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~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; fun with maps: Helene and Milton could make Pennsylvania the key;  Kamala has a beer with Stephen Colbert; on hurricanes; Response to Helene in NC; Boeing talks break down as management walks away from the table. ~

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2:00PM Water Cooler 10/9/2024

KLG returns to why the discredited amyloid thesis as the cause of Alzheimer's nevertheless persists.

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Alzheimer's: How Not to Study a Disease

The search for safe places to hide from climate change impacts is already underway, yet is set to be largely futile.

Let’s Stop Pretending That We Can Escape from Climate Change

A new report, Black Box Biotech, warns of the biodiversity and error risk of AI engineered proteins, aka synthetic or  "generative biology".

Artificial Intelligence

Big Digital Tech Moves Into Synthetic Biology: The Generative AI Rush / Black Box Biotech P1/2

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics;  Trump's 2020 polling underestimates vs. margins in the Swing States today (map); the Feds launder migrants through NGOs to firms owned by the American gentry; Boeing's stock ~

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2024

A discussion of Putin including a not-much-discussed deal term that the West will never accept: sanctions relief.

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The Sanctions Poison Pill in Putin's Peace Offer

Europe is hardly the safest place for financial assets these days, as Russia and Venezuela can attest. It may now be Argentina's turn to have its assets frozen or even stripped.

Argentina

Quelle Surprise: Vulture Funds Set Their Sights on the Argentine Gold Milei's Government Just Shipped to Europe

How US fealty to neoliberalism undermined its economy. And why China's choices are not likely to produce happy outcomes.

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Rob Urie: Failed US Economic Policies Lie Behind Current Geopolitical Tensions

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Media Bias/Fact Check

Lebanon's Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed. The group said in a statement it would continue its battle against Israel "in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defence of Lebanon and its steadfast and honourable people".

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Hezbollah confirms its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike

Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet Tuesday in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the opposing nominees who top the major-party tickets.

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What to watch as JD Vance and Tim Walz meet for a vice presidential debate

Lebanon is home to over 250,000 migrant domestic workers who come from African and Asian countries, most of them women, many of them from Ethiopia.
Amid the intense clashes between Israel and militant group Hezbollah, highlighted by the Israeli airstrikes near Beirut that killed Hezbollah...

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