- Amazon’s greedy embrace of third party sellers (often fraudsters) exposes “clients” to shady, unreliable sellers. Back to bricks and mortar?
- Thames Water is nearly bankrupt. One reason may be the £7 billion increase in debt and £2.8 billion in paid dividends during the 11 years it was owned by Macquarie. Yes, it seems that Thames invested £1 billion per year during that period, but that spending (a) has not fixed its chronic infrastructure issues and (b) contributed to the financial problems stemming from excess debt and dividends.
- Listen: The FTX trial is inspiring journalism/interviews that give interesting insights, i.e., into jury selection and bankruptcy management.
- Read: California messes up math education while chasing fantasies of equality.
- Read: Heard of all those “blue zones” where people live extra-long? They are probably “blue” because of missing data.
- Think: Humans are headed, on current form, to +3.3C by 2100. Use this simulator to see how far (or not) we can go with reductions in emissions/deforestation.
- Read: The Economist says “carbon prices are taking over the world.” I find that conclusion far more optimistic than all the games over credits, offsets and adjustments would suggest.
- Read: a MacArthur “genius” award for the anthropologist who studied how the poor of Cochabamba help each other with water insecurity.
- Read: Nothing Defines America’s Social Divide Like a College Education, for example:
H/T to DL