Taurine and Aging
Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging | Science
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Panics and Manias and Veblen Goods, Oh My
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…
Read MoreWestern Spirit
Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads
Read MoreThe Gods Must be Crazy, Tales of Hollywood
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…
Read MoreHigher Education: Win, Zero-Sum, or Negative Utility?
All of that can make for a very short stint in trying to effect a better future or even one slightly less dire. LS
Read MoreUS Housing Costs in 2023 as a Portion of Income
Renter Cost-Burden Shares Remain High | Joint Center for Housing Studies (harvard.edu) Home Price-to-Income Ratio Reaches Record High | Joint Center for Housing Studies (harvard.edu) America’s Rental Housing 2024 (harvard.edu)…
Read More“Democracy” in America
Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders | Brennan Center for Justice
Read MoreHaley Proposes an Increased Retirement Age
Assuming you are a man with average SES, average earnings, and education, at 70 there is a 50% chance you would live 13 years in the pre covid era. This Stange virus is still increasing mortality and morbidity with each infection. A male…
Read MoreEMP and Power Grids, a Vital National Security Need
Protecting America’s Power Grids From EMP Attacks (forbes.com) If someone could alert the US Government that spending on grid hardening/cyber-attacks could possibly save more than 100,000,0000 lives for relatively short money. A wise…
Read MoreThe Red Cross Disaster Pro Publica
The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster — ProPublica
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