The Strawberry Moon Marks a Sweet Start to Summer Atlas Obscura. This evening. Thriving Garden in Sealed Bottle Hasn’t Been Watered in Over 40 Years My Modern Met 3M, DuPont Stocks Are Soaring on PFAS Settlement. A Big Overhang Is Gone.…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Malagasy Turtle-Dove, Rd Along Coast Between Table Mtn And St. Augustin, Mangrove Bay, Toliara, Madagascar. “Singing from tree top.” At least this dove sounds like a dove! * * * Politics…
Making A Solar-Powered Billion-Year Lego Clock Kottke.org World trade slowing sharply due to weak consumer demand: Fitch Anadolu Agency Global air travel at 90.5% of pre-virus levels in April Anadolu Agency Climate Climate Change Is a Wake-Up Call for Hibernating Squirrels…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, once again: I think by the time the countdown clock hits 500 I will have done something of an editorial redesign once more. Reader comments here; please expand the ideas there in comments on…
Gecko Grip: It’s Atomic (Really) (transcript) KQED Where Is the U.S. Economy Headed? Follow the Money WSJ Resilient US junk bond market baffles investors FT US bank deposits fall $472 billion in Q1, largest drop in almost 40 years Anadolu Agency…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I think by the time the countdown clock hits 500 I will have done something of an editorial redesign once more. The difficulty is that Covid, as a story, is popping everywhere but the…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I’m sorry to be a little late. I got wrapped around the axle on NIH’s Long Covid study, and belatedly realized the topic really needed to be in a post. So I had to…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Madagascar Lark, Ifaty – Salt Flats By Hotel, Madagascar. “Marine, Mudflat, Pond.” I think the birders downrate for background noise, but I like it. * * * Politics “So many of…
Archaeologist unveils mysteries of Mexica fascination with crocodiles Mexico News Daily Investors Are Getting Some Negotiating Power Back. But Not as Much as You Think. Institutional investor. Limited partners in PE. The stark ‘de-risking’ choice facing economies Mohamed El-Erian, FT Another…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Monotonous Lark, Omaruru; at railroad crossing just before Paula’s Cave, Namibia. “Species Sound: Constant… These birds sing day and night for 6 weeks when the rains come. In flat arid area…
Yves says she has to get up very early today for estate duties, and so must sleep when she would otherwise be posting. So wish her luck, and she’ll make it up to you later. –lambert When you adopt a desert…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Dusky Lark, Nyachisala Forest, Kakoma, Mwinilunga, North-Western, Zambia. “Song in display flight.” * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a…
By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean. He has performed and directed research on protein structure, function, and evolution; cell adhesion and motility;…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Magpie-lark. Piesse Park (Katanning), Katanning, Western Australia, Australia. “Pair duet. Female woo-loop call in flight @ 0.17. 2nd duet- male lead. Near end- Male few out no call. Female called, followed…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” —Benjamin Franklin to Elizabeth Willing Powel of Philadelphia, 1787. The Durham Report (“Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. I have my head down over the lengthy and horrid Durham Report. Please talk amongst yourselves! –lambert * * * Contact information for plants: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] strether [DOT] corrente…
Inside A Billionaire Bee Colony Forbes Neural mechanisms of parasite-induced summiting behavior in ‘zombie’ Drosophila (accepted manuscript). From the Abstract: “For at least two centuries, scientists have been enthralled by the ‘zombie’ behaviors induced by mind-controlling parasites.” Indeed! Trust and public…
By Rachel Sherrington, a freelance investigative researcher and reporter based in London. She is the former Lead Researcher and Reporter at DeSmog, where she oversaw investigations into corporate greenwashing, banks’ financing of fossil fuels, and agribusiness lobbying against the EU’s Farm…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Let’s get the engineering stuff out of the way first, because masking is too important to be left to the medical community. Covid is airborne (a.k.a. aerosol transmission); people infect each other with Covid via “shared…
Advocates encourage adoptions to celebrate National Rescue Dog Day KMGH The ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More Likely to Come NYT Climate As Alberta Burns, Politicians ‘Dare Not Speak’ of Climate Change The Tyee. Commentary: Incredible satellite imagery over…
Lambert here: “[U]nder the pressure of events, the public sector is taking an ever-larger role in shielding private participants from economic hardships.” Delicately put! One might wonder who, exactly, those “private participants” are…. By Francesco Papadia, chair of the Selection Panel…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Meadow Bunting, Ilistay River, Primorsky Krai, Russia. “A bird continuously calling.” * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational…
Dealers Proclaim a Return to Form for Frieze New York, With Healthy Sales Across the Spectrum and Increased International Traffic Artnet News Will The U.S. Economy Pull Off a ‘Soft Landing’? Paul Krugman, NYT Recession Calls Keep Getting Pushed Back, Giving…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, brunch today was far too long for me to get back to my desk in time, and far too liquid for me to be coherent had I been able to do so. Talk amongst…
Cat Dies Defending Family from One of Australia’s Most Venomous Snakes Interesting Engineering (Chuck L). ‘We don’t need a baby, we have a cat’: Hong Kong women say no to kids as experts ponder baby shortage Channel News Asia Platypus returns…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Lark-like Bunting, Akkerendam Nature Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa. * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Corn Bunting, Essonne, Essonne, Île-de-France, France. A chorus. * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Red-headed Bunting, Barbanda Pond and Surroundings, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of…
What made these prehistoric ‘thunder beasts’ so big? National Geographic A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation Quanta Climate El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion National Weather Service Climate Prediction Service, NOAA. Synopsis: “A transition from ENSO-neutral is expected…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Madagascar Nightjar, Jardin Botanique A, Ampijoroa Forestry Station, Mahajanga, Madagascar. * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management…
‘No Mow May’ encourages homeowners to help bees by letting their lawns grow NBC. Let’s make it year-round! Call combinations and compositional processing in wild chimpanzees Nature. See also. PwC races to contain widening Australian tax leak scandal FT Climate Waller…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Little Nightjar, Santa Rosa de la Roca, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Night sounds, too. * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact…
Alligator Mating Season is Underway in Florida—and Is Causing Havoc Field and Stream Exploring a Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna Ecology & Evolution (Sub-Boreal). Citizen science! Warehouses Outperform in Cloudy Commercial Real Estate Environment Chief Investment Officer Climate Half of the…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Great Eared-Nightjar, Parambikulam Tiger Reserve– Pulickal, Palakkad, Kerala, India. * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I got a late start today. This should be enough to get you going; more soon. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Fiery-necked Nightjar, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa. “Calling from…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Let’s get the engineering stuff out of the way first, because masking is too important to be left to the medical community. Covid is airborne (a.k.a. aerosol transmission); people infect each other with Covid via “shared…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am finishing up a post on Mass General’s Kafka-esque and brutally stupid new masking policy, where patients are not allowed to ask staff to mask up, even if immunocompromised. And so I must…
Fruitarian Frogs May Be Doing Flowers a Favor NYT Welwitschia mirabilis: A Living Fossil that’s worthy of all our admiration ZME Science Janet Yellen warns of ‘constitutional crisis’ over US debt ceiling impasse FT What the Debt Limit Fight Is Actually…
By Timo Löyttyniemi, CEO State Pension Fund in Finland. Originally published at VoxEU. Financial markets have faced several disruptions to financial stability during 2022 and 2023. These events have highlighted the vulnerability of banking and derivatives markets. This column argues that…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Most of the material in this short post will be quoted from a wonderful article in the American Historical Review, Kathryn Olivarius’s “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans” (2019). I recommend you grab a…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumps billions of dollars of US stocks FT Nobody Knows Anything, FedWatch Edition The Big Picture Climate High concentrations of floating neustonic life in the plastic-rich North Pacific Garbage Patch PLOS. “We collected samples through the eastern…
Lambert here: As before, Lira hold dual Chilean-American citizenship. So Yves remarks: I suggest Lira followers call their Chilean Embassy or Consulate to demand that Lira either be allowed his freedom or transported safely out of Ukraine. Worth noting that Lira…
Inside the fight to save a beleaguered butterfly High Country News Four-year-old toddler climbs 52-foot-high walls, her mom says she just ‘goes for it’ FOX Neighbors Solve Mysterious NJ Pasta Dump Case NBC Climate Insights: AI is booming – so is…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day European Starling, Chez Cobbolds, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. “Song.” * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic…
Watch a Moose Walk into an Alaskan Movie Theater, Eat Popcorn, and Leave Field and Stream You’ve Heard About Behavioral Finance. But What About Physical Finance? Institutional Investor Why Our National Gene Bank System is the Backbone of the Breeding World…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I had a ProtonMail outage right in the middle of production. So there will be more orts and scraps than usual, some actually important! So please check back –lambert UPDATE Finished! Bird Song of…
Powell: Fed made ‘mistakes’ in regulation and supervision on his watch American Banker Pushback Against Powell’s Prognosis Comes Almost Immediately Bloomberg How the Fed Became Everything (and Everything Became the Fed) Foreign Policy Climate Here Are Five Ways Finance Is Trying…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day European Starling, Devínske jazero – chatová oblasť, Bratislavský kraj, Slovakia. A steam train whistle in the background, I swear! * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day European Starling. Ithaca; Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Tompkins, New York, United States.”Single bird singing from top of elm tree imitating turdus migratorius and sayornis phoebe. All sounds made by this starling.”…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Happy May Day! Bird Song of the Day European Starling, Libertytown , Audrey Carroll Wildlife Sanctuary, Frederick, Maryland, United States. “Call; Song. Other Behaviors: Advertise. Habitat: Pond.” I like that this is from 1999. Quite the…