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Business: “Microsoft announces new investment in ChatGPT” – this is the 21st century Gold Rush

2023 January 24

OpenAI works closely with Microsoft’s cloud service Azure. In July 2019, Microsoft backed OpenAI with $1 billion, and the investment made Microsoft the “exclusive” provider of cloud computing services to…

Software/Tech

Tech: Consumers lack interest in VR

2023 January 24

A total of 61% non-users say they are not interested in trying VR. Why is VR growth so slow despite its possibilities? Source: CES 2023 revealed multiple VR headsets, but…

Follow up Public Health/Nutrition

Public health hilarity: “Has California avoided another devastating winter COVID wave?”

2023 January 23

The holiday superspreader meme was wrong (as all expert projections have been). This was due to “the power of the tools” available to California public health – like wearing masks…

Demographics

Demographics: “Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate – BBC News”

2023 January 23

Fumio Kishida says Japan is on the verge of not being able to function. Source: Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate – BBC News The…

Follow up Public Health/Nutrition

2nd Follow Up: RSV, Flu and Covid all trending downwards

2023 January 21

A rough respiratory virus season in the US appears to be easing, as three major respiratory viruses that have battered the country for the past few months are finally all…

Business Media Policy/Government

Tech: Media confusion on H-1B visas among widespread tech job layoffs

2023 January 20

Between Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), about 100,000 workers were just laid off. I’m so old, l remember last week (Jan 12) when they needed to hire more temporary imported…

Crime/Corruption Economy Public Health/Nutrition

Public health: “25% of the US National Debt Incurred During Trump Administration”

2023 January 20

This financial disaster was due to public health “Experts” who thought they could shut down the world with ineffective NPIs and stop the spread of a highly contagious virus –…

Emerging Technology Software/Tech

Tech: The VR metaverse workplace doesn’t actually work

2023 January 20

Anyone who has used VR is aware of these problems: “I am totally immersed in the metaverse, have a big headset on, and then I need to take off the…

Economy

Economy: Understanding How the Federal Reserve Creates Money

2023 January 19

Does the Fed Print Money? No. The actual printing of paper money is handled by the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The U.S. Mint produces the country’s coins.14…

Demographics

Demographics: Oregon public school enrollment plunges

2023 January 19

They’ve blamed Covid school closures, more students being home schooled, more students going to “virtual schools” but … The full extent of enrollment declines can’t be chalked up to families…

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Special Topics

  • The Practice of Factfulness
  • “Boomers” versus “Gen Z” today – life in the '70s compared to today
  • SCAMS to avoid
  • Public Health Harmed Trust in Science
  • "Blue zones" are based on bad records
  • Is “pretty privilege” on social media real? (yes!)
  • Media: Who Reports the News?
  • The Accidental Vegetarian
  • Lipid/cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease questioned
  • “They Did Everything Right” and had a heart attack
  • Election 2024
  • Most retirees doing “okay financially”
  • AVOID YI AND KAMI SECURITY CAMERAS

Dangerous Books

  • The Homocysteine Revolution, by Kilmer McCully, M.D.
  • The Heart Revolution, by Kilmer McCully, M.D.
  • Factfulness, by Dr. Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk, by Dr. Judith Curry
  • Expired: Covid the untold story, by Dr. Clare Craig
  • Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet, by Marian L. Tupy, Ph.D., Gale L. Pooley, Ph.D.
  • Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classifications in America by Prof. David E. Bernstein, JD

Climate

I have done a LOT to reduce carbon emissions, but climate hypocrites, and unworkable and unsustainable proposals to fix things have evolved my perspective.

  • What We Did to Reduce Emissions
  • The media lied about Phoenix temperatures
  • Climate Hypocrites, Part 1
  • Climate Hypocrites, Part 2
  • What Experts Say We Must Do
  • Climate, Wildfires: Is everything a single variable problem?
  • Media running out of superlatives and adjectives for climate
  • Climate is no longer a factor in our choices

Media

  • Myths widely promoted by news media
  • How to Show You Know Nothing of History

Covid-19

  • Covid Hypocrites, Part 1
  • Covid Hypocrites, Part 2
  • Elite Experts who "did beyond everything right" and still got Covid-19
  • Courts rule against Covid-19 public health restrictions
  • 2006: Global pandemic experts found most pandemic mitigations do not work
  • 2019: World Health Organization found most pandemic policies do not work
  • 2019: WHO: Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza
  • 2020: CDC: Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures
  • 2023: Cochrane Review: Do physical measures such as hand-washing or wearing masks stop or slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?

International

  • Why you need global skills
  • The "World Happiness Index" is nonsense

Retirement

Are you saving too much for retirement? Very likely and partly because you'll spend less than expected.

Series

  • Population Demographics
  • College Degrees no longer as useful?
  • "Follow Up" - prediction failures
  • Public Health Nonsense

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