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Thursday 10/12 Good News Roundup:
I don’t do war crimes porn, which is all over the MSM now. I look for the helpers. There are more of us than of them, but they are far noisier. When there are trials or other forms of active karma, we...
View ArticleAmartya Sen: Development as Freedom
We have seen Milton Friedman’s delusional notions of negative freedom for the privileged. Now we can contrast Amartya Sen’s notions of positive freedom for all the rest of the world. Friedman saw...
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The Koan of Washing the Dishes
In the Soto Zen mealtime verse, we say, “We accept this food so that we can awaken.” We must be unselfish and at the same time practical. Here are a master and disciple who really got that...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Hydrogen Colors
ledelemay50 commented in a Good News RoundupHaving done some reading on the topic, I think it would be valuable to explain the basics, like why hydrogen can be described in “colors”, i,e., green, blue,...
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Confusing Medicare Coverage for Diabetic CGMs
Yes, both FreeStyle Libre and Dexcom CGMS are covered, but Medicare’s account of the process is extremely unclear. I don’t think that it’s a real problem, but as a former tech writer I am appalled by...
View ArticleThursday 10/19 Good News Roundup: Hakeem Jeffries has a Plan
that a lot of people don’t want to talk about. Two points: 1) Democrats don’t care who is Speaker, if the Speaker has to follow bipartisan regular order, and 2) Democrats have a proposed rules package...
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Truth Sandwiches: Unmask the Source; X Migration; Halloween Door-Knocking
From Jody Rein at the Truth Brigade: Sorry friends, guess it really is Friday the 13th! Here's your corrected Friday Update for today. We've added in the links that were missing for your new message...
View ArticleR&BLers: No Diary from me Today
I have had a bad cold for more than a week. I have published various Diaries, but today it is too much.My apologies. Back to bed now.
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: By the Numbers
We have a teraton of excess CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans. That comes from8.3 billion tonnes of coal in a year4.4 billion tonnes of oil in a year3.94 trillion cubic meters, or 2.8 billion tonnes of...
View ArticleDiabetes: Eye Implant Holds Islet Cells
Every week I wonder whether i can keep up these Diaries on technologies for treating diabetes at this rate, and every week Google says, well, how about this one? Would a machine-printed microstructure...
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Thursday Good News Roundup 10/26 The Helpers are Looking for You
The helpers are always on the lookout for more people to help, and then for more people to join in with them. They need us to raise the banner, to volunteer where and when we can, to send money (of...
View ArticleVilfredo Pareto's Optima and Better
The next stage in development of Welfare Economics after Leon Walras was taken by Vilfredo Pareto, who also succeeded Walras in his professorship. This is all good technical economics that feeds our...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday 10/31: More, Faster, Better, Cheaper
I am delighted to tell you again that there is no way to keep up with all of the good news in renewable energy, electric vehicles, green manufacturing, and the rest. It just keeps pouring in, more,...
View ArticleDiabetes: Drinking from the Firehose
I have been writing up one major advance in diabetes care each week, but I can’t do that this time. Here instead are the top diabetes news stories of the week from a Google search, with spillovers...
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Good News Roundup 11/2 Be the Helper
Being the Helpers: Whatever it is, I’m for it. Especially whatever The Usual Suspects scream about. The opposite of Groucho Marx as Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff in Horse Feathers. And the opposite of...
View ArticleTo Live Woke, by Rupert Nacoste
TL;DR: No one is innocent; never talk to someone just as a member of a group; always show respect; tell those making bigoted statements, “I am very uncomfortable with that kind of language. I find it...
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Koan: Confession Verse
George W. Bush was asked whether he had ever done anything wrong, but chose to answer whether he had made a business mistake. Donald Trump has been asked whether he has done anything wrong, and...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday 10/7 Unions! EV Chargers! Real Carbon Capture! Tipping Points!
The denialists and obstructionists haven’t been able to grasp what is hitting them, so they continue the greenwashing, gaslighting, and so on. We, too, are having trouble keeping up with it all, but we...
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Bogus NYT/Siena Polls—The Rest of the Story
A lot of fuss has been made over polls purporting to show Trump leading Biden in critical swing states. The MSM has played this up bigly. But it’s nonsense. A lot of us knew it was nonsense...
View ArticleNovember is National Diabetes Month
Even for those who don’t have diabetes themselves, November being National Diabetes Month, and Nov. 14 being World Diabetes Day, should be a big deal. Here is the full text of President Biden’s...
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