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There’s an encouraging article in the New York Times about loggers and environmentalists putting aside their hostility to save a town. If you are interested, you can try searching for “They Overcame Mutual Loathing, and Saved a Town”, by Nicholas Kristof, written April 10, 2021. Warning: this article might be behind a paywall. We definitely…

The situation in India is heartrending. Here’s a chart of the top 10 countries in cumulative cases with US leading the world, but note that sharp upturn in the climb of cases (purple line is India). That sharp upturn is scary. All international data is from Wikipedia. See box below. Image 1: India’s sharp rise…

I received yet another newsletter from Andrew Ross Sorkin’s DealBook that discusses about how overwork can not only adversely impact your health but it can also impact your job performance. No surprise there. If you subscribe to the New York Times, then you can do a search for “Companies Can’t Stop Overworking” by Corinne Purtill….

Some time ago I did a post that talked about how the Wall Street Journal, the epitome of capitalism, declared that the energy free market in Texas actually costed Texas consumers 28 billion in extra cost. Talk about market failure. And yet, I did not see any other articles discussing this kind of market failure:…

Or maybe it’s Socrata… This week has been disappointing, not just the CDC. First, on a minor note, a recipe that I pulled from a blog, which sounded so enticing, turned out to be disappointing. Either I did something wrong or the recipe is just not to my taste. But the recipe really sounded like…

(This is NOT a celebration! It’s just a notice of the passing of time.) Well, I didn’t realize one year has passed. I thought the lockdowns began sometime around March 17th which would be sometime next week but the actual pronouncement by the WHO organization that the coronavirus had achieved pandemic status apparently happened on…