Education

Human Flourishing and CO2 Flux to the Global Atmosphere

Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita vs. Human Development Index, 2021 (ourworldindata.org)  

Economics, Donuts and Cuckolds; On the Need to Remove Interlopers From the Nest

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Potential 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

Education, 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…

Deep 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…

Odious 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…

Segregation, Past and Present US Census Bureau

CES-WP-22-14.pdf (census.gov)  

A Timeline of History

US 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 |…

The 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…