food insecurity
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On moral outrage.
I was upset about the young people partying during the pandemic. I was wrong.
2022, asymptomatic spread, catching coronavirus twice, catching Covid-19 twice, coronavirus, coronavirus deaths, coronavirus epidemic, coronavirus vaccine, coronavirus versus flu, coronavirus vs flu, Covid-19, Covid-19 data, Covid-19 deaths, Covid-19 model, Covid-19 response, Covid-19 spread, Covid-19 vaccine, Covid-19 versus flu, Covid-19 vs flu, data, David Katz, demographics, demographics of risk, DNR, do not resuscitate, domestic violence, duration of coronavirus immunity, duration of coronavirus protection, duration of Covid-19 immunity, duration of immunity, ending the lockdown, ending the shutdown, epidemic, epidemiology, fading immunity, fading protection, flu, flu vaccine, food insecurity, harm minimization, harm reduction, Harvard, Harvard model, herd immunity, how long does immunity last, how long does protection last, how soon will we have a vaccine, immune system, immunity, immunology, infectious spread, influenza, influenza vaccine, joblessness, Katz, length of coronavirus immunity, length of Covid-19 immunity, length of Covid-19 protection, length of immunity, lockdown, lost immunity, low vaccination rate, Pandemic, PCR test, protecting others, quarantine, response to Covid-19, returning to normal, second infection, self isolation, selfish young people, shelter in place, sheltering in place, shutdown, social distance, social distancing, spread of infections, vaccination, vaccine, vaccine development, vaccine protection, viral spread, virus, virus epidemic, virus panic, waning immunity, waning protection, want healthy young people to get Covid-19, working from home
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On Syria, and the complexity of causality.
Syria was in dire straits before the drought — climate change made a bad situation even worse.
Abdullah Al-Udhari, Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma’arri, Assads, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster, civil war, climate change, climate instability, drought, extremism, food insecurity, George Wightman, global warming, ISIL, ISIS, jihad, Lindsey Hilsum, misogyny, oppression, paradise, plough, plow, poetry, protests, refugee, refugee crisis, Syria, Utopia, violence, War of All Against All, Yassin al-Haj Saleh
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On naked mole-rats.
Naked mole-rats shrug off pain, & cancer, & even time itself… but can they withstand the curiosity of Homo sapiens?
age-related diseases, age-related mortality, aging, animal cognition, animal research, animal welfare, anoxia, anoxia resistance, apoxia resistance, breeding, caloric restriction, cancer, cancer immunity, cancer resistance, cancer susceptibility, carbon dioxide poisoning, chemotherapy, Christopher Byrd, civil war, compassion, cooperation, cooperative childcare, Creep, cruelty, David Stipp, death curve, Eliot Weinberger, environmentalism, eusocial, eusocial mammals, eusociality, evolution, evolution of eusociality, food insecurity, fructose, Fructose-driven glycolysis, glucose, good stewardship, high-molecular-mass hyaluronan, hit single, hyaluronan, hypoxia, immortality, jail poetry, Jennifer Jarvis, Karmic Traces, lab mice, Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, laboratory animals, laboratory research, lifespan, lifespan elongation, limited senescence, longevity, mating habits, metabolism, mutation, Naked Mole-Rats, naked molerats, New Yorker, Norman Dubie, observation, opiates, Orange and Peanuts for Sale, Oranges and Peanuts for Sale, oxidation, oxidative stress, oxygen deprivation, pain, painkillers, Park et al., poetry, prison poetry, Radiohead, recycling, research animals, Richard Alexander, Selective Inflammatory Pain Insensitivity, Stalin, starvation, stroke, The Biology of Naked Mole-Rats, The Ghosts of Birds, The Marshall Cloud, Thomas Park, Tian et al., tumor, tumor resistance, tumorogenesis, What Happened Here, Xiao Tian
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On Edin & Shaefer’s ‘$2.00 a Day.’
You can’t learn what it takes to survive poverty when you think about people as numbers.
$2.00 a Day, budget, ethnography, Evicted, extreme poverty, food deserts, food insecurity, food stamps, H. Luke Shaefer, Hand to Mouth, high cost of rent in the United States, Kathyrn Edin, Linda Tirado, Living on Almost Nothing in America, Matthew Desmond, Paul Theroux, people want jobs, poverty, PTSD, sexual assault, SNAP, The Hypocrisy of Helping the Poor
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