Tue. 04/20 - The New Roaring 20s? An Economist & Epidemiologist Weigh In
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- Cool Stuff Ride Home
- Published
- Tue 20 Apr 2021
- Episode Link
- https://chrt.fm/track/G481GD/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/0e49624f-553e-45fd-be6e-44b9fa5d0d58/Tuesday2C20April20202C202021Edit20120-2043A203A212C202.4320PM.mp3
Will this decade be another “Roaring 20s?” A social epidemiologist and a Nobel Prize-winning economist weigh in. How many T-Rexes roamed the land throughout their time on Earth? A team of paleontologists did the math. And scientists have created the whitest paint ever, which could make a sizable difference in the climate crisis.
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Links:
Looking Back at the First Roaring Twenties (NY Times)
Epidemiologist looks to the past to predict second post-pandemic 'roaring 20s' (The Guardian)
How many T. rex ever existed? Calculation of dinosaur's abundance offers an answer (Nature)
Enough T-Rexes to eat us all (Christopher Mims, Twitter)
'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight (BBC)
Researchers Created the Whitest White Paint Ever (Earther)
Ted Lasso season two trailer (AppleTV, Twitter)
Kottke.Org
Jackson Bird on Twitter
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