By Lambert Strether of Corrente. This post originated in a valiant but doomed effort to determine whether modes of transmission (airborne, fomite, etc.) could be shoehorned into ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification), coded as Y95 (“Nosocomial condition,” where...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers: Yes, as we enter the holiday season, I’m going to lighten up on Water Cooler (which is hard, because the world doesn’t stop being interesting, or volatile, simply because the West has a...
Even if someone time travels, they may not remember or capture it: Study Interesting Engineering How old are you really? Your blood can reveal your biological age — and risk of health problems Study Finds SCIENTISTS SUGGEST HARVESTING BLOOD FROM...
By Ellen Welti, a community ecologist working on grassland insects and plants. She is part of the Great Plains Science Program, based in the prairies of north central Montana. She runs observational monitoring targeting grasshoppers, dung beetles, wolf spiders, plant...
In RealClearPolitics, a provocative thesis, from Vikram Maheshri (U. Houston) and Cliff Winston* (Brookings): The United States experienced a Great Depression during the 1930s causing one-quarter of its workforce to be unemployed. Although not formally recognized, a growing body of...
Dear patient readers, We at Naked Capitalism trust you have a festive or at least a restful holiday season in store. The members of this team, as we customarily do, will try to take a mini-break via a lighter posting...
In the 1970s, the US began loosening restrictions on prison labor while simultaneously starting to attribute homelessness to mental illness and addiction (and ignoring economic factors). Forty-plus years later and those two parallel tracks of neoliberalism are merging and resurrecting...
By Ava Caradonna. Originally published at OpenDemocracy. Anora, this year’s feisty update on the 1990 film Pretty Woman, has become something of a critical darling. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or. Its lead,...
NBER BCDC indicators discussed here. Alternative below. Figure 1: Implied nonfarm Payroll early benchmark (NFP) (bold blue), civilian employment adjusted using CBO immigration estimates (orange), manufacturing production (red), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold green), manufacturing and trade...
