Link. There’s evidence it’s not true. Which means a reboot awaits.
Daily Archives: September 5, 2021
“The economy, though its growth has been unsteady over the past decade, is five times the size it was in the early 2000s. Once scarce in most places, electricity is now widely available. Smartphones and internet access are common.”
Link. The Taliban rule a different country.
“In Brazil, which had a slow, chaotic vaccine rollout, nearly 64 percent of the population has received at least one dose of a vaccine, a rate that exceeds that of the United States”
Link. Maybe we really are finished.
“And as for our recruiting at UT Austin … I fear we might as well now be trying to recruit colleagues to Kabul University.”
Link. Texas has rarely been less appealing. And that’s saying a lot.
Climate adaptation: New Orleans is doomed.
Link. Everything is of course, but NO is doomed sooner than most. At some point we give up on new levees and pay people to move.
After COVID: how much protection to provide against infecting the vulnerable?
Link. The tectonic plates of the social contract shift. Fodder for some good class discussions.
Mass sociogenic illness: “In March 2021, physicians described in the British Medical Journal an influx of young females to their clinics presenting with tic-like symptoms.”
Link. It’s a thing among 20s teens.
Also why Long COVID is a harder problem than non-physicians imagine.
Review of air traveler misbehavior: not just COVID.
Link. Crowding, growing obesity, maybe aging all a factor. Lowering plane temperatures and stopping alcohol sales at airports and planes would help.