Yves here. Readers regularly give updates on the crapification of medicine, mainly from the patient but sometimes the provider side. A big driver is insurance: obstacles like pre-approvals or other…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers will recall the previous two posts in what became this series: My Life So Far in Writing Tools, where tools were very analog printed…
Lambert here, speculating freely: The world-systems analyst Giovanni Arrighi argued (I paraphrase from memory) that the “center of gravity,” as it were, of capitalism moved in a spiral pattern from…
I’ve covered the Zangezur Corridor in southern Armenia with some regularity here. It’s a short 42-kilometer strip of land link in a trade and energy route that stretches the length…
One set of writers on the left and another on the right lay out competing visions for what the next president should do.
What is the piebald deer, the rare animal recently spotted in Western Pennsylvania? CBS Pittsburgh Kentucky Man Declared Brain Dead Wakes Up Moments Before Organ Harvesting ZME Science How Zombies…
Yves here. KLG, drawing on the ideas of Elinor Olstrom, argues that the thinking that got us into our current mess, particularly but not solely climate climate change and environmental…
Yves here. This Richard Murphy post makes an important and often overlooked point: the roles that small and large enterprises play are fundamentally different, and that has policy implications. But…
Yves here. We published a GPENewsdoc piece on AI synthetic biology which highlighted key risks. Sadly the post got very comments, perhaps because readers found the discussion to be too…
Lambert here: Seems appropriate…. By Mark Robert Rank, Professor of Social Welfare, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Reposted from Alternet. A century ago, French writer and…