- What made the California fires worse: environmental protection for the smelt.
- Jimmy Carter’s boldest deregulation idea never happened.
- Lessons from all the past efforts to cut wasteful government spending.
- There is no relationship between climate change and wildfires.
- How long we live is 25% determined by our genes and 75% determined by lifestyle and environment. (NYT)
- Claim: breastfeeding could save 800,000 child lives a year.
- The virtual cell: “Scientists are now designing computer programs that may unlock the ability to simulate human cells, giving researchers the ability to predict the effect of a drug, mutation, virus, or any other change in the body, and in turn making physical experiments more targeted and likelier to succeed.”
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- Penn Wharton Budget Model fiscal reform proposal: much flatter income tax, a carbon tax, mainly no exclusion for employer provided heath insurucne, higher retirement age, etc.
- Kids who pass the marshmallow test turn out to be happier later in life.
- Health care spending in the US reached $4.9 trillion and increased 7.5 percent in 2023, growing from a rate of 4.6 percent in 2022.
- Despite concerns about vaccine safety, the (child) vaccination rate today is the same as it was 40 years ago.
- Employee benefits for gig workers.
Saturday Links
- Has Trump’s election sparked more vasectomies?
- Why is the US growing faster than other countries, even though our students do worse on test scores?
- Walmart says it can now offer same day delivery (including pharmaceuticals) to 86% of all US households.
- Study: Substantial Medicare price reductions in the medical device industry over 20 years led to a 29% decline in new product introductions and an 80% decrease in patent filings.
- Are drug expiration dates meaningless?
- Some people on X are cheering the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder.