The Great People Shortage is coming -- and it's going to cause global economic chaos

Researchers predict that the world's population will decline in the next 40 years due to declining birth rates — and it will cause a massive shortage of workers. 

The Many Interwoven "Wars" -- A Rough Guide Through the Fog

We now have an embarrassment of "wars" of which paradoxically, Ukraine is perhaps of lesser strategic import -- Alastair Crooke writes.  

The question rather, is what will be the situation come January 2023 in Europe?

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/10/24/the-many-interwoven-wars-a-rough-guide-through-the-fog/

Most US professors are trained at same few elite universities

Just 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members to institutions across the country between 2011 and 2020. No historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) were among that 20%.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02998-w

Self-employment rate in 2020 by country

Source: OCDE and https://twitter.com/moreira_uallace/status/1579070158404227073

There is drug powerful enough to counter the effects of poverty

Medical Care Alone Won’t Halt the Spread of Diabetes, Scientists Say

Researchers who study Type 2 diabetes have reached a stark conclusion: There is no device or drug powerful enough to counter the effects of poverty, pollution, stress, a broken food system, cities that aren't walkable, and inequitable access to healthcare.