Even cooler insights: On the power of forests to (water the Earth and) cool the planet (unibe.ch) WAAS Talks on Science for Human Security: Natural Geoengineering Methods for Cooling the Planet (youtube.com) Human domination of the…
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New Research from Antarctica Affirms The Threat of the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ But Funding to Keep Studying it Is Running Out – Inside Climate News In Florida I see near zero support for a public policy of a strategic retreat to higher…
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The international division of labor and embodied working time in trade for the US, the EU and China (sciencedirectassets.com)
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Surging home insurance costs could force families to leave these 10 states | Fox Business As actually existing perils are factored into insurance policies, including earthquake, wildfire, hurricane, etc risk and they are factored into…
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First-in-humans discovery reveals brain chemicals at work influencing social behavior (medicalxpress.com)
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Depopulation and associated challenges for US cities by 2100 | Nature Cities
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Can Anything Good Come from Gaza? How Western Science is Collapsing. (substack.com)
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Will Congress ever create a new independent agency to store nuclear waste permanently? | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)
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Scientists’ warning on affluence | Nature Communications
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‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts | Health | The Guardian
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Belief in Fake News is Associated with Delusionality, Dogmatism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Reduced Analytic Thinking – ScienceDirect
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The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A “Miyake Event” Would Be Far Worse – JSTOR Daily
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‘To kill a program’: Duke to close herbarium after over 100 years of operation – The Chronicle (dukechronicle.com) Are Herbaria Still Relevant in the 21st Century? | Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (asu.edu There was more…
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Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisc o (lrb.co.uk) I used to be proud of being from the San Francisco Bay Area. I thought of this place in terms of liberation and protection; we were where the…
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Hospitals Deny Immunocompromised Patients’ ADA Requests For Masks (forbes.com) We have attacked both human and civil rights for so long abroad, it is not unexpected to see the erosion here, in our face, as well. Justice is atrophying…
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Collier County taking fluoride out of water supply (fox4now.com) Sometimes an ounce (5 cents a month per housing unit) of prevention saves a pound of (dental) cure. The per capita person income of Collier County (Naples) was over $131,000…
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How Accurate Are Retirees’ Assessments of Their Retirement Risk? (bc.edu) 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Risk Decision Making – SafetyRisk.net
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Megafauna Impact Theory: A Paradigm Shift in Ecosystem Dynamics (scitechdaily.com) Whales are the engineers of their ecosystems (whalescientists.com)
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I decided to sign up for a Zoom meeting with these air quality scientists on 2-14. I want to see their modeling for the air quality in the future. Obviously, it will be impacted by more wildfires. LS Climate change reversing gains in air…
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Secularism and tolerance of minority groups predicts future prosperity of countries (phys.org)
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Mysterious Materialism | Do the Math (ucsd.edu)
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Study Confirms COVID Drove Unaccounted Mortality Surge – Neuroscience News Excess natural-cause mortality in US counties and its association with reported COVID-19 deaths (pnas.org)
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Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course (science.org) Hopefully, when this does occur, it will prevent the formation of one single NH zone from the now current 3 zones. It is supposed to strengthen the…
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Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging | Science
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America’s Most Expensive Home for Sale Hits the Market for $295 Million – WSJ Donahue invented mutual funds. Each grandchild gets a cool $1 million at 18 or 21. I have been by there numerous times on a boat and just walking to the…
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A very recent OECD skills study showed that citizens, age 16-65, of the USA scored 19th of 20 nations in the adjusted mean numeracy test and 18 of 21 in literacy. For young people age 16-24 in the numeracy test the USA was 24 of 24, and…
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42% do not have a retirement account, but of those who do: For middle-income Americans, those in the 40th to 60th percentile by income, the median retirement plan held just $39,000 Note currently it takes about $100,000 to buy an single…
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Social Security Claiming Decisions: Survey Evidence (nber.org)
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Supporting-Document-To-Rolling-The-DICE-How-Did-We-Get-Here.pdf (carbontracker.org)
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TGS, 108 Steve Keen Transcript.docx (squarespace.com) Steve Keen: “On the Origins of Energy Blindness” | The Great Simplification a PDF and a podcast and a YouTube, as you like LS
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https://www.unm.edu/%7Ejdelong/delong2008oik.pdf
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Eugene Odum – Wikipedia
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Systems theory – Wikipedia
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Emergence – Wikipedia
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My God: It’s Evolution! | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu)
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Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads
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I must say, the USA believes the friggin wholesale business is by definition orders of magnitude morally superior to retail. We also think Christianity is superior to Judaism. When Jews try their hand at our business, we have some strong…
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A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) We are a story telling species. Stories about “god s” gave selective advantage to groups, who developed greater internal altruism. It rolled the dice in their favor in out group…
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All of that can make for a very short stint in trying to effect a better future or even one slightly less dire. LS
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