- Per capita CO2 emissions in China now match those in the United Kingdom
- Drowning is a Leading Cause of Death for Children
- Donald Trump just laid out his vision for AI policy
- Brad DeLong provides links and commentary on the new Tariff deals
- The Consolidated Government Budget Constraint Does Not Care About Your Fed Independence Feelings
- The Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef (NYT)
- Addressing the Barriers Blocking Employee Development
- Why Are Managers So Miserable at Work? (WSJ). The full Gallup report can be found here.
- Africa’s path to claiming the 21st century runs through its cities h/t Jeffrey Paller
- The Problem with secondary tariffs
- How ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ became a global phenomenon (WP)
- The World Has Too Much Steel, but No One Wants to Stop Making It (NYT)
- Other nations had a pandemic reckoning. Why hasn’t the US? (CSM)
- Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years (WSJ)
- Tour de France: Too Fast To Be Clean?
- Their Superpower? Holding Things. (NYT)
- Volkswagen’s Secret (WP) – Not the good kind.
- In 1965, the government tried replacing migrant workers with high-schoolers. It was a disaster. (WP)
- Early Hawaiian petroglyphs on a beach are visible again with changing tides and shifting sands
- We’ve Pumped So Much Groundwater That We’ve Nudged the Earth’s Spin
- How AI, robotics and late artist Norval Morrisseau are helping fight art fraud
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson