Friday, August 28, 2020

Gamification: It's Definitely Not Fun and Games

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From Real Life Magazine, August 27: The Gamification of Games When play becomes chiefly about data collection Despite its name, gamifi...

"The Big Tech Extortion Racket" (GOOG; AMZN; FB)

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The author of this piece caused a bit of a contretemps a few years ago that the reader may recall. From his Wikipedia mini-bio: Barry C. L...

Mad Scientist Blog: "Three Futurist Urban Scenarios"

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This is stuff the U.S. Army pays people to think about. And one thing they think about is the urban landscape. Here are a couple of the sc...

"Feral Cities"

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Sticking with the urban environment. From the U.S. Naval War College Review (2003): Imagine a great metropolis covering hundreds of squa...

Complexity: Travel Routes and the Organization of Cities

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First posted in February 2018: In January's " A conversation about how public transport really works " I mentioned: My inte...

Why 150 Million People In Six Red Sea Countries Should Be Watching Mauritius’ Oil Spill Response

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It's been a month since we last checked in on this, nothing done yet. From Forbes, August 24: 150 million people live in six countri...

"Fed’s Total Assets Fall Again, Week 11 Since Peak-QE: Crazy Charts for Crazy Times"

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From Wolf Street, August 27:   “Two steps forward, two steps back”: Fed’s new song and dance, no? Total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet...

Britain: "Dire wheat harvest after 'season of extremes' prompts bread price rise fears"

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From a May 2019 post: One of the Scariest Sentences In the English Language: Crop Progress Report Edition "In the spring of 1315, un...

Natural Gas Weekly Update

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From the Energy Information Administration: ....Prices/Supply/Demand: Prices rise in most demand hubs with storm activity in the Gulf o...

Capital Markets: "Powell and Abe Drive Markets"

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From Marc to Market: Overview: After a confused and volatile reaction to the Federal Reserve's formal adoption of an average inflatio...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

"The future of food from the sea"

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From the journal Nature , August 19: Abstract Global food demand is rising, and serious questions remain about whether supply can inc...