Finance: Are you saving too much for retirement? Probably.
Previously: The fundamental question is – “Should you save when you are relatively poor so you can have more when you are relatively rich?” This week: This week’s latest on…
Demographics, Media: “Staggering visualization shows the world’s population at 8 billion”
The reporter is 100% unaware of the global decline in fertility rates and as a consequence writes a scary headline news report that is disinformation: And, looking at those numbers,…
Public Health: Public Health lacks self-awareness
Public health has often said, in so many words, if we’d been more like China we would have stopped Covid, oblivious and unaware of their own past statements, and disconnected…
Life: Minimalism is Still Dead
Minimalism is the practice of decluttering one’s life – and many adherents took it to extremes, limiting themselves to owning an arbitrary 100 to 200 items and living in barren…
Science: Was Hurricane Ian caused by human induced climate change?
Many media stories and talking heads on TV say Hurricane Ian’s destruction is a symptom of human-induced climate change, and that hurricanes are getting worse. NOAA is considered an authoritative…
Health: Our brain “re-wires” after about age 40
“Older adults tend to show less flexible thinking, such as forming new concepts and abstract thinking, lower response inhibition, as well as lower verbal and numeric reasoning,” the reviewers noted.…
Environment: Solutions need to be sustainable and not lead to a lower quality of life
During the pandemic, public health was quick to institute numerous restrictions on our lives – restrictions that their own prior published research said did not work at all, only worked…
Automation: Chipotle testing automated tortilla chip making machine for restaurants
Duh: A Chipotle restaurant in California will test a robot to make its chips to combat a minimum wage bill that Gavin Newsom (D-CA) recently signed. Chipotle had previously tested…
Aviation: Electric Passenger Plane prototype makes first flight at Moses Lake, WA
Source: Prototype electric airplane takes first flight in Washington state – oregonlive.com