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A Meta TourH5N1, an Evolving Threat
How to Handle the Bird Flu: America Must Prepare for the Next Possible Pandemic (foreignaffairs.com)
CDC Again Responds to Political Pressure, not Science.
Public Health Advocates Decry CDC’s Weakened Pandemic Guidelines | Truthout
Rate of Travel 1857
Heatwave Area and Intensity Increasing Since 1979
Anthropogenic forcing has increased the risk of longer-traveling and slower-moving large contiguous heatwaves (science.org)
Cattle vs Colorado River
Cattle are drinking the Colorado River dry - High Country News (hcn.org)
American Exceptionalism and Midlife Mortality
OP-IJEJ240024 1..9 (silverchair.com) US exceptionalism? International trends in midlife mortality | International Journal of Epidemiology | Oxford Academic (oup.com) dyae024_supplementary_data.pdf (silverchair-cdn.com)
US Retirement System Now at a C+
Americans’ Retirement Savings Fall Short By Nearly $500,000 (forbes.com) This means that 40 years after the 401(k) plan came on the scene — ushering in an era of voluntary, financialized, and individual-driven retirement — the American system is failing. The Mercer...
US Mortality Disadvantage and YLL Disadvantage PNAS Nexus
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/6/pgad173/7185600
The Human Gut’s Connection to Addictive Personality Nature 2024
Could the gut give rise to alcohol addiction? (nature.com)
Speed Bumps on the Energy Road Ahead
The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics | The Tyee
Telomere Shortening with Covid-19 Infections
IJMS | Free Full-Text | Evidence for Biological Age Acceleration and Telomere Shortening in COVID-19 Survivors (mdpi.com)
Walkable Area Benefits
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets (fastcompany.com)
Medical Science Skepticism
Skeptical of medical science reports? - PMC (nih.gov)
Free Will?
As If You Had a Choice | STANFORD magazine Robert Sapolsky: "The Brain, Determinism, and Cultural Implications” | The Great Simplification
Corporate Tax Revenues Relative to GDP
Corporate Tax Statistics 2023 | Corporate Tax Statistics | OECD iLibrary (oecd-ilibrary.org) The USA's corporate tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is 105 or 115 nations. Note also that in 2022 the USA had the next to lowest marginal corporate tax rate. We are between...
Alzheimer’s and Air Pollution
Magnetite pollution is damaging our brains and causing Alzheimer's (newatlas.com)
Urban Sprawl and Female BMI
AJPH20112387_James 369..375 (nih.gov) We found an inverse relationship between the county sprawl index and BMI and positive associations between the county sprawl index and physical activity, indicating that women who lived in denser counties with more accessible...
3rd Shift and Life Expectancy
Night work, mortality, and the link to occupational group and sex - PMC (nih.gov) Does Long-Term Shift Work Increase the Risk of Dementia? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Yang Hai, Ying Xue, Yu-hong Wang, 2022 (sagepub.com)