot tells me this is not true. No, it was absolutely true.
Demographics, Education: The Higher Education “Enrollment cliff” approaches
Colleges, facing the demographic cliff, think they can persuade more of the smaller cohorts to attend college. But that's not what surveys of young people think will happen.
Demographics: Immigration to be sole source of population growth in coming decades (for rich countries)
Wealthy countries' population growth will soon come exclusively from immigration.