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Allergies (2)

Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm (SA)

China says its economy grew 5 percent last year. It probably didn’t. (WaPo)

CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory on Origins of Covid-19 (WSJ)

What Came First: Evolution or Life?

Consciousness on a cellular level

Machine learning vs AI

The complexity bias (14): layers of complexity

Is the Universe alive?

How Did Life Get Big and Complex? (Quanta)

Unknown known definitions

Tunnel vision

A warning label for social media platforms?!

Rights & duties: vaccination

Mitigating country risk in supply-chain management

What defines a SuperPower?

China’s weakened economy or “economic long COVID” (Axios)

Why do animals, humans and plants dislike rain?

Price elasticity of demand

Vertical integration is back

Inequality and polarization

We’re not OK (Axios)

With Nothing to Eat Except Viruses, Some Microbes Thrive (Quanta)

China: from zero to max Covid?

Is stupidity at the Left feeding conspiracies at the Right?

Eurasia in Crisis (GPF)

The thinking undead: How dormant bacteria calculate their return to life (Phys)

Rethinking the Origins of Inflammatory Diseases (WSJ)

The Global Economy Enters ‘Eye of a New Storm’ (Bloomberg)

Balancing competition and cooperation (3)

The Chinese implosion – a 2022 update (3)

China Is Paying a Price for Its Economic and Pandemic Policies (Bloomberg)

Little by little the truth of lockdown is being admitted: it was a disaster (the Times)

Did Sweden’s controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down (the Conversation)

The Energy-Matter and SpaceTime matrix

The media are the virus in our society

What is Power?

Fact check: did universal health care prevent corona deaths?

Why do we have labour shortages?

Media = virus

Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids? (Phys)

A few make a difference

China: from pragmatism to ideology?

The viral role in the blueprint of Life

Why are anti-vax and pro-Russia linked?

Foreign cash fleeing China adds insult to injury (Bloomberg)

The world economy depends on geopolitics (Axios Markets)

We are eager to forget and eager to move on

The Great Lockdown Lie (National Review)

Living by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus (NYT)

The turn of an unfriendly card

Jacinda Ardern is martyring herself and her country – and all for a failed Covid strategy (Telegraph)

RPA department head lashes ‘politically-driven’ management of crisis (SMH)

Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random

From pandemic to endemic

China’s smallest firms failing at historic pace as 4.37 million close up shop and registrations plummet (SCMP)

Are viruses responsible for convergent evolution?

Ic-arts bij Op1 kritisch over harde lockdown: ‘Er komen niet duizenden op ic’

The Public-Health Mafia (National Review)

Some Hospitals Drop Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates to Ease Labor Shortages (WSJ)

The public has turned against the excesses of the lockdown fanatics (Telegraph)

Single Cells Evolve Large Multicellular Forms in Just Two Years (Quanta)

There is no easy escape from the global debt trap (FT)

From “are you being served?” to “will you be served?”

The law of supply and demand in hospitals

Who is to blame for hospital demand exceeding supply?

We moeten ons afvragen: wat betekent ‘2G’ voor de democratie? (NRC)

Dutch PM: “What more can I do??”

What is “gain-of-function” research? (the Economist)

Truckers warn ‘disastrous’ mandate will worsen supply chain chaos (WE)

Where indifference is bliss, solutions are near

The number of people who have died from covid-19 is likely to be close to 17m (the Economist)

Vaccine mandates are mobilising the opposition

Vaccine mandates vs labour shortages

Is Europe Wrong? Or Are We? (National Review)

Antidepressant Significantly Reduces Covid-19 Hospitalization (WSJ)

“Veel ongevaccineerden met migratie-achtergrond op ic”

Obedience to authority: respect vs Power

New York Times Retracts Massive Exaggeration of Children Hospitalized by COVID-19 (NR)

The Great Filter in civilizations: a conclusion

What are DNA vaccines? (the Economist)

Asymptomatic

Asymptomatisch

Fact check: COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu (AP)

Collateral damage

Zero Covid policy

How Often Should You Shower? Celebrities Ignite a Ferocious Debate (WSJ)

Why is history not important to us?

South Korea hikes interest rates, the first developed economy to do so in pandemic era (CNBC)

A German U-turn

More information = more focus = less knowledge = less common sense

Idiocracy (6): New Zealand

Idiocracy (5)

Idiocracy (2)

Political nationalism vs economic internationalism

Coincidental vs convergent evolution hypotheses

The asymptomatic Covid anomaly

The coincidental evolution hypothesis

In Children, Risk of Covid-19 Death or Serious Illness Remains Extremely Low, New Studies Find (WSJ)

COVID-19 origins still a mystery: Study finds virus was ‘highly human adapted’ (Medical Xpress)

Covid will always kill and we have to accept that, says Michael Gove (Times)

Change blindness

Media face hard questions on Trump, Wuhan lab (the Hill)

For men, low testosterone means high risk of severe COVID-19

Beyond COVID: mRNA Vaccines May Treat Cancer and More (freethink)

COVID-19: Made in China?

Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible (WaPo)

Why can’t those given Covid vaccine just get on with their lives? (Times)

The elephant in the room

The road to loss is paved with averages

An American Epidemic of ‘Covid Mania’ (WSJ)

COVID: Is it OK to manipulate people into getting vaccinated? (the Conversation)

Progress

Ultraviolet LED lights kill coronavirus cheaply and effectively, scientists report (Big Think)

EU vaccine passport a.k.a. Digital Green Certificate

Why are corona and Trump able to tear up families and friendships?

Why don’t we retire retirement homes?

To Beat COVID, We May Need a Good Shot in the Nose (Scientific American)

Complacency – why people are so stupid

The Pandemic Has Caused a Steep Decline in Living Standards (SA)

The Greater Good versus the Happy Few

How long can a society last without hope?

A new Great Divide: generational conflict (2)

‘It’s time that the elderly will sacrifice themselves for younger people’ (NRC)

‘Het wordt tijd dat de ouderen zich gaan opofferen voor de jongeren’ (NRC)

“Immunity passports” in the context of COVID-19 (WHO)

Irrational exuberance

The dark side of empathy (2)

Het Verzuim van de Vierde Macht door Siegfried Bracke

Covid-19: guilt & shame + regret & remorse = lockdown

Deze lockdown is disproportioneel (NRC)

Mark Rutte, ga ziekenhuizen openen ipv winkels sluiten !

Bread and circuses in 2020

Why do humans consider themselves as intelligent?

Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for 1st time (AP)

Workers File 712,000 Jobless Claims as Pandemic Total Reaches 69 Million (NR)

The Institutional Crisis and COVID-19 (GPF)

Fear sells (2)

Chinese and Western differences in Cause and Effect

Pandemic medical reserve capacity

Leaked documents reveal China hid severity of its coronavirus outbreak (Times)

Study warns of delayed flu outbreaks after pandemic ends (Big Think)

A public space on private property

Did Viruses Create the Nucleus? The Answer May Be Near. (Quanta)

Dollar Loses to Euro as Payment Currency for First Time in Years (Bloomberg)

When could you say ‘No’ to a vaccine?

Evolution vs Revolution

Superspreaders: who and why

The dark side of empathy

Tunnelvisie nekt crisiskabinet (Adformatie)

The coronavirus’s origins are still a mystery. We need a full investigation. (WaPo)

Mission, goals, strategy, tactics and operations of viruses

How the W.H.O. bowed to China (NYT)

The Great Reset

Race to the bottom

Half of Europe’s Smaller Businesses Risk Bankruptcy Within Year (Bloomberg)

Top-10 of micro and macro arguments

Pandemic boosts automation and robotics (FT)

Why is a viral disease still on WHO’s A list?

How long (will this be going on)

The Great Barrington Declaration

Covid-19 risk analysis

The real lessons from Sweden’s approach to covid-19 (the Economist)

The three premises and its conclusion

Thousands of scientists urge end to ‘devastating’ lockdowns

Crime of the Century

Covid-19 risk matrix

De balans tussen economie en gezondheid is zoek

Herd or group behaviour

Unemployment rose higher in three months of COVID-19 than it did in two years of the Great Recession (Pew Research)

Why governments get covid-19 wrong (Economist)

U.S. Federal Debt 195% of GDP in 2050 (Bloomberg/Washington Times)

Why are governments ruining the future of the 99.9% ?

Accelerationism (2)

Ray Dalio Warns of Threat to Dollar as Reserve Currency (Bloomberg)

The economic hit from the virus has been more than four times worse than the financial crisis (NYT)

The Most Common Pain Relief Drug in The World Induces Risky Behaviour, Study Suggests (Science Alert)

By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity (Quanta)

The fight-flight-freeze-fawn response

The church of the poisoned minds

Survival of the fittest

Bear market for humans (Bloomberg)

Lockdown supporters cannot bear the thought that Sweden has got it right (Telegraph)

Fooled by absolute numbers

Sweden’s economy shrank less than eurozone’s at height of pandemic (FT)

From a COVID-19 Recession to COVID-19 Depression? (GPF)

The asymptomatic oxymoron: testing positive, not getting sick, and “very rarely” spreading the virus

Flattening the curve

Needs, Wants & Beliefs in reverse

Morality vs risk management

Convergent evolution (4)

“The dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem” (John Connally, 1971)

The danger of using absolute or relative numbers (2)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (2)

Some coronavirus calculations

‘Will the Fed spend trillion of dollars, every year, forever to support the market?’ asks billionaire Howard Marks (MarketWatch)

Hope for the best, plan for the worst (4)

WHO Says Transmission by Asymptomatic Covid Patients ‘Very Rare’ (National Review)

Coronavirus anomalies (2)

Why did our governments forget about care homes?

Risky business (Reuters BreakingViews)

Exclusive: Coronavirus began ‘as an accident’ in Chinese lab, says former MI6 boss (Telegraph)

China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO (AP)

Zo maakte China de WHO vleugellam in de coronacrisis (Volkskrant)

Pandemic’s overall death toll in U.S. likely surpassed 100,000 weeks ago (WaPo)

US is a mess but China isn’t the solution: Niall Ferguson (Nikkei Asian Review)

The mystery of coronavirus superspreaders (Axios)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Coronavirus: Trump’s health secretary says US has world’s worst death toll because Americans are so unhealthy (Independent)

Onder Trumps machtsstrijd met China verbrokkelt de wereld (Trouw)

2019 corona virus versus 1918 Spanish flu

Evidence mounts that outside is safer when it comes to COVID-19 (the Hill)

Why did China lie to us about its coronavirus? (2)

Politici staan in hun ideologische hemd (FD)

Het coronabeleid heeft dringend meer legitimiteit nodig (NRC)

How should you explain a pandemic?

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Coronavirus fear lets government assault our freedom in violation of Constitution (Fox)

Red and Blue America Agree That Now Is the Time to Violate the Constitution (Atlantic)

Spoedwet voor noodmaatregelen (NRC)

Noodverordening blijkt illegaal en moet worden aangepast (Trouw)

Tech firms show how much power they have (Telegraph)

Why China is losing the coronavirus narrative (FT)

A dead retail canary in a corona coal mine (4)

What could happen to countries run by virologists?

Will our post-corona lives be like the 1997 movie Gattaca?

The Great Moral Bankruptcy

A Coronavirus Strategy Memo to Chairman Xi (National Review)

Het virus zou niet discrimineren en iedereen treffen. Niets blijkt minder waar (Knack)

Microbial Jurassic Park? How a Virus Revived After 30,000 Years Differs From Coronavirus (Haaretz)

Coronavirus anomalies

Dr. Anthony Fauci: China misled the world; virus erupted in mid-December (WT)

Xi Jinping’s China did this (Times of Israel)

Many people may already have immunity to coronavirus, German study finds (Telegraph)

Has Sweden Found the Right Solution to the Coronavirus? (National Review)

Niall Ferguson’s six questions to the Chinese president

Niall Ferguson’s sechs Fragen an den chinesischen Präsidenten

Niall Ferguson’s zes vragen aan de Chinese president

The macro and micro side of the corona coin

A Universal Basic Income may arise from COVID-19’s ashes

Shattered illusions

Blood Type May Influence How Prone You Are to the Coronavirus, Report Says (Haaretz)

The coronavirus gulf dividing Europe and America (FT)

C.I.A. Hunts for Authentic Virus Totals in China, Dismissing Government Tallies (NYT)

China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says (Bloomberg)

Why did China lie to us about its coronavirus deaths?

April 1, Fool’s Day

Humans are experts in forgetting

Report of Urns Stacked at Wuhan Funeral Homes Raises Questions About the Real Coronavirus Death Toll in China (Time)

101-year-old man who survived 1918 flu beats coronavirus, too (Futurism)

Study: yes, half of coronavirus carriers show no symptoms (Futurism)

Senicide (4): how much is a human life worth?

What’s wrong with this picture?

Senicide: the abandonment to death, suicide, or killing of the elderly (2)

Senicide: het doelbewust doden van oudere mensen (1)

U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic (WaPo)

Ai No Corona (3) – a global domino effect

Covid-19 Is Nothing Like the Spanish Flu (Wired)

Ai No Corona (2) – micro vs macro

Ai No Corona

Exclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing (Atlantic)

Trump’s Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic (Atlantic)

Virus epidemics

Virus in Chinese outbreak is closest to one from bats, not snakes (MIT)

Asia is traditional cradle of influenza (NBC-2004)

Why plants panic when it rains (Phys)

Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’ (NYT)

Are planets evolutionary lab experiments?

Fungi, the interface between life and death

Bacteria may travel thousands of miles through the air globally (EurekAlert)

Metamorphosis

A New Discovery Upends What We Know About Viruses (Atlantic)

European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling (Conversation)

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