~ Today's Water Cooler ~

Just off the Alabama coast lies a unique submerged 60,000 year-old cypress forest. Legislation is pending to preserve it from marauders.

ow difficult is the process for getting a Covid vaccine where you live?

SPAC mania, with billions raised: this time it’s different, everyone is saying again – another sign that the zoo has gone nuts.

A scorecard for various approaches to combatting the looming European banking crisis.

An expansive interpretation of a character test is excluding baseball's top performers from induction into the Hall of Fame; should it?

Defense Intelligence Agency skirts constitutional warrant requirements by buying location data from data brokers.

Why bad conduct is more prevalent in societies with high inequality.

A happy gut = better immune responses = higher odds of beating back Covid. Eat more pickles!

What did the Capitol rioters actually do?

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

With Covid-19 driving many migrants to return to their countries of origin, governments need to implement better reintegration plans.

A clear eyed and therefore not cheery look at where President Biden is set to take the US.

Sanders is about to have considerable influence on spending priorities. Where and how does he have leverage?

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Quelle surprise! Only now that EU and US officials are up in arms about monopolies are macroeconomics pros taking it seriously.