- Out with a Bang as FTC Beats the PharmaBros (The Big Newsletter) This is a good, and not overlong, description of how the FTC prevented the merger between IQVIA and DeepIntent, companies that use patient data to advertise to doctors. (One wonders why the whole business is legal)
- From Taser Face to the Goon Squad: the Year in Police Crime (CounterPunch.org) A decent survey of Cop misdeeds over the year.
- World's tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning (BBC) There some advantages, particularly in transportation and recycling.
- The zaï technique: How farmers in the Sahel grow crops with little to no water (Phys.org) These techniques have developed over thousands of years as the climate changed.
- Fire-Scarred Redwoods Are Rebounding with 1000-Year-Old Buds (MY Modern Met) Buds appear after extremely severe wildfires that burn the Redwood crowns, and carbon dating reveals that some of them have been generated as much as 1000 years before.
- Microbes May Be The Secret Behind Keto Diet's Protection Against Epileptic Seizures (ScienceAlert) Studies have shown no weight loss advantage to a keto diet, but it does seem to decrease seizure, and scientists now believe that this is because of changes in the gut biom.
- Mainstream Economics’ Medieval Inflation Medicine (Project Syndicate) James K. Galbraith unleashes a well deserved can of whup ass on main stream economists.
- Wayfair’s CEO Wants Staff to Work Harder. Your Boss Probably Agrees. - WSJ When he says, "Work harder," he is really saying, "Please, let us fuck you harder."
Dora the Explorer as directed by Brian De Palma:
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