November 2023

Press Freedom Index

Index | RSF

Rule of Law Index

WJP Rule of Law Index | Global Insights (worldjusticeproject.org)

Female Human Rights in the USA

A-Shadow-Cedaw-for-the-United-States-FOR-WEB.pdf (tamu.edu)

John Fremont’s Expeditions

John C. Frémont – Wikipedia

Genetic Influence on Political Views

Rose McDermott at The Interval at Long Now | San Francisco

Epigenetics and Public Health Policy

Epigenetics in the Neoliberal “Regime of Truth”: A Biopolitical Perspective on Knowledge Translation – PubMed (nih.gov)

Neo Darwin, an Updated Quote

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its dissipative powers, having been originally induced into many forms of far from equilibrium dissipative systems; and that, whilst irreversible processes on this planet have produced entropy…

Low US Financial Literacy

Financial Literacy in America (cnbc.com)   Financial Literacy in the United States.pdf (milkeninstitute.org)   Looking on the (B)right Side of Life: Cognitive Ability and Miscalibrated Financial Expectations (sagepub.com)  

Canadian Life Expectancy Still Falling

Canadian life expectancy falls for third year in a row in 2022: StatCan | National Post

Low US Civics Knowledge

National Survey Finds Just 1 in 3 Americans Would Pass Citizenship Test – Institute for Citizens & Scholars (citizensandscholars.org)

Early Colonial Culture

The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History | History| Smithsonian Magazine Murder of Natives by Myles Standish rocked New England in 1623 (seacoastonline.com)

Income Inequality and Happiness

Income Inequality Makes Whole Countries Less Happy (hbr.org)

Election Denial in the USA

States United Action Releases First Election Denier Landscape for 2023 and 2024 Cycles – States United Democracy Center Since 2020, at least 42 states have had an Election Denier run for at least one of the statewide offices that…

Homicide Rates of the US Western Frontier

Tables for Homicide Rates in the West 8-2010.doc (live.com) The Deep Roots of American Violence | Howard Smead  

Assets Held by the Bottom 50% FRED Quarter 2 2023

Share of Total Assets Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles) (WFRBSB50189) | FRED | St. Louis Fed (stlouisfed.org)   Share of Financial Assets Held by the 50th to 90th Wealth Percentiles (WFRBSN40166) | FRED | St.…

O3 and Biodiversity; Science Advances 2020

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Aging in America

Why is Getting Old So Hard and Expensive in America? New Book Challenges How We Think. | Institute for New Economic Thinking (ineteconomics.org)

Ageism, and it’s Costs. JAMA: Levy: Yale School of Public Health

levy_2022_ic_210332_1643816444.50157.pdf (silverchair.com)

Vaccine Hesitancy and Cognitive Function PubMed

Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: cohort study – PubMed (nih.gov)

Brain Drain, College Degree Holders and Geographic Mobility The New Republic

The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. | The New Republic

Maternity Care Deserts, a National Level Public Health Issue

Maternity Care Deserts Report | March of Dimes

Research Fraud and Disincentives in US Science Funding

Why Research Fraud Is Getting Worse — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal (jamesgmartin.center)

Misinformation and Disinformation and the Effects on Voting Preference PLOS

Cognitive ability and voting behaviour in the 2016 UK referendum on European Union membership | PLOS ONE

US Male Life Expectancy Dropping Faster than Female

An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

An Update to the Limits to Growth Journal of Industrial Ecology

Update to limits to growth (stanford.edu)

The 5 Covid-19 Types (so far) Science Direct

Classification of five SARS-CoV-2 serotypes based on RBD antigenicities – ScienceDirect

Deadly TB on the Rise

Study IDs why some TB bacteria prove deadly – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (wustl.edu)

Video on the possible transition to a post fossil fuel economy

Stormy Seas Ahead?

How global warming shakes the Earth: Seismic data show ocean waves gaining strength as the planet warms (theconversation.com)  

Thermodynamics, Dissipative Structures, Evolution, and Entropy

Traduction3 (francois-roddier.fr)  

Thunderstorm Wind Intensity and Scope Changing?

Thunderstorm straight line winds intensify with climate change | Nature Climate Change

Global Warming in the Pipeline 11 2023

Global warming in the pipeline | Oxford Open Climate Change | Oxford Academic (oup.com) Note, download the PDF LS