Rural heath care’s greatest need: doctors licensed in other states.
There appears to have been a recent lab leak of pneumonic plague in Russia that killed a lab worker.
Category: Wednesday Links
Wednesday Links – 16 September 2026
- More men are single; and they are unhappy.
- The importance of “Polanyi knowledge.”
- How the AI industry is thinking about slowing the pace of AI development.
- Update on the nursing shortage: There are still plenty of registered nurses in the United States, enough to fill most empty positions, but there’s a shortage of jobs they’re willing to take.
- Why America is running out of doctors.
Wednesday Links – 9 September 2026
- UHC is pouring money into top ranking democrat’s campaign.
- Real median income under Trump is still up by roughly $2,000.
- Scientists can gene edit to produce a better dog. (NYT)
- Absent unwise regulations, nuclear power would have cost about one-tenth as much by 2015. The additional generation could have avoided as many as 9.5 million premature deaths.
Wednesday Links – 2 September 2026
- Study: Climbing at least six flights a day reduces the likelihood of a major cardiovascular issue, like stroke or heart attack.
- Should Robert E. Lee’s portrait hang at West Point?
- 12 OECD countries had individual net wealth taxes in 1990. By 2017, only four OECD countries still had them.
- The new pancreatic cancer drug will cost $480,000 a year. (NYT)
- Electronic medical records: The industry became exceptionally good at documenting encounters…. What it never became particularly good at was helping individuals assemble those encounters into a coherent picture of their health over time.