Something interesting happened recently: Can we use apps like Sickweather to predict public health problems in the future? Here is your location for reference. What do you think?
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Today on LinkedIN I learned the three most interesting facts since joining that website two or three years ago. 1. Our economy is looking like the Roaring Twenties . Income inequality is high, but the real fear is the declining population due to rising education rates (and the corresponding drop in replacement rates) will cause a housing bubble pop. This will be like 2008 but much much worse. 2. We can vaccinate mice against Lyme disease so that the ticks have less Lyme disease to spread when they bite you. We feed them MnM like kibble so that they can get the vaccine into their body without having to hunt them down and inject them. #vaccineswork https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccinating-mice-may-finally-slow-lyme-disease/ \ 3. Populism is a Modern (read: the last 500 years since Columbus) Affairs. It isn't new! Charles C. Mann is golden. https://www.axios.com/charles-mann-1493-global-world-columbus-created-382e2a9a-71dd-45e6-950c-dae963b0fa60.html
The rise of Social Commentary in Alternative Rock Bands
Both Brandon Flowers and the Script are commenting on America at large. This is not normal from listening to their music. They state that they usually avoid politics and religion. These are also people who place rather more conservative views on religion in their music than other groups I have heard, and so I wonder if this is a fundamental shift in how they view the world. Land of the Free Divided States of America--the Script