Around the Traps 23/9/23

 It is time again for Around the Traps

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• croaking cassandra on marketing-brochure
• Connor O'Brien on critical-minerals-critical-choices-australia-s-role-shaping-green-revolution
• Ross Gittins on all-reasons-interest-rates-are-bad-way-to-manage-an-economy, productivity-debate-descends-into-damned-lies-and-statistics-mode, how-to-make-big-business-deliver-for-us
• Kevin Bonham on losing-republic-like-its-1999-polling
• Yiting Zhang et al on who-really-benefits-from-private-health-insurance-rebates-not-people-who-need-cover-the-most
• Kate Galloway on no-the-voice-to-parliament-would-not-force-people-to-give-up-their-private-land
• Antony Green on when-will-the-next-federal-election-be-will-it-be-held-early
• Celeste Young et al on worried-about-heat-and-fire-this-summer-heres-how-to-to-prepare
• John Quiggin on french-lesson-french-lesson-we-dont-need-nuclear-power-we-need-a-new-pierre-messmer, living-in-the-70s-why-australias-dominant-model-of-unemployment-and-inflation-no-longer-works
• Michael Toole et al on a-covid-inquiry-has-been-announced-but-is-covid-still-a-thing-do-i-need-a-booster

OZ climate

• Adam Morton on nuclear-energy-australia-smokescreen-climate-denialism-coalition
• Mark howden and frank Jotzo on net-zero-by-2050-too-late-australia-must-aim-for-2035
• Martine Maron et al on nature-positive-isnt-just-planting-a-few-trees-its-actually-stopping-the-damage-we-do
• extend-the-ret-expert-says-and-dont-pay-coal-plants-for-a-job-they-cant-do
  
• rooftop-solar-sends-coal-to-record-low-and-peaks-at-nearly-half-of-all-grid-demand
  
• lies-and-fantasies-bowen-puts-387-billion-price-tag-on-duttons-nuclear-plans
  
• rooftop-solar-eats-up-all-demand-in-south-australia-worlds-most-renewable-grid
  
• the-stunning-stupidity-of-the-coalition-nuclear-push-is-now-in-plain-view
  
• aemo-and-csiro-to-lead-new-study-into-100-pct-renewable-grids
  
• another-big-solar-farm-plugs-into-the-grid-this-one-to-help-power-the-nbn
  
• we-should-lead-australia-urged-to-fast-track-net-zero-to-2035-as-el-nino-declared
  
• renewables-sail-past-70-pct-on-australias-main-grid-send-coal-to-fresh-lows
  
• renewables-are-cheaper-than-ever-yet-fossil-fuel-use-is-still-growing-heres-why
  
• aemo-celebrates-new-renewables-record-but-it-could-have-been-much-higher
  

Northern America

• Institutional economics on lehman-15-years-on-the-lehman-moment-was-not-a-lehmann-moment
• noahopinion on whos-afraid-of-the-huawei-mate-60
• the conversable economist on reality-check-on-us-manufacturing-jobs, reality-check-on-median-household-income
• lawyers guns money on failed-presidential-candidate-wants-more-of-his-constituents-to-die Thanks Brad
• Chris Anstey on sticking-the-landing Thanks Brad
• Benji Jones on florida-coral-reef-bleaching-heat-wave-climate-change
• Ellen Ioannes on trump-meet-the-press-presidential-election-2024
• Shiriin Ali on trump-trials-2024-impartial-jury-selection-jurors
• calculated risk on cleveland-fed-median-cpi-increased-03-in-august
• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-fifth-circuit-term-cfpb-guns-voting-chevron, supreme-court-alabama-defiance-voting-rights-act-racial-gerrymandering-brett-kavanaugh
• Mainly Macro on democracy-on-knife-edge-in-united-states
• Thomas Gift and Julie Norman on trump-on-trial-experts-answer-key-legal-and-political-questions-about-what-could-happen-next
• Umair Irfan on coastal-climate-ocean-rising-miami-florida-building
• Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern on brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-whoopsie-groundhog-day
• David Graham on janet-protasiewicz-impeachment-state-courts
• Jeet Heer on mitt-romney-gop-trump
• Nitish Pawha on india-canada-murder-hardeep-singh-nijjar-trudeau-modi-khalistan
• Noah Feldman on the-courts-conservative-constitutional-revolution
• the overshoot on the-feds-bullishness-is-pushing-up-rates Thanks Brad
• Andrew Prokop on bob-menendez-indictment-charges-corruption-scandal-bribery-wife

Europe

• Tim Harford on the-uk-is-doing-a-shoddy-job-keeping-up-with-its-neighbours
• Kelly Bjorkland and Simon Smith on ukraine-war-reports-suggest-that-russia-has-been-deliberately-targeting-journalists-which-is-a-war-crime
• Jen Kirby on ukraine-defense-ministry-dismissals-zelenskyy-unga
• Joel Eissenberg on timothy-snyder-on-why-we-should-thank-ukrainians
• Stefan Wolf on nagorno-karabakh-longest-war-in-post-soviet-space-flares-yet-again-as-russia-distracted-in-ukraine
• noahopinion on germany-needs-to-stop-messing-around

Asia

• Gabriela Bernal on north-korea-undeterred-putin-s-pleasure
• Joseph Webster and Zoe Leung on beijing-s-plan-taiwan-challenges-its-offshore-wind-push
• Ellen Ioannes on china-disappearing-senior-military-officers-li-shangfu-xi-jinping-peoples-liberation-army
• Afshin Shahi on mahsa-amini-a-year-into-the-protest-movement-in-iran-this-is-whats-changed
• Munira Mustaffa on no-neutrality-espionage-why-malaysia-tangled-spying-case-norway
• Andrew Selth on how-credible-are-casualty-figures-coming-out-myanmar
• Stuti Bhatnagar on explainer-what-is-the-khalistan-movement-sparking-a-diplomatic-feud-between-india-and-canada
• Cherry Hitkari on how-china-sees-its-conflict-philippines
• Robert Walker and Roland Rajah on china-does-not-need-currency-manipulation-boost-its-exports
• Syed Haider on pakistan-crossroads-blasphemy

Wonk

• noahopinion on an-age-of-austerity-is-probably-on-its-way
• the conversable economist on partha-dasgupta-and-tim-besley-talk-sustainability-and-biodiversity, larry-summers-and-a-new-washington-consensus
• Henry Storey on camp-david-agreement-s-shallow-foundations
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-naomi-kleins-brand

General

• Adrian Barnett and Nicole White on tests-that-diagnose-diseases-are-less-reliable-than-youd-expect-heres-why

Climate

• Jonathon Symons on we-are-poised-to-pass-1-5-of-global-warming-world-leaders-offer-4-ways-to-manage-this-dangerous-time
• skeptical science on climate-destroying-reefs-more-than-ecological, at-a-glance-volcanoes
• Frank Jotzo and Michelle Lyons on global-stocktake-unlocking-trillions-climate-action

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• evidence-based-medicine-does-it-lead-to-people-turning-off-their-brains
  
• harvard-law-prof-sez-i-believe-that-if-universities-are-going-to-accept-blood-money-the-should-only-ever-accept-that-money-anonymously
  
• are-there-clear-examples-of-the-opposite-idea-where-four-visually-similar-visualizations-can-have-vastly-different-numerical-stats
  
• creating-community-in-a-data-science-classroom
  
• the-freaky-friday-that-never-happened
  
• how-to-quit-smoking-and-a-challenge-to-currently-standard-individualistic-theories-in-social-science
  
• a-message-to-parkinsons-disease-researchers-design-a-study-to-distinguish-between-these-two-competing-explanations-of-the-fact-that-the-incidence-of-parkinsons-is-lower-among-smokers
  
• in-which-we-answer-some-questions-about-regression-discontinuity-designs
  
• my-sciml-webinar-next-week-28-sep-multiscale-generalized-hamiltonian-monte-carlo-with-delayed-rejection
  
• west-point-like-major-league-baseball-was-purely-based-on-merit-and-achievement-before-jackie-robinson-and-that-tuskegee-airman-guy-came-along-and-messed-everything-up
  

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• nuttin

vox wonk

• tackling-child-malnutrition-long-run-global-perspective-persistent-issue
  
• hot-temperatures-new-player-housing-markets
  
• penny-pound-enforcement-dilemma-eu-fiscal-rules
  
• targeting-bans-exports-russia
  
• accounting-duality-italian-economy
  
• teacher-gender-biases-exist-and-have-long-term-effects
  
• unleashing-potential-model-based-reform-benchmarking-eu-member-states
  
• acquisitions-redistribute-risk-after-financial-crises
  
• eu-and-irelands-economic-growth-and-recovery
  
• violence-against-female-politicians