Diabetes: Regenerating Islet Cells; Food Research at Home
We have yet another promising line of research for curing T1 Diabetes, even in people with no functioning islet cells left. The plan is to get other cells to differentiate into islet cells, and then to...
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1/4/2024 GNR: The 11th Day of Christmas
Tomorrow will be Twelfth Night, the end of Christmas in the Gregorian calendar, and the prelude to Epiphany. Here are some Grecian ladies dancing for you, by a Russian painter in Spanish style. Take...
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😂👉 CNN Rs-Only Iowa Town Hall with Nikki Haley...
CNN pretended to hold a Town Hall with Nikki Haley last night, allowing softball questions only from the CNN moderator, Erin Burnett, and from pre-selected R audience members who say they are going to...
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How to Boost Biden on Social Media
GoodNewsRoundup plans to post about important things President Biden has done five days a week at least until the November elections. We who follow her can greatly increase her impact by sharing on our...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Arguing with Zombies
We have looked at several interconnected zombie ideas in economics: Starve the Beast, Social Democracy=Stalinism, Trickle-Down Lafferism, Market Fundamentalism, Global Warming Denial, Deficit Hawkism....
View ArticleA Koan of Dharma Tunneling
There is a lot of woo-woo about supposed connections between Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics. Pay it no mind. But one can make a valid analogy between quantum tunneling and Mumon’s Gate with No Door,...
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1/9 Renewable Tuesday: Not Just Greenhouse Gases
All life on Planet Earth faces threats from Global Warming, in a multitude of different ways. Our entire natural and built environment is threatened in a multitude of other ways, such as agricultural...
View ArticleCombined Diabetes CGM and Insulin Delivery System
Medtronic Diabetes announces world's first approval for MiniMed™ 780G System with Simplera Sync™ disposable, all-in-one sensorThe MiniMed™ 780G system is Medtronic's most advanced insulin delivery...
View Article1/11 Good News Roundup: The Demise of Moral Panic
Republicans have no campaign issues in this year’s election cycle. They have a succession of bogus moral panics, nearly all of which rapidly wear out, like Mr. Potato Head or woke M&Ms. CRT, DEI,...
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Boosting Biden Outreach: Social Media Examples
Today we look at the Friday Boosting Biden message, Day 10, as it can appear on multiple social media platforms.TwitterxDaily Kos Boosting Biden group, every weekday until the electionDark Brandon...
View ArticleThe Origin of Capitalism
Where did capitalism come from? No, before that, what is capitalism? No, before that, what is a capitalist? Not simply someone rich and powerful. Not just someone engaged in trade. Not just someone...
View ArticleThe Koan of Fussing
We don’t have to be a fussbudget like Lucy to others or to yourself. In particular you don’t have to make a big production of koans, of training, of awakening. We can accept the world. We can accept...
View ArticleEconomics Book: Seven Cheap Things
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet, by Raj Patel and Jason W....
View ArticleEconomics Book: Inventing Capitalism
The Invention of Capitalism, by Michael Perelman. https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Invention-of-Capitalism/The last one deals with Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus and several of their fellow political...
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Koan: The Ways and Means of Food
At each monastic meal in Soto Zen Buddhism, we recite the Mealtime Verse: “We must think deeply of the ways and means by which this food has come; We must consider our merit when accepting it; We must...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday 11/14: Racing against Doom to Peak Carbon
Not news: We are in a race between more carbon and higher temperatures on one side, and unprecedented growth in renewables and decarbonizing industry on the other. Doom&Gloom is also on the...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Double, Double, Make Good Trouble
The Fossil Fools have lost round after round in the Global Warming debate, but they aren’t going to give up on oil and gaslighting until their last lone megabuck is gone. It’s not fair, you know. You...
View ArticleDiabetes treatments: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
The Roman God Janus, above, is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways,[2] passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces. The month of January is...
View ArticleThursday Good News 1/18: This is the Year that Will Be
You know the drill. No doomscrolling. We have majorities on all of the issues. They are throwing away voters with all of their hands, and shooting themselves in all of their feet. GOTV everywhere, to...
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Boosting Biden Outreach: Lists, Groups, and Spaces
Last week I gave examples of posting Boosting Biden messages to nine social media platforms. This week we take a look at lists, groups, subReddits, and spaces. Please let us know which platforms you...
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