Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Anthony Leonardi writes about the reality that COVID-19 is intrinsically more harmful than “ordinary” respiratory viruses due to its continuing effect on the immune system. And Chinta Sardathan discusses new research showing that the fallout from COVID infection includes higher rates of dementia

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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Cordell Jacks writes about the need for an economic model which evolves beyond the short-term exploitation of people and the planet. And Jessica McKenzie interviews Charlotte Kukowski about the importance of reprioritizing in the context of readily-apparent feedback loops between inequality and the

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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links

Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Claude Lavoie examines the problems with the far-too-rarely-questioned assumption that public policy needs to be oriented toward top-end economic growth at the expense of human well-being and environmental sustainability.  – George Monbiot calls out how the wealthiest few have torqued the law to

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A Puff of Absurdity: The Hot Model

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think!  Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist and science communicator, posted this 20 minute video: “I wasn’t worried about climate change. Now I am.” She describes the “hot model” that people originally questioned because it seemed so impossible that we’d go beyond 5°C this century, but now

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A Puff of Absurdity: Climate Memes

I know weather is different from climate, but it feels like April outside today.  All the snow’s melting (at least we got some snow after a very green Christmas), and I started peeling off layers as I walked.  Leon Simons (the “gentleman” climate scientist, not the Snowfall character) created the meme above. When

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Accidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links

Assorted content to end your week. – Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg examines why seemingly healthy macroeconomic indicators – and even  positive personal expectations – haven’t translated into public satisfaction with political economic leaders. But Dougald Lamont is setting out how our economic system has been torqued at the behest of corporate robber

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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tim Murphy discusses the many similarities between Russia’s oligarchs and the U.S.’ – including how both take advantage of deliberate policy choices to facilitate the concentration of wealth in secret. And Kevin Kharas’ interview with Bertrand Monnet includes the recognition that their shared

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