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Tug Life

3 years 9 months ago
From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.
Sarah Jaffe

Chart of the day: The inequality of life expectancy by income

3 years 9 months ago
It's a well-known fact that in the United States rich people have much longer life expectancies than poor people. Much of this is attributed to our private health care system, which does a lousy job of treating the uninusured and underinsured. That got me curious: do other countries with national health care systems do better? ...continue reading "Chart of the day: The inequality of life expectancy by income"
Kevin Drum

Quote of the day: Colonialism in modern space exploration

3 years 9 months ago
From Doug Johnson, writing about the need for indigenous voices in the search for extraterrestrial life: Other trappings of colonialism have ended up in modern space exploration. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wore a cowboy hat before his spaceflight, for example. In all, if anyone out there is looking, said Shorter, humanity isn’t necessarily putting its ...continue reading "Quote of the day: Colonialism in modern space exploration"
Kevin Drum