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Building Your Own Food Supply Chains During COVID-19 0
- Culture
- April 27, 2020
As we are all presently discovering, there are inherent risks built into the industrialized food system with its just-in-time delivery. In the last 150 years we have migrated away from growing our own food to relying on distant production facilities and long supply chains. This arrangement is highly efficient and profitable when times are good.
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Gender Prof: It’s a Problem if White Men Cure COVID-19 0
- Culture
- April 27, 2020
A few days ago, I came across a tweet predicting that the “brilliant intrepid scientist” who discovers a coronavirus vaccine will enjoy only “3 minutes of global admiration before people start combing through his old tweets to see if he ever said something problematic.” Can’t wait for some brilliant intrepid scientist to announce the cure for Coronavirus
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Attacks on Homeschooling Suggest Nervous Government Schools 0
- Education
- April 27, 2020
It’s funny how homeschooling – that once-upon-a-time fringe movement of education – has now become the norm. Everyone’s doing it out of sheer necessity. For some, it’s going great! What was at first a stressful and uncertain task is now becoming routine. In fact, a recent poll conducted by EdChoice found that over half of
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DHS Study Shows Potential of Heat, Humidity to Kill Coronavirus 2
- Breaking News
- April 24, 2020
A new Department of Homeland Security study shows that heat, humidity, and sunlight could help to kill the coronavirus, offering a potential literal ray of hope against the pandemic as summer nears. “Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus both [on] surfaces
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Why the Current Unemployment Is Worse Than the Great Depression 0
- Economics
- April 24, 2020
The latest report on new unemployment claims was abysmal, coming in at 4.4 million last week, some 100,000 more than surveyed economists had expected. The continuous claims came in at just under 16 million, an all-time record. Mainstream labor economists estimate that, all things considered, the actual unemployment rate now (which is only officially reported
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Movies for Isolation, 1939 Edition 0
- Culture
- April 24, 2020
By the common acclamation of many critics and film historians, as well as amateur aficionados like me, 1939 was the most notable single year for the release of great movies in the golden age of American filmmaking. Everyone knows it is the year that gave us Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
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