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Physicists see electronic whirlpools for the first time News from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are here:
How Antarctic krill coordinate the world’s largest swarms Scientific American
The data does not confirm the recession in the US (video) Barry Ritholz, The Big Picture. On the tight labor market:
Do you know who had (has?) the highest covid rates? Not nurses or other healthcare workers (as one might assume), but *restaurant kitchen staff*. https://t.co/cj1dovHtpS
Share “Audley, my pancake brother” (@AudleyZDarke) July 6, 2022
We are not in recession yet Real clean markets
Worst for financial markets 6 months The wealth of common sense
Copper crash deepens as recession fears hang over metals trade Bloomberg
Climate
The infamous 1972 report warning of the collapse of civilization (interview) Wired. “Politically, at the corporate level, at the official level, things are going the wrong way. Culturally, below the line, I’m sure a lot is going in a good direction. The human revolution is already happening – we just don’t see it.” “Notorious” is really the wrong word. How about “real”?
Failing US Climate Leadership Raises Concerns Over COP27 Summit FT
‘In the mouth of dragons’: Melting glaciers threaten northern Pakistanh Agence France Presse
Over the tropics discovered a “huge” unexpected ozone hole Independent
# COVID-19
COVID-19 deaths linked to falling US life expectancy Center for Research and Policy in Infectious Diseases. Everything goes according to plan.
The analysis shows that Omicron COVID waves have caused low-income Ontarians to die more frequently. Toronto Star
* * * Have COVID vaccination mandates worked? What the Data Says Nature
A Moment of Vaccine Uncertainty NEZHM
The mysterious disappearance of MIS-S Munro report. Good news!
* * * Vacationers warned about the increase in the incidence of coronavirus in European countries Keeper (Re Silc). It’s very unfortunate that international air travel is one huge super-spreading event, but here we are.
New sub-variant of Covid-19 Omicron BA.2.75 found in countries like India: WHO Tribune. The Covid train always leaves on time and there is always another train coming.
monkeypox
Monkeypox cases in New York doubled in a week, more vaccines coming in days NBC
Labcorp Offers Monkeypox Testing as part of U.S. Diagnosis Effort Bloomberg
China?
Shanghai chases COVID karaoke cluster as China seeks to curb outbreaks Reuters
How a Chinese tycoon derailed the nickel market and survived a $1 billion loss South China Morning Post
China Police Database Opened Online for Over a Year, Leaking Information WSJ
Taiwan and the Creation of an “Asian” NATO Black Agenda Report
Syria
Parsi: new sanctions against Iran could mean the death of the JCPOA Responsible public administration
UK / EU
Boris Johnson to step down as prime minister as government collapses FT. Larry the Cat has views:
Conservatives under Boris Johnson sow: “This is brilliant! Yes! “
Conservatives under Boris Johnson are reaping: “We don’t care at all.”— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 7, 2022
Johnson, His Fall London Review of Books
The split French parliament gave the new prime minister difficulties during the first speech euronews
New not-so-cold war
How to arm Ukraine to break the blockade of the Black Sea Foreign policy. From the Hudson Institute.
Russia to take part in G20 meeting dominated by Ukrainian conflict Reuters
Russia is preparing to mobilize the economy for a protracted war in Ukraine FT
Biden administration
Democrats Schumer and Manchin strike to cut drug costs for older people ABC news. Allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices.
We want to restore US relations with China WSJ
Officials ask if Biden’s top diplomat in Mexico has gone too far? NEW
abortion
Supreme
The dark truth behind the SCOTUS decision Washer. “The conservative judges bent on overthrowing Roe are also the epitome of a relentless fifty-year political campaign.” Something that the Democratic Party cannot even imagine, let alone accomplish.
Curbing the fourth branch of government RealClearPolitics
Republicans may be ready for a showdown with the Supreme Court Noah Millman, New York Times
History, Supreme Court and Dobbs v. Jackson: AHA and OAH Joint Statement (July 2022) American Historical Association
State Police
Much more could have been done to save the victims of the Uvalda massacre, a new report says. NPR
Bezl
“God, Hwang and Archegos”: insider details of the collapse of the company are revealed in the lawsuit Bloomberg. Family office tricks.
a lack of
Trade restrictions fuel worst food crisis in a decade World Bank Blogs
Global hunger is still an avoidable scourge Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
US diversifies infant formula production to avoid shortages AP
class war
Shareholder power and a shrinking workforce NBER. From the abstract: “According to the theory of the firm based on conflict of interest between shareholders and stakeholders, we find that establishment firms that experience growth in ownership from larger and more concentrated institutional shareholders have lower employment and wages” .
How foreign private capital hooked the New England fishing industry ProPublica
Happiness data that destroys Freud’s theory WSJ
These photos capture the indescribable glory of trains Smithsonian Institution
Walking in Venice Craig Maud
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