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Ceaselessly younger: Many cold-blooded creatures don’t age, research present Agence France Presse
World’s rarest sea turtle lays eggs on Texas seaside Houston Chonicle
Discovery of ‘hidden world’ below Antarctic ice has scientists ‘leaping for pleasure’ Lve Science
Markets Are Shedding the Anchor of a Technology Bloomberg. The deck: “Inflation has undermined the credibility of central banks. That explains how bond yields will be rising at the same time as recession fears mount.”
Wild photo voltaic climate is inflicting satellites to plummet from orbit. It’s solely going to worsen. House.com
Local weather
Mass biodiversity loss would slash international credit score scores, report warns Reuters (dk).
1% of invested international GDP might assist slash emissions, however how? World Financial Discussion board
Lake Mead nears lifeless pool standing as water ranges hit one other historic low NBC (Re Silc).
Utopia within the age of local weather disaster The New Statesman
#COVID19
Endemicity just isn’t a victory: the unmitigated draw back dangers of widespread SARS-CoV-2 transmission (preprint) medRxiv. Mannequin research. From the Summary: “An expectation exists, each within the lay public and within the scientific group, that future waves of the virus will exhibit decreased [infection fatality rate (IFR)], both because of viral attenuation or the progressive buildup of immunity. On this work, we study the premise for that expectation, assessing the influence of virulence on transmission. Our findings recommend that enormous will increase in virulence for SARS-CoV-2 would end in minimal lack of transmission, implying that the IFR could also be free to extend or lower below impartial evolutionary drift. We additional study the impact of modifications within the IFR on the steady-state dying toll below situations of endemic COVID-19. Our modeling means that endemic SARS-CoV-2 implies huge transmission leading to yearly US COVID-19 dying tolls numbering within the a whole lot of 1000’s below many believable situations, with even modest will increase within the IFR resulting in an unsustainable mortality burden. Our findings thus spotlight the crucial significance of enacting a concerted technique (involving for instance international entry to vaccines, therapeutics, prophylactics and nonpharmaceutical interventions) to suppress SARS-CoV-2 transmission, thereby decreasing the chance of catastrophic outcomes.”
5 COVID Numbers That Don’t Make Sense Anymore The Atlantic (Re Silc). All CDC-invented or sign boosted….
DCGI approval in, however right here’s why you possibly can’t select Corbevax as your booster simply but The Print (RK).
China?
Chinese language safety official requires crackdown on gangs following Tangshan assault South China Morning Put up
EU champion Airbus has deep hyperlinks to Chinese language navy industrial advanced, report says Politico
Localized Bargaining: The Political Financial system of China’s Excessive-Pace Railway Program Pekingnology
Recovering the Forgotten Historical past of China’s Structure Sixth Tone. Half 2.
Lively Denial: A Roadmap to a Extra Efficient, Stabilizing, and Sustainable U.S. Protection Technique in Asia Quincy Institute
Myanmar
Myanmar junta in ‘severe battle to outlive’ as insurgency gathers momentum FT
Myanmar’s Garment Factories Energy By way of Vitality Disaster—That May be the Downside Sourcing Journal
UK/EU
Triple blow for Boris Johnson as Tories lose two by-elections and social gathering chairman quits Sky Information
A Temporary Historical past of Britain’s Anti-Commerce Union Legal guidelines Tribune
The UK’s (new) Invoice of Rights Public Regulation for Everybody
Unique: Jeremy Corbyn on the Institution Marketing campaign to Cease Him Changing into PM Declassfied UK
BRICS basket-based worldwide reserve foreign money into consideration — Putin TASS and As BRICS summit kicks off, calls develop for parallel fee system to counter US hegemony World Instances. On the BRICS Enterprise Discussion board.
Internationalization of the Currencies of BRICS Nations Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2021, nonetheless germane.
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Ukrainian troops to withdraw from Severodonetsk, native chief says Axios. Escaping a cauldron….
Germany raises nationwide vitality alert over Russia’s ‘financial assault’ Politico
The Carlyle Lectures 2022 – The Chilly Battle and the Canon of Liberalism College of Historical past, College of Oxford. Many movies.
Biden Administration
In 6-3 ruling, court docket strikes down New York’s concealed-carry regulation SCOTUSBlog. So, “no shirt, no footwear, no service,” however if you happen to’re strapped? No drawback! Commentary:
#BREAKING Following spate of conventional mass shootings that claimed dozens of lives in troubled, violence-prone, gun-strewn, Far Northwestern banana-exporting republic of US, Supreme Court docket in coastal capital of Washington DC strikes down gun legal guidelines as undermining American tradition.
— gathara (@gathara) June 23, 2022
Biden sides with pork business in combat over California regulation setting requirements for animal cages San Francisco Chronicle
Intel withholds Ohio fab ceremony over US chip subsidies inaction The Register
Biden administration making ready to compensate some ‘Havana syndrome’ victims as much as $200,000 CNN. Not a nasty deal for a case of mass hysteria. Possibly the complete Blob might money in?
The Authorities’s Investigation Into Brookings Ought to Fear Suppose Tanks The Nation
Provide Chain
Robust rouble, lack of vessels to hamper begin of recent export season for Russian wheat Hellenic Transport Information
Each day Harvest recollects a lentil dish after clients report meals poisoning on-line NPR (dk). Commentary:
Once you have a look at DTC meals enterprise fashions, frankly, plenty of them are about entrepreneurs who wanna promote meals however do not wanna be assed to cope with all of the hygiene & QA safeguards that grocery shops require. Why? Bc grocery shops acquired uninterested in getting caught spreading outbreaks.
— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) June 23, 2022
(DTC = Direct To Client.) One other regulatory arbitrage play.
The Bezzle
PYMNTS Information: 23% of People Owned Crypto in 2021 as Processors Stepped up Assist PYMNTS.com. Yikes. That’s plenty of scope for fraud and loss.
Don’t Imagine the Obits for Bitcoin WSJ. There’ll at all times be a spot for fraud in our monetary system.
Daycare Apps Are Dangerously Insecure EFF
Monkeypox
We Can’t Let Monkeypox Flip right into a Repeat of COVID Scientific American
US permits business labs to check for monkeypox Middle for Infectious Illness Analysis and Coverage
CDC Eyes Bavarian Monkeypox Vaccine for Youngsters as Outbreak Spreads Bloomberg
Healthcare
Let Debt Be Thy Drugs… Jesse Ventura’s Die First Then Give up
Zeitgeist Watch
Alexa so as to add voices of your deceased family members The Hill. Fairly a marketplace for that now, I might say.
Tax extra margins Interfluidity
Class Warfare
Episode 187 – The Boy Who Cried Wolff (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) (podcast) Dangerous Religion. “Marxist economist Richard Wolff returns to the podcast to reply all your inflation questions.” Enjoyable stuff; Wolff is a hoot.
Energy Causes Mind Harm The Atlantic (Re Silc). From 2017, nonetheless germane.
Music Direct’s Jim Davis and Companions to Open Vinyl Urgent Plant Subsequent 12 months Billboard. Extra manufacturing, please.
Extra Japanese carpentry, please:
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