Links 6/3/2023

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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.…

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Links 6/2/2023

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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…

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Links 6/1/2023

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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…

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Links 5/26/2023

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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…

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Links 5/25/2023

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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…

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An mRNA Vaccine that Works

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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;…

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Links 5/22/2023

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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…

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Four-Fifths of Board Members at America’s Top Six Banks are Climate Conflicted

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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…

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I’d Love to Go Long Masks, and… Maybe Someday! Tasks for the American Mask Manufacturers Association

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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…

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Links 5/21/2023

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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…

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Central Banks: Uncertainty Is the Problem, Not Managing the Trilemma

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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…

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Links 5/19/2023

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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…

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Links 5/18/2023

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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…

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Links 5/13/2023

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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…

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Links 5/12/2023

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‘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…

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Links 5/11/2023

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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…

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Mass General Hospital Decrees that Patients May Not ***ASK*** Staff to Wear Masks, Even If Immunocompromised (ADA Complaint Filed)

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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…

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Links 5/8/2023

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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…

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Links 5/7/2023

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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…

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US vs. Gonzalo Lira

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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…

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Links 5/6/2023

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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…

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Links 5/5/2023

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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…

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Links 5/4/2023

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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…

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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/2/2023

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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.”…

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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2023

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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…

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