Human Flourishing and CO2 Flux to the Global Atmosphere
Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita vs. Human Development Index, 2021 (ourworldindata.org)
Read MoreEconomics, Donuts and Cuckolds; On the Need to Remove Interlopers From the Nest
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Read MoreThe Late E O Wilson
“We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices…
Read MorePotential Natural Vegetation
vegetation_1970_lg.jpg (3000×1984) (codex99.com) Note climate has changed since this map was produced. Also, there is a greater understanding of how Native Americans changed vegetation type by fire. LS
Read MoreUS Population Density Map From a Decade Ago
Read MoreEducation, Who Is It For?
Florida says school libraries have right to remove LGBTQ books (tallahassee.com) 673 books removed from OCPS classrooms, analysis shows (mynews13.com) Asked what “woke” means more generally, [Desantis’ General Counsel Ryan] Newman…
Read MoreDeep Time
50 years ago, scientists thought they had found Earth’s oldest rocks (sciencenews.org) Single cell life, on Earth has been in existence for 3.7 billion years 17,000 times longer than the recent faith that creation was 6000 years ago. The…
Read MoreOdious Debt and Inadequate Education in Economics
Nigeria 2024 Budget: Debt Costs Pressure Social Spending – Bloombe In 2022 debt servicing used up 96% of government revenue. Perhaps the IMF, the World Bank and other public entities should hire new economists who have a proven…
Read MoreSegregation, Past and Present US Census Bureau
CES-WP-22-14.pdf (census.gov)
Read MoreDescriptions, a Noble Tradition
1. “He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill 3. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.…
Read More“God”
It is good to be fUrther, however. “God” certainly encourages people to be unethical and based on “his” Biblical description, is a sadist and or a sociopath. Now perhaps “he” is schizophrenic as…
Read MoreFemale Millennial Mortality Spikes
US Millennial Women Now More Likely to Die in Early 20s and 30s: Report (businessinsider.com) The death rate has risen in parallel with a startling increase in maternal mortality rates among women aged 25 to 34, with 30.4 deaths due to…
Read MoreTick Tock
Read MoreThe Future of Middle-Income Countries
Middle-Income Countries 2023 (worldpopulationreview.com) Mourning and worrying about the future in rural Egypt | Poverty and Development | Al Jazeera A Modest Proposal; I believe going forward, most households in the world will pay…
Read MoreA Timeline of History
Read MoreUS Veterans and Long Covid JAMA 12 2023
U.S. veterans’ study reveals key insights into Long COVID and protective role of vaccination (news-medical.net) Rates of ICD-10 Code U09.9 Documentation and Clinical Characteristics of VA Patients With Post–COVID-19 Condition |…
Read MoreThe West as Frontier Prologue
Grandin unpacks Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis,” which postulated, much like Madison’s starry-eyed hope a century earlier, that the West gave the republic room to expand, that the territorial breathing room could act as a…
Read MoreHealth Wealth Gap Sapolsky Stanford University
*THE HEALTH-WEALTH GAP (scientificamerican.com)
Read MoreTax Cuts as a Zombie Retort
Keeping tax low for rich does not boost economy (lse.ac.uk)
Read MoreOn the Need for Major Reforms in Science
Americans’ Trust in Scientists and Views of Science Decline in 2023 | Pew Research Center Science is a human right—and its future is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (phys.org) Confessions of a Disillusioned…
Read MoreMost Romantic Small Towns
140 Most Romantic Small Towns in America – New York Travel Guides
Read MoreStrokes and Feelings of Discrimination
New study reveals racism may increase the risk of stroke in Black women (nbcnews.com)
Read MoreHigh Temperature Survival at 6 hours
A physiological approach for assessing human survivability and liveability to heat in a changing climate | Nature Communications
Read MoreA Gap in Logic, Immunity “Debt” and Pseudoscience
Immunity Debt: The Conspiracy Theory Elevated to Popular Pseudoscience That Is Making Children Sick (substack.com)
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