by Turtles Caught in Disastrous Oil Spill Treated With Mayonnaise Smithsonian Sniffing out trouble! Blind and deaf ‘ninja’ spaniel Curtis is caught on camera stealing food off kitchen counters in the dead of night Daily Mail Bond Tantrum Is a Big Test of Central Banks’ Mettle Bloomberg McKinsey partners sacrifice leader in ‘ritual cleansing’ FT. That’s a damn shame. Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more. Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting 1 big thing: The NFT frenzy Felix Salmon, Axios Capital #COVID19 Why global Covid infections have plummeted FT Mechanistic transmission modeling of COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship demonstrates the importance of aerosol transmission PNAS SPI-M-O: Summary of modelling on scenarios
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Turtles Caught in Disastrous Oil Spill Treated With Mayonnaise Smithsonian
Bond Tantrum Is a Big Test of Central Banks’ Mettle Bloomberg
McKinsey partners sacrifice leader in ‘ritual cleansing’ FT. That’s a damn shame.
Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more. Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
1 big thing: The NFT frenzy Felix Salmon, Axios Capital
#COVID19
Why global Covid infections have plummeted FT
SPI-M-O: Summary of modelling on scenarios for easing restrictions (PDF) SAGE. Commentary:
Excellent blog on the pros and cons of the options by Professor Wren-Lewis.
As the SAGE document makes clear, a "living with covid" as opposed to a #ZeroCovid strategy, will lead to "as substantial resurgence in hospital admissions and deaths".https://t.co/jnxXTpXzT7 https://t.co/2bshB9lRt4 pic.twitter.com/AtJst7dv5R— Sasha Clarkson💙 #Wokester #Earthling (@SashaClarkson) February 25, 2021
Lessons from applied large-scale pooling of 133,816 SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests Science. From the Discussion: “Overall, we tested 133,816 samples using 32,466 RT-PCR tests with a global efficiency of 4.121, saving 101,350 (76%) RT-PCR reactions.” Pooling works!
CDC estimated a one-year decline in life expectancy in 2020. Not so — try five days STAT. Hmm. Readers?
We’ve been cooped up with our families for almost a year. This is the result. WaPo
An Inside Look at BC’S Illicit Drug Market During the Covid-19 Pandemic BC Medical Journal (IM).
China?
China-US relations: ‘let’s fix our own national messes before competing with Beijing’, says former diplomat Chas Freeman, South China Morning Post. Interpreter for Richard Nixon during his trip to China in 1972.
How the WTO Changed China Foreign Affairs
China celebrates official end of extreme poverty, lauds Xi AP
What’s Behind China’s Divorce Crackdown? Bloomberg
Taiwan’s chip industry under threat as drought turns critical Nikkei Asian Review
For Cambodian workers, obscure new border crossing makes for uncertain journey home Globe_
Singapore: Police officer’s wife admits to killing Myanmar maid BBC
Myanmar
World Bank halts payment requests on Myanmar projects made after Feb 1 coup Reuters
Coup chaos in Myanmar leaves employers fretting over paying staff Reuters. As predicted.
Facebook bans Myanmar military from its platforms with immediate effect Reuters
Digital platform law approved by Australian Parliament The Hill
The Koreas
Zombies are everywhere in South Korea, feeding on fears and anxieties Los Angeles Times
Medical oxygen scarce in Africa, Latin America amid virus AP
Syraqistan
Khashoggi killing report will test US-Saudi relations FT
10-20 American mouthpieces for Israeli government had unrivaled access to Obama White House — Rhodes Mondweiss
Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later The War Horse
UK/EU
£25,000 Reward Offered for Copy of Geoff Aberdein Testimony Craig Murray
Kingspan used BRE report on failed test as basis for 29 desktop studies, Grenfell Tower Inquiry reveals Inside Housing
The Great Cronyism Coverup Tribune
New Cold War
EU says it does not need Nord Stream 2, but only Germany can block it Hellenic Shipping News
Biden must freeze Putin’s pipeline and prevent this “bad deal for Europe” The Atlantic Council
Pushkin and Dostoyevsky’s Idiot: How to Understand Russia’s Foreign Policy Valdai Discusion Club
Free Private Cities: Brazil’s New Libertarian Dystopia Brasilwire=
Biden Administration
Senate parliamentarian nixes minimum wage boost in aid package Roll Call
Bernie Sanders unveils his Plan B for a $15 minimum wage after Senate parliamentarian setback The Week
Secret Memo Shows How Harris Must Now Advance Minimum Wage Hike Andrew Perez and David Sirota, Daily Poster
Lott to Oust Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against GOP Los Angeles Times. From 2001, still germane. No man, no problem.
* * * The Memo: Biden faces first major setback as Tanden teeters The Hill
Biden’s Virus Relief Plan Threatens to Trigger Medicare Cuts Bloomberg. Paygo, Pelosi’s fetish object.
FCC votes to finalize rules for new temporary low-income internet subsidy Reuters
Biden’s COVID Plan Is Just a Beginning Scientific American
Why not tie minimum wage to local rent? Noahpinion
Trump Transition
Trump’s tax returns handed over to Manhattan prosecutors NBC
Boeing
222 Boeing 787s Affected By New FAA Airworthiness Directive Simple Flying and Boeing, hit with US$6.6 million FAA fine, faces much bigger 787 repair bill: Sources Channel News Asia
Our Famously Free Press
YouTube Removes a CN Live! Episode Consortium News
Imperial Collapse Watch
‘A reckoning is near’: America has a vast overseas military empire. Does it still need it? USA Today
Ex-USA Gymnastics coach Geddert charged with human trafficking, sexual assault Lansing State Journal
Class Warfare
Race and America’s Long War: An Interview with Nikhil Pal Singh Salvage
The Power and the Silence The Unbound
Degrowth: A Response To Branko Milanovic Jason Hickel (john halasz).
Applause for Perseverance Ignores Plutonium Bullet We Dodged FAIR
PPE is the new plastic waste nightmare threatening the environment Euronews
Will the climate crisis tap out the Colorado River? High Country News
We Fought to Keep Frackers Out of the Delaware River Food and Water Watch
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