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Nature walks, nature settings, as an essential way to boost mental health and wellbeing during the pandemic
10/09/2021
It is proven that just two hours a week of walks in nature setting in parks, natural settings, green areas, or forested areas, can be hugely beneficial for health and wellbeing during the pandemic. Long and recurrent lockdowns or partial lockdowns, closure of schools, loss of work and income, have had devastating effects on mental health in many countries. Much needs to be done to promote nature walks and bringing nature as a healing mechanism to take some of the burden off the overburdened health services of many countries. Awareness of this in the UK and funds + projects to do this can be a model for other countries.
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Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
The Guardian 06/13/2019
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
NYTimes.com 10/04/2021
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
The Guardian 09/30/2021
Natural health service: wildlife volunteers get mental health boost
The Guardian 10/02/2017
Nature on prescription: wetlands project aims to boost mental health
The Guardian 05/13/2021
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
The Guardian 10/09/2021
How women can navigate the waters to find a family friendly workplace and get men to share in household chores. This is important for women's Mental Health.
09/24/2021
During the pandemic women increasingly stayed at home while men continued to work. Figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show women ended up with doing even more household chores than men in 2020 compared to 2019. As a result women during the coronavirus feel worn out or burned out in addition to losing income. WSJ offers ways women can tackle this problem both by getting men to share in household chores, and finding employers who are family friendly as the coronavirus pandemic declines in 2022.
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How to Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
WSJ 09/24/2021
Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load.
WSJ 09/23/2021
Wall Street Journal Facebook Investigation and the Outrage Algorithm, Instagram's toxic nature for teen girls
09/21/2021
An algorithm that exaggerates the outrage online creating an angrier place on the internet is one of the findings of the WSJ Facebook Investigation. It shows broken policies, broken tech and broken management. The effects on women are equally insidious and dangerous for mental health.
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The Facebook Files, Part 4: The Outrage Algorithm - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 09/20/2021
WSJ 09/15/2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/2021
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
WSJ 06/08/2019
WSJ 09/16/2021
Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House
WSJ 07/18/2021
How lifting of a ban on research manipulation of a virus in 2018 by NIH (US) and HHS is related to the transmissibility of coronavirus and the pandemic
06/04/2021
Research on increasing the pathogenic power of the virus by engineering part of its genome is seen as a possible cause of the pandemic in these articles in WSJ and other media sources, based on new memos released under the Freedom if Information Act. These memos by virologists to Dr.Fauci at NIH in the US gave their analysis after their first look at the virus genome for coronavirus. The lifting of the ban on such research by US Health ministry and the NIH agency in 2018 led to labs in overseas locations being funded with US funds to conduct such research.
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Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab
WSJ 06/03/2021
Ban on gain-of-function studies ends
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021
U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins
NYTimes.com 05/28/2021
Did Covid come from a Wuhan lab? What we know so far
The Guardian 05/27/2021
Call for a Full and Unrestricted International Forensic Investigation
Group of 26 Scientists from Australia, France, Britain and the US 03/04/2021
WSJ 03/30/2021
Global corporate minimum tax rate to pay for new infrastructure
04/07/2021
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Biden Softens Tax Plan Aimed at Profitable Companies That Pay Little
WSJ 04/07/2021
G-20 to Seek Agreement on Global Minimum Tax Rate by Mid-2021
WSJ 04/07/2021
Treasury’s Yellen Calls for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
WSJ 04/05/2021
Yellen Pushes for Global Minimum Tax Rate on Companies: Live Updates
NYTimes.com 04/05/2021
Biden Infrastructure Plan Aims to Boost Economy’s Productivity Over Time
WSJ 04/01/2021
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/2021
Biden's multi-trillion infrastructure spending plans for renewal of America
03/30/2021
US president Biden is pushing ahead with infrastructure spending on a big scale. He no longer seeks support from Republicans as he does not want to see the plans shrink. He is able to do this because the American people now have new perceptions about the role of government. They see it as indispensable in trade, global supply chains, protecting American technology, and in keeping America ahead with the latest infrastructure, skills development with education, healthcare that keeps Americans healthy.
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Live Updates: Learning From the Past, Biden Aims for Big Spending Early in His Term
NYTimes.com 03/30/2021
Biden to Outline Proposal for Infrastructure Spending, Tax Increases
WSJ 03/30/2021
Behind Biden’s Big Plans: Belief That Government Can Drive Growth
WSJ 03/30/2021
One-term leader Joe Biden in a hurry
The Times 04/01/2021
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/2021
Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy of Amazon- the growth story of cloud computing and online retail
02/04/2021
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Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Shows the Cloud’s Rising Power
WSJ 02/03/2021
Jeff Bezos Exits as CEO, but His Role at Amazon Will Likely Little Change
WSJ 02/04/2021
Jeff Bezos to stand down as Amazon chief executive
The Times 02/04/2021
Profile: Andy Jassy, the new Amazon boss taking over from Jeff Bezos
The Times 02/04/2021
Amazon: End of an era but also the dawn of a new day
The Times 02/04/2021
The Meeting between Jupiter and Saturn visible in the night skies in December 2020, first since 1623
12/22/2020
Pictures from Kansas and southern Spain to Antalya, Turkey in the night skies as shown in The Guardian and DW.com. An interview by DW.com with Giles Sparrow who tells us about 21 stars out of 200 billion in The Milky Way and beyond. Man and earth a small piece, very small, in this vast planetary system about which we know so little. These pictures and words have more meaning during the pandemic.
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What 21 stars tell us about the Universe | DW | 22.12.2020
DW.COM 12/22/2020
The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn | DW | 21.12.2020
DW.COM 12/21/2020
Jupiter and Saturn's great conjunction – in pictures
The Guardian 12/22/2020
A Christmas Star? Jupiter and Saturn Alignment Sparks Comparisons
WSJ 12/20/2020
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter’s Orbit
The New York Times 07/05/2016
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
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Europe in the second wave of the coronavirus and lockdowns in France, Germany and Britain
11/02/2020
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Lockdown 2? The PM’s friends in the north have lived it for months
The Times 11/01/2020
New lockdown: ‘Boris Johnson had no option. He could not ignore the facts any longer’
The Times 11/01/2020
French buy up toilet paper and pasta ahead of second lockdown
France 24 10/31/2020
As French hunker down for second Covid-19 lockdown, the new rules explained
France 24 10/31/2020
Covid-19 Live Updates: European Hospitals Are Filling at an Alarming Pace
NYTimes.com 10/29/2020
Coronavirus: France announces second lockdown | DW | 28.10.2020
DW.COM 10/28/2020
Rising prices for homes and cars during the pandemic
09/09/2020
With a limited supply of homes and lost car production, the remaining supply is being sold at higher prices to people who have not lost jobs during the pandemic. The cars are more upscale and the homes are further away from the core parts of cities.
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Car Sales Are Down Almost 20%, but Prices Are Setting Records
WSJ 09/04/2020
World War II- the Forgotten Men and Women of India, America and Mexico
09/09/2020
Indian pilots and army numbering 2.5 million who fought aginst Japanese in Imphal, and Germans in Italy. The black women who performed postal duties in Europe for 17 million pieces of mail in the war in England to be delivered to soldiers in Europe, and later at Rouen, France. The Mexican pilots of the 201st squadron attached to the Fifth U.S. Air Force.
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Shift of American manufacturing overseas and the disastrous results for jobs, pandemic
08/27/2020
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How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
The New York Times 12/29/2016
California Nears Deal to Adopt a $15 State Minimum Wage
New York Times 03/27/2016
Opinion | Bringing the Factories Home
WSJ 07/19/2020
Donald Trump Presides Over GOP Remade in His Image
WSJ 08/26/2020
China’s Faux Comparative Advantage
WSJ 04/15/2018
Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers
The New York Times 02/28/2018
Serious rethink of existing global supply chains
10/05/2021
Redesign of global supply chains is underway.
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Supply chain crisis causes rethink at multinationals
10/03/21
‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course
The Guardian 10/02/21
East Asia’s Economies Face Slowing Growth and Rising Inequality, World Bank Warns
WSJ 09/28/21
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable
WSJ 06/19/21
For Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick and Cheap?
NYTimes.com 05/11/21
How women can navigate the waters to find a family friendly workplace and get men to share in household chores. This is important for women's Mental Health.
09/24/2021
During the pandemic women increasingly stayed at home while men continued to work. Figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show women ended up with doing even more household chores than men in 2020 compared to 2019. As a result women during the coronavirus feel worn out or burned out in addition to losing income. WSJ offers ways women can tackle this problem both by getting men to share in household chores, and finding employers who are family friendly as the coronavirus pandemic declines in 2022.
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How to Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
WSJ 09/24/21
Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load.
WSJ 09/23/21
Kick the sugar habit
07/17/2021
Healthy living means no more than 6% of daily calories of 2000 calories a day should come from sugar intake. During the coronavirus pandemic poor health habits mean pouring gasoline on fire. It is morally indefensible and a sign of a backward country that the the health guideline is set at 10% in the US. The mean consumption of sugar today in the US is 13%. In teaspoons about 6-8 teaspoons of added sugar is the healthy limit, at 16 calories per teaspoon this is 96 calories to 120 calories from added sugar. In grams this is 24 grams at 4 grams per teaspoon of sugar. It is critical to make it a habit to look at packaged foods labels and make intelligent choices. And to simply cut the sugar we add in tea, coffee or drinks by a third or a fourth. Good habits = good health. It is also critical to start this with public education in schools from K1 to high school.
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Boris Johnson must help us kick our sugar habit
The Times 07/17/21
Beware sugar highs: seven healthy ways to get more energy – from stretching to sourdough
The Guardian 04/05/21
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
WSJ 10/05/20
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
NYTimes.com 01/06/19
Biden's Families Plan to help women, workers and students
05/05/2021
The unfinished tasks from the New Deal of FDR are taken up in Biden's first year in 2021, around the first 100 days. Help for struggling families, women, workers and students is at the heart of the $1.8 trillion Families Plan.
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Biden’s Speech to Congress: Full Transcript
NYTimes.com 04/30/21
Opinion | A New Deal, This Time for Everyone
NYTimes.com 05/04/21
Video: President Biden’s Joint Session Address
NYTimes.com 04/30/21
Biden Makes His Pitch to Congress
NYTimes.com 04/30/21
The Biden Plan for Free Community College Has a Big Challenge
NYTimes.com 04/28/21
Biden Details $1.8 Trillion Plan for Workers, Students and Families
NYTimes.com 04/28/21
Global corporate minimum tax rate to pay for new infrastructure
04/07/2021
Grouped Articles
Biden Softens Tax Plan Aimed at Profitable Companies That Pay Little
WSJ 04/07/21
G-20 to Seek Agreement on Global Minimum Tax Rate by Mid-2021
WSJ 04/07/21
Treasury’s Yellen Calls for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
WSJ 04/05/21
Yellen Pushes for Global Minimum Tax Rate on Companies: Live Updates
NYTimes.com 04/05/21
Biden Infrastructure Plan Aims to Boost Economy’s Productivity Over Time
WSJ 04/01/21
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/21
Biden $1.9 trillion aid and US economic rebound by 2022
03/11/2021
The Biden aid package for $1.9 trillion, with over 50% going to ordinary Americans hit hardest by the coronavirus, leads to new optimism about an American economic rebound. The package cleared the US Congress on March 10, 2021. By the end of 2022 the OECD forecast is for a US economy that is larger than forecast before the pandemic.
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New Stimulus Package Brings Big Benefits to the Middle Class
NYTimes.com 03/11/21
With Relief Plan, Biden Takes on a New Role: Crusader for the Poor
NYTimes.com 03/11/21
Triumphant Joe Biden secures $1.9trn bailout rescue deal
The Times 03/11/21
Unexpected U.S. Growth Surge Could Unbalance Fragile Global Economy
WSJ 03/09/21
China’s Rise Drives a U.S. Experiment in Industrial Policy
WSJ 03/10/21
America’s Battery-Powered Car Hopes Ride on Lithium. One Producer Paves the Way.
WSJ 03/09/21
How "Made in America" was lost in making the chips that power smartphones, laptops and devices in cloud computing
12/22/2020
The story of how America went from making 75% of the world's chips in 1990 for electronic devices to 12% in 2020. And of China's rise from zero or negligible to becoming the largest maker of chips in the same period. The failure to protect American technology is the major lesson from this period as America looks at regaining the advantage and becoming once more the leader in technology and manufacturing.
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Intel Not Inside: How Mobile Chips Overtook the Semiconductor Giant
WSJ 12/22/20
How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company
WSJ 12/22/20
Why Fewer Chips Say ‘Made in the U.S.A.’
WSJ 12/22/20
Renewal America- America's National Parks
12/04/2020
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This Land is Your Land – about this series
The Guardian 12/04/20
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
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Battleground states in the 2020 U.S. election
11/02/2020
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Coronavirus Deaths, Job Losses Hit Pennsylvania Hardest of 2020 Battlegrounds
WSJ 10/23/20
The Battlegrounds Within Battlegrounds
NYTimes.com 10/31/20
Arizona: Could shifting demographics turn a solid red state blue? - American Views
France 24 11/01/15
Wisconsin voters see the future of US farming as a key issue - American Views
France 24 11/01/20
Fracking: The Unexpected Issue That Could Determine the 2020 Election
WSJ 10/30/20
Rising prices for homes and cars during the pandemic
09/09/2020
With a limited supply of homes and lost car production, the remaining supply is being sold at higher prices to people who have not lost jobs during the pandemic. The cars are more upscale and the homes are further away from the core parts of cities.
Grouped Articles
Car Sales Are Down Almost 20%, but Prices Are Setting Records
WSJ 09/04/20
World War II- the Forgotten Men and Women of India, America and Mexico
09/09/2020
Indian pilots and army numbering 2.5 million who fought aginst Japanese in Imphal, and Germans in Italy. The black women who performed postal duties in Europe for 17 million pieces of mail in the war in England to be delivered to soldiers in Europe, and later at Rouen, France. The Mexican pilots of the 201st squadron attached to the Fifth U.S. Air Force.
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