Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Salmon: "Mass escape from Colonsay fish farm after Storm Brendan"

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From Coastal Communities Network—Scotland: Mowi Scotland has reported the escape of 73,600 salmon with an average weight of 1.9 kilograms...

"Norway's Slow TV to feature Svalbard round the clock for nine days"

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Sounds good but I don't see how anything can top National Knitting Night .* Jus' sayin' From the Barents Observer: Fascinat...

Autonomous Vehicles: "Major Trends in Russian Military Unmanned Systems Development for the Next Decade"

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From the U.S. Army's Mad Scientist Initiative: [ Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory has previously described how unmanned sys...

Shipping: How To Drive a Boat

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It helps if you have a friendly tug nearby but still takes more skill than most folks could ever learn. From Thrillist:   Cruise Ship Ma...

Foxconn's Terry Gou Buying Beverly Hills Properties

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Hmmm....hidey hole? From The Real Deal (L.A.): Bird Streets home flies off the market for $33M to reported Taiwanese buyer The sale...

Yes, But How Do I Trade Dengue Fever?

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From Markets Not Live at FT Alphaville: ...this chart from Bankhaus Lampe presenting the MSCI’s response to various maladies: As w...

Blockchain Babies Lament 30% Fall In VC Activity

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From CB Insights, January 22: Despite a drop in total funding dollars, investment activity in the fourth quarter of 2019 points towards p...

Jean-Louis Gassée: "IoT Trouble: The Sonos Example — And More"

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When we last checked in with M. Gassée, the former Apple honcho was opining on Tesla and he was not impressed. Here's something else h...

"Trade and the Farm Economy: Two Charts to Watch in 2020"

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From Agricultural Economic Insights Insights, January 27: Before the ink dried on the newly signed Phase 1 trade agreement, dozens of art...

Creighton University's Rural Mainstreet Index Begins 2020 on Strong Footing: Bank Loans to Farms Lowest in Almost 7 Years

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From Creighton Uni's Heider School of Business, January 16: January Survey Results at a Glance: Overall index remained above grow...
Monday, January 27, 2020

China Looks to Further its Arctic Role by Constructing Ice Breaking Arc7 LNG Carriers

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From Arctic Today, January 22: China’s Hudong Zhonghua shipyard aims to construct ice-capable LNG carriers for Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 proj...

"Ukraine Billionaire Emerges As Buyer Of $220 Million French Home"

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We looked at the property a few years ago, more after the jump: From Bloomberg: Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, has emerged as the...

"IHS Markit Data : Six New Records Set by LNG Industry in 2019"

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From LNG Global Jan 21, 2020: 2019 was a record-shattering year for the LNG industry according to a new report by IHS Markit. The ...

Pioneer Fund Manager On Investing in Aquaculture

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From The Fish Site: A pioneer's guide to investing in aquaculture On the fifth anniversary of their first investment in aquaculture,...

"Can the American casket monopoly be disrupted?" (HI; MATW)

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What? Why? Oh no reason, certainly not a ghoulish search for second-order effects and third-derivative pandemic trades. From The Hustle:...

The Weak El Niño Weakens Further and Once Weakened Moves On*

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*Apologies to Omar Kayyam. From IRI/Columbia: IRI ENSO Forecast 2020 January Quick Look Published: January 21, 2020 A monthly summary...

Nassim Taleb et al On Coronavirus

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Mr. Taleb is one of the authors of this short piece. HOW TO REACT TO PANDEMICS can be dowloaded belo @normonics ,  @yaneerbaryam #C...

"Michael Avenatti searched 'Nike put options' and 'insider trading' before allegedly trying to extort the sportswear giant"

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Obviously not Familiar with Professor Levine's work on this subject. * From Business Insider: Lawyer Michael Avenatti searched for ...

"10-Year Treasury Yield & Viral Outbreaks"

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From Isabelnet's twitter feed: 🇺🇸 10-Year Treasury Yield & Viral Outbreaks The chart shows that the impact of previous vir...

It's Time For Big Tech To Decide If They Are Platforms or Publishers (FB; GOOG; TWTR; AMZN)

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Okay, maybe allowing big tech to make the call is too weak-willed. Maybe they should be told they are one or the other. From the Universit...