In the New Cold War, elections around the world are now viewed in the West as existential battles between good and evil, between the West’s “freedom” and the “authoritarianism” of Moscow and Beijing. So it was in Georgia, the small...
Conor here: Entirely unsurprising, especially if you read Lambert’s Oct. 24 piece “Biden Bets on “Let ‘Er Rip” with a SECOND Pandemic-Grade Virus: H5N1 (“Bird Flu”).” That dealt largely with cattle. The following piece shows the situation with humans is...
The first marine fish driven to extinction by humans BBC (Robin K) The fermented crescent aeon (Anthony L) 1st wheel was invented 6,000 years ago in the Carpathian Mountains, modeling study suggests LiveScience (Kevin W) Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette...
By Cate Mingoya-LaFortune, a people-centered climate adaptation planner, community organizer, educator, parent, and cautious optimist. Raised in an environmental justice neighborhood, Mingoya-LaFortune is committed to furthering a future where all people live in clean, thriving communities. She currently serves as...
Yves here. As Lambert might say, “BWHAHAH!” But it would have been nice if challenges of “misinformation” came earlier and often. By Sara Talpos, a contributing editor at Undark. Originally published at Undark In June, the journal Nature published a...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. For readers who don’t know what HICPAC (Healthcare Infection Control and Prevention Advisory Committee) is, we’ll get to that in Section 1 below. On Stafford Beers’ principle that “The purpose of a system is what...
The Central Bank of Russia today raised the policy rate from 19% to 21%. That’s assuming (1) adaptive expectations, and (2) the inflation rate is accurately measured. (h/t Anders Aslund) One might suspect that y/y inflation through September was actually...
Three month growth rate 2.7% ann’d, 3 month diffusion index at 48. Figure 1: 3 month annualized growth rate in the Coincident Index for the US (blue, left scale), 3 month growth rate diffusion index (tan, right scale). NBER defined...
Today we are pleased to present a guest contribution by James Cabral (University of Toronto) and Walter Steingress (University of Wisconsin). The views expressed are solely those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the institutions they are associated...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Common Nightingale, Piran, Slovenia. * * * In Case You Might Miss… Friday: RCP poll (Trump leads), new Covid table (good news). Pennsylvania round-up. “Daddy’s home”. Boeing losing a billion...
