Opinion: Practicing Factfulness, Sometimes satire and parody.
In the U.S., and most of the world, our societies are amazingly global, with widespread travel and trade between countries, and immigration of workers (especially) between countries. Here I summarize…
CDC now thinks lockdowns and ineffective NPIs are the cause of today’s rise in Step A, flu and RSV cases (which started early this season but appear to have peaked…
The U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday that it intends to purchase at least 66,000 electric delivery vehicles as part of a push to transform its delivery fleet. Source: Postal Service…
India has 5 times more people in the critical 20-29 age bracket. Stated another way, the top 20% of the young Indian cohort is the same size as that entire…
In 14 states, unemployment benefits and ACA subsidies for a family of four with two people not working amounts to an annualized equivalent of $80,000 a year in wages and…
Am expecting this blog to be censored and thrown offline very soon. Passing along good news is forbidden. The estimated decline at the end is due to Covid pandemic.
When “triple demic” and “tri-demic” were not scary enough! According to Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine, there are seven respiratory viruses infecting people in large numbers this…
Earth could lose 10 per cent of all plant and animal species by 2050, rising to 27 per cent by 2100, say scientists at the European Commission and Flinders University,…
Four materials rank highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia are needed in larger quantities…
At some businesses visited in the past 3 months, a 25% tip was implied as standard. This is getting out of hand. But tipping service workers was essentially built into…