Thursday, October 8, 2020

Why Don’t Young People Vote?

Why Don’t Young People Vote, and What Can Be Done About It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/upshot/youth-voting-2020-election.html 

India - Geography, Gender, and Socio-Economic Development

Wealth Inequality in the US

 The 50 Richest Americans Are Worth as Much as the Poorest 165 Million
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-08/top-50-richest-people-in-the-us-are-worth-as-much-as-poorest-165-million
 
Top 1% Of U.S. Households Hold 15 Times More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Combined
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/10/08/top-1-of-us-households-hold-15-times-more-wealth-than-bottom-50-combined/#747d1b5b5179 

Science and Climate Change

Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/07/radiative-cooling-climate-change/
Scientists are tapping into a law of physics to create cooling systems that work without special fuel or electricity

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

2020 Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to two women who developed CRISPR, a revolutionary gene-editing tool
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/10/07/nobel-prize-chemistry/
Related:
PBS Frontline Documentary on CRISPR:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/human-nature/

Sir Roger Penrose: The man who proved black holes weren't 'impossible'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54439150
American Andrea Ghez, two others win Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries about black holes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/10/06/nobel-prize-physics/

The Uneven US Economic Recovery

Venezuela’s Economic Woes