By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Sedge Warbler, Parque Ambiental de Vilamoura, Loulé, Faro, Portugal. “Fotos e vocalizações a adicionar.Aves a vocalizar ao mesmo tempo em sítios diferentes.” A child’s bicycle horn in there, somewhere? *...
1. In a new study, male sperm counts are not dropping. It seems this has been a myth all along. 2. Brian Potter on AI data centers. 3. Do elephants have individual names? (NYT) 4. Missouri restaurant bans women under...
Out of curiosity, I peruse the web to see who is still saying a recession is coming (with an open mind). This tweet suggests retail sales are the indicator de jour: Source: Alex Joosten (2024). Pretty convincing, for the past...
I do not know. Am I wrong to think that in optimal contracts theory there should be payments going in both directions, as there is a dual agency relationship? Of course optimal contracts theory often fails. Ben Thompson has a...
The far right surges, says the BBC and CNN, but the center holds. The far right wreaks havoc, but thankfully the center holds, echoes the New York Times. “…it looks like the constructive, pro-European centre has held,” European Parliament President...
“Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance!” After running pilot tests in Brazil and parts of the Asia Pacific for roughly two years, Mastercard is finally rolling out its biometric retail payments system in Europe. The world’s largest payment...
Jerry Z. Muller, author of the classic The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, is my favorite intellectual historian. Evidently I am not alone as the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance has brought together Five Essays by Muller, these...
Early morning frost spotted on some of Mars’s huge mountains The Guardian Satellites spot strange sky glow that only comes out after midnight New Atlas Climate/Environment Mortality attributable to PM2.5 from wildland fires in California from 2008 to 2018 Science....
Yves here. It is odd how little attention Russia’s campaign against Ukraine’s electric grid is getting, given that it is the sort of blow that the West and Ukraine can’t stop or even blunt. The kinetic war is getting vastly...
Conor here: In addition to prolonging oil production as the following piece lays out, there are also major risks from the pipelines that carry the captured CO2 to where it’s pumped back into the ground.From Bold Nebraska: In the event...
