Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Is There a Covid Wastewater Spike in New York City?

 

at 6/4/23 1:55pm

Spoiler alert: yes. Though it's not easy!

[Category: Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic]

— Links 6/4/2023

 

at 6/4/23 4:55am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage

 

at 6/4/23 4:50am

In what’s known as the Medicaid unwinding, states are combing through rolls and deciding who stays and who goes. People who are no longer eligible or don’t complete paperwork in time will be dropped.

[Category: Health care, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class]

— Links 6/3/2023

 

at 6/3/23 4:58am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual

 

at 6/3/23 4:15am

Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.

[Category: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Moral hazard, Politics, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class]

— NYC Sheriff Miranda Hawked ‘Gimmick’ COVID Protection Just Before Mayor Adams Hired Him

 

at 6/3/23 4:04am

Anthony Miranda touted the ‘virus buster’ with a convicted racketeer and a Queens business leader embroiled in an Elon Musk-imposter spectacle

[Category: Banana republic, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams]

— A Musical Interlude of Many Instruments

 

at 6/3/23 3:22am

Now for somthing completely different...on the musical front.

[Category: Curiousities, Guest Post]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/2/2023

 

at 6/2/23 12:00pm

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine

 

at 6/2/23 7:55am

The ranks of Ukraine and US hegemony believers are starting to thin. But not soon enough.

[Category: China, Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Russia]

— Links 6/2/2023

 

at 6/2/23 4:58am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— EU’s COVID-19 Vaccine Procurement Scandal Continues to Grow Despite Deafening Media Silence

 

at 6/2/23 4:45am

"Under Commission President von der Leyen, the tendency of EU institutions (and officials) to evade their due accountability by collectively hiding behind a democracy-defying bulwark of opacity has reached alarming proportions."

[Category: Guest Post]

— “Lessons for a Pandemic”

 

at 6/2/23 4:00am

Lessons learned, and not, from a pandemic that isn't over.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Regulations and regulators]

— The Grid Needs A $20 Trillion Upgrade To Support Energy Transition

 

at 6/2/23 1:06am

Inadequate grid capacity all over the globe raises doubts about the viability of green energy plans, at least at scale.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Energy markets, Environment, Globalization, Guest Post, Infrastructure, Regulations and regulators]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 6/1/2023

 

at 6/1/23 12:00pm

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Amid Global Debate, UN Plastics Treaty at Risk of Falling Short

 

at 6/1/23 7:55am

The war on plastics has put recycling in its crosshairs.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Guest Post, Regulations and regulators]

— Links 6/1/2023

 

at 6/1/23 4:58am

[Category: Guest Post, Links]

— The Loss of Executive Function in the West

 

at 6/1/23 4:15am

On the decay of executive function, or why just about no one seems able to manage his way out of a paper bag.

[Category: Corporate governance, Doomsday scenarios, Free markets and their discontents, Global warming, Globalization, Politics, Social policy, Social values]

— The Assisted Dying Debate Is Really About How We Treat the Living

 

at 6/1/23 4:04am

A recent push to legalize assisted dying in France obscures more fundamental problems that plague end-of-life care.

[Category: Europe, Guest Post, Health care, Legal, Social policy, Social values]

— Our Disappearing Shoreline

 

at 6/1/23 3:43am

A brief look at the process of shoreline erosion.

[Category: Doomsday scenarios, Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Science and the scientific method]

— 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/31/2023

 

at 5/31/23 12:00pm

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

[Category: Guest Post, Water Cooler]

— Mood-Altering Mushroom Sales Bloom Despite Safety Concerns

 

at 5/31/23 7:55am

upposedly psychoactive mushroooms are now widely availalble in the US, with no supervision of potency or purity.

[Category: Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Risk and risk management]

As of 6/5/23 1:04am. Last new 6/4/23 2:26pm.