Extra, Extra
Bull Bear Market: “After years of economic turmoil and droughts, the U.S. cattle herd has shrunk to its smallest level in 75 years. The supply shock is driving up steak and hamburger prices at grocery stores and restaurants to record highs—conditions that could last well into the next decade, given how long it takes to replenish a herd.” WSJ (Gift Article): Why High Beef Prices Are Here to Stay. (It will be interesting to see how the beef price crisis impacts public health.)
+ Blinded to Science: “For nearly a century, the United States has been the global leader in cultivating young scientists, training them at the nation’s vast network of universities and harnessing their talents to ensure American dominance in research and innovation. But now that Ph.D. pipeline is in turmoil.” Young Talent Fueled American Scientific Dominance. Now It’s Disappearing. (The midterms were great. But it will take years and years to undo the damage of Trumpism across many sectors.)
+ Cold War: “The U.S. evacuated American aircraft from a Royal Air Force base in England on Monday in the wake of a threat from Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.” U.S. Aircraft Evacuated From Second U.K. Base Due to Iran Threat. Meanwhile, Iran Attacks Europe’s Refrigerators.
+ Tennis Elbowing: “At a time when the rich are walling themselves off from both society and reality—building apocalypse bunkers in New Zealand, buying gated homes in Miami and Newport Beach—there’s one major problem with their escapist fantasies: other rich people.” An insane, multi-year drama between billionaires that revolves around the person who was working in a tennis pro shop. This is, at least in part, a story about people who live for conflict. Toronto Life: Clash of the Titans.
+ Means for an End: “British writer M. John Harrison won the Booker Prize for fiction on late Monday for ‘The End of Everything,’ a satirical dystopian novel whose themes of ‘catastrophe and apocalypse’ chime with our uneasy times. It’s the first work of science fiction to take the prestigious $67,000 literary award.”
+ Blazing Hazing: Ohio State University investigating fraternity after video appears to show two people on fire. What a total burn.
+ Youth Movement! With So Much New Blood in the Senate, the Average Age Is Falling… To 63.
