By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. To those who may have thought the absence of Trump tweets means the Republican Party has finally got over him,  I have one word: ha. Two developments during the past week suggest […]

Why Bumblebees Love Cats an Other Beautiful Relationships Longreads The Woke Meritocracy Tablet IN GOOD TASTE: MARILYN STASIO ON A LIFETIME OF BOOK REVIEWS Crime Reads Amanda Gorman says she has declined around $17m in deals since inauguration Guardian B.C. First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans Canada protect crab for Indigenous food, social and ceremonial purposes […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Appliance repair is on my mind at the moment. Why? The dishwasher at our winter rental beach hideaway, where my husband and I have sequestered ourselves to avoid the pandemic, died last […]

By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. I was no fan of money-printing interest-rate-repressing Fed Chair Janet Yellen, though she did hike interest rates and kicked off the Fed’s balance sheet reduction. But she’s now getting huge brownie points as Secretary of the Treasury for trying to deal with the […]

By Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure and climate proposal has a lot of people excited, and no wonder. Americans are sick of being stuck with frazzled electric grids, foul drinking water, falling bridges, far […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a message to U.S. business yesterday that seems to cast him against type. The Washington Post reported: “My warning to corporate America is to stay out […]

3 eggs found, 18 lieutenants lost at base Easter egg hunt Duffel Blog. A couple of days late but still amusing. The Joy and Privilege of Growing Up in an Indie Bookstore Literary Hub The Strange Convulsion in Scottish Politics Craig Murray COPS CROWDFUNDED THEIR K-9’S HOSPITAL BILLS — THEN QUIETLY ADMITTED THEY HAD SHOT […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. I’m not a Manchester United supporter. But I am a big fan of Marcus Rashford. No introduction is needed of this Manchester United and UK national football player for UK readers. I’m […]

By Anis Chowdhury, Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University and University of New South Wales (Australia), who held senior United Nations positions in New York and Bangkok and Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former economics professor, who was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of […]

By Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, UCL, Chris Bullen, Professor of Public Health, University of Auckland, Jeffrey V, Lazarus, Associate Research Professor, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), John N. Lavis, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Informed Health Systems, McMaster University, John Thwaites, Chair, Monash […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. New York became the fifteenth state to join the pot party when governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation on March 31. As The City explains: The historic law, the culmination of drawn-out, fierce […]

Golden Parade: Mummified pharaohs moved to new Cairo home Deutsche Welle Malaysian resort island Langkawi can avoid environmental disaster by making the most of flying lemur and other wildlife’s comeback during Covid-19 travel ban, scientist says South China Morning Post How my uncle dodged death and escaped from East Pakistan to India (with a little […]

By Dan Banik, Professor of political science, Director of the Oslo SDG Initiative, Host of “In Pursuit of Development” podcast, University of Oslo and Renu Modi, Professor in African Studies, University of Mumbai. Originally published at The Conversation. India has stepped up its global ambitions and foreign policy re-engagement with African countries in recent years. Its […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Italian ministers last week approved a ban on cruise ships entering Venice’s Giudecca Canal This measure was enacted in response to a request from UNESCO, and also applies to large container ships, […]

Happy Easter! Spain To Try Nationwide 4-Day Workweek Treehugger Why Did the Slave Trade Survive So Long? New York Review of Books The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope New Yorker The Slow Travel Trend Is Here to Stay Conde Nast Traveler From December, still germane. Farms Are Coming To Cities American Conservative What is Brood […]

By Connor Dunleavy,Yale Climate Connections. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections. WHITTIER, ALASKA – The world’s high-latitude regions experience climate change at a rate twice as fast as the rest of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Prince Williams Sound in South Central Alaska. This shelter body of water off the […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. The Financial Times yesterday published a plea from Indian vaccine manufacturers, who lamented that the U.S. decision to invoke the Korean-War era Defense Production Act to protect crucial inputs threatens world vaccine […]

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By Jake Johnson, staff writer at Common Dreams. Originally published at Common Dreams The governments of the world’s wealthiest countries—including the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom—are facing growing backlash for continuing to block an India and South Africa-led proposal to temporarily waive a restrictive global intellectual property rights agreement, an effort aimed at spurring […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. A bit of good news for the to celebrate on this sunny morning on the cusp of spring. I’m writing this from our hideaway on Point Lookout, Long Island, looking out through […]

Philadelphia calls for ‘lights out’ after skyscrapers cause hundreds of bird deaths Guardian 102-year-old woman goes viral after joining great-grandson’s virtual gym class NY Post Review | Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception by Cass R. Sunstein on how to live with lies SCMP Pakistan’s beloved ‘poor man’s burger’ BBC Eli […]

By Lynn Parramore. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Think the government should do more to deal with climate change? You’re not alone – so do most Americans, according to a 2020 Pew poll. With Biden in the White House and Democrats controlling Congress, plans to get moving on some form […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Both the Biden administration and Congress are separately taking on the National Collegiate Athletic Organization (NCAA)’s control over collegiate sports and the compensation student athletes can receive. According to the the WSJ : […]

The People We Know Best New York Review of Books Medieval ‘birthing girdle’ parchment was worn during labour, study suggests University of Cambridge What Is the True Cost of Closing a Restaurant? Grub Street The Pope-Sistani riddle  Asia Times Pepe Escobar Two teenagers placed in foster care after weight loss plan fails Guardian Upstate NY […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. University of Cambridge scientists, with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,  this week released a study – the largest to date of its kind – suggesting that the idea that […]

Jerri-Lynn here. I would have framed this article differently, focusing on the importance of maintaining viable manufacturing is to U.S. economic survival, and less on national security points. I’m posting it for the useful information it contains on industries and supply chains By Tom Conway, the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). Produced […]

Jerri-Lynn here. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s management of the pandemic challenges that of the U.S. for the title of most incompetent; the country has the death statistics to prove it, with the second highest number of COVID-19 in the world, topped only by the United States. A Brazilian court this week overturned several criminal convictions […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. It’s been years since I read Ralph Nader’s 1965 classic, Unsafe at Any Speed – the book that made his reputation as a consumer advocate and led to the passage of the […]

Final thoughts Aeon Egyptologists translate the oldest-known mummification manuals Technica Suspected dog and cat meat factory in China raided after owner traces missing pet by GPS SCMP Russia turns away from NASA, says it will work with China on a Moon base Ars Technica Wildfires Will Keep Getting Worse — Even in “Best Case” Climate […]

By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. One of the biggest permanent changes coming out of the Pandemic is that businesses have invested in technologies that have long been available, but that hadn’t been deployed because there was no visible need to deploy them, and because businesses were stuck in […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. What’s on this week’s table for your patriotic Taiwanese? Freedom pineapples! As the WSJ reports: …These days, pineapple consumption is seen as an act of patriotism. Taiwan residents have been gobbling up […]

Thai navy rescue four cats from burning ship BBC Great apes given Covid vaccines after outbreak at San Diego zoo Guardian The Right to Live in Peace Consortium News. Vijay Prashad. China’s Donghai Airlines suspends pilot and male attendant after allegedly fighting mid-flight over a toilet incident SCMP Flying the not so friendly skies. Wagnermania […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. A new study has found that the smoke that now blankets large parts of California during wildfire season is more toxic to human respiratory systems than any other source of fine particles, […]

Jerri-Lynn here. I like Jayapal – but I have a bad feeling about this. I don’t see the largely MIA Biden going to the mat on this issue.  And I fear the hapless Democrats will still be “fighting for” increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour after the ’24 mid-terms – when they’ll no […]

By Jeff Masters,Yale Climate Connections. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave America’s infrastructure a C- grade in its quadrennial assessment issued March 3. ASCE gave the nation’s flood control infrastructure – dams and levees – a D grade. This is a highly concerning assessment, given that climate […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. New right to repair rules for some consumer electrical goods, including hairdryers, refrigerators, television displays, and washing machines, came into effect in the 27-nation EU on Monday, mandating that products be repairable […]

Friends by Robin Dunbar review – how important are your pals? Guardian Cronkite signed off 40 years ago; it seems like an eon in news standards The Hill The Dangers of Brain Science Overdetermining Legal Outcomes Literary Hub. Judge Jed Rakoff. Originalism’s Original Sin Chronicle of Higher Education Egypt’s el-Sisi visits Sudan for Nile dam […]

By Deborah Gleeson, associate professor, La Trobe University. Originally published at The Conversation. News of the blockage of a shipment of 250,000 COVID-19 vaccines from Europe to Australia has caused concern and outrage. The immediate problem will probably be quickly solved through diplomatic channels. Even if it is not, onshore manufacturing of the AstraZeneca vaccine […]

By Deborah Gleeson, associate professor, La Trobe University. Originally published at The Conversation. News of the blockage of a shipment of 250,000 COVID-19 vaccines from Europe to Australia has caused concern and outrage. The immediate problem will probably be quickly solved through diplomatic channels. Even if it is not, onshore manufacturing of the AstraZeneca vaccine […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) did not cover itself in glory even before the hostile Trump became President and started actively opposing its efforts. In fact, under its first director, Richard […]

Are Cities Finished? Project Syndicate The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All Wired What would a truly wild Ireland look like? BBC When Engineers Were Humanists New York Review of Books Postures of Transport Public Domain Review NYC backtracks on de Blasio’s plan to close Trump-owned ice rinks New York Post Entire California […]

By Brett Wilkins,  staff writer at Common Dreams. Originally published at Common Dreams Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is not incidental to the federal budget and is permissible under the rules,” the independent senator from Vermont said Saturday.  Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday said he is “confident” that the $15 hourly federal […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Annie’s Homegrown has vowed to eliminate ortho-phthalates from its packaged mac and cheese, according to the New York Times, Annie’s Pledges to Purge a Class of Chemicals From Its Mac and Cheese. […]

What would human history look like if told through our relationships with animals? Scroll 21-year-old UK teacher becomes youngest woman to row Atlantic solo Guardian Tea With Martin Amis Tablet Can Historians Be Traumatized by History? The New Republic America’s Hidden Gulag New York Review of Books Gov. DeSantis to order flags lowered after Rush […]

By Christina Jewett, Senior Correspondent with the KHN enterprise team, is writing about health care workers dying of COVID-19 for the Lost on the Frontline project. Her reporting on secretive FDA device-reporting loopholes resulted in the release of 5.7 million records and was recognized with the Barlett & Steele Gold award, the SPJ Sunshine Award […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. A depressing email popped into my in-box last week, containing a photograph of a rubbish-choked Maafushi harbor. I know the place well, having visited at least four times and completed months of […]

Retired general on Pepsi board vows to win War on Thirst Duffelblog US cold snap: Why is Texas seeing Arctic temperatures? BBC Winter storm alerts, power outages cover the map as storms slam US AccuWeather Historic Arctic outbreak brings dangerous cold, snow and ice to central and southern U.S. WaPoGuinea declares Ebola epidemic after three […]

Jerri-Lynn here. It amazes me that one year into this pandemic, public health authorities are not already providing vitamin and mineral supplements to boost immune system function, not only for the elderly, but for everyone, and without relying on the rationale that such a course of action is necessary to boost the effectiveness of COVID […]

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. While compiling today’s Links, I stumbled upon a Leite’s Culinaria piece about Kraft’s launch of a pink-tinged Valentine- themed version of its popular mac ’n cheese – aka Kraft dinner, Kraft Introduces…Pink […]

A Field Guide to Heart-Shaped Foods New Yorker 14 Pink Animals That Wow and Woo TreeHugger Kraft Introduces…Pink Mac and Cheese? Leite’s Culinaria Chart: How Many People Are Looking for Love Online? The Wire How a public uprising caused a province built on fossil fuels to reverse course on coal mining The Narwhal Deepfake porn […]