Links 12/10/2024

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Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it? Nature An Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to Antibiotics, Study Warns ScienceAlert #COVID-19/Pandemics A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors…

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Links 12/7/2024

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Could Evidence of Primordial Black Holes Be Hiding in Plain Sight? Universe Today Does Space Need Environmentalists? Noema The order of anarchy aeon Pee-back time: Anti-Pee Paint Splashes Back at Public Urination ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin) The obesity crisis in the USA:…

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Trump, Tariffs, Exchange Rates, and the Strong Dollar Problem: The Message of Elections in the US and Japan

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Yves here. Richard Koo, famed for his creation of the balance sheet recession to explain Japan’s lost decades of growth, offers a fresh angle on why US and Japanese voters have gone into “Throw the incumbents out” mode. As many do,…

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Links 12/6/2024

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The Secret of Orange Cats Finally Uncovered After 60-Year Search ScienceAlert (Chuck L) Mesmerising and beautiful patterns made in the bubbling lava at Iceland's new eruption pic.twitter.com/i65TZsEJVb — Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) December 4, 2024 Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years…

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Wall Street Journal Tries “Recovery Finally Underway” Office Space Patter as Securitized Office Mortgage Delinquencies Hit a New Post-Crisis High of 10.4%

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Later in this piece, we will republish in full a fine, recent Wolf Richter post,Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to 10.4%, Just Below Worst of Financial Crisis Meltdown. Fastest 2-Year Spike Ever and up front, discuss how it contrasts with the…

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Nissan in Crisis, “12 or 14 Months to Survive,” as Size, Difficult Conditions for Non-China Carmakers Make Rescue Seem Remote

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The car industry ex China is reeling, between conventional car markers having trouble adapting to the EV/hybrid world (where EV new entrants have considerable advantages via the vehicles’ much lower mechanical complexity), European manufacturers being whacked by the new normal of…

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Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of “Generative Biology”‘ Colonization at COP16

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Yves here. A bit confusingly, the less well publicized COP16, an annual global biodiversity meeting under UN auspices, followed shortly on the heels of the COP29 climate conference. But a big common element of both was big corporate muscling to undermine…

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