VIDEO: Toxicologist Jamie Seymour runs a facility studying Australia's deadliest marine animals in a bid to understand them and keep people safe. His team milks sea creatures of their venom to create life-saving antivenoms.

Un habitant sur 74 est millionnaire à Paris et en Île-de-France - Le Parisien leparisien.fr/economie/un-ha…

To reduce the negative effects of hyperglobalization, Western politicians could tax the 1% and redistribute or slow down the growth of the Chinas of the world. In the end, they chose the second option, says Branko Milanovic in this interview for Partizán:
youtu.be/rzsVcDYZ0hk?si…

Democracy Index 2023

1. Norway🇳🇴
2. New Zealand🇳🇿
3. Iceland🇮🇸
4. Sweden🇸🇪
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This is from my review of Samuel Moyn's excellent 'Not Enough'.
branko2f7.substack.com/p/from-welfare…

Issue 32: What are men for? | Coming soon.

The share of the two largest economies (China and the US) in total world output is greater today that it has been in the past 60 years. (All in PPP terms.)

“The number of billionaires almost tripled in the 2010s & has continued to rise over the past 4 years, because the value of their assets – mostly shares and property – has been swelled by the policies pursued by central banks during the health emergency”
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

« L’Asie devient vieille avant d’être riche » (Le Monde) lemonde.fr/economie/artic…

Sauf que ce qui est gagné d'un côté par le 'braconnage' sur les terres lepénistes est perdu de l'autre, avec la Bretagne, les Pyrénées-atlantiques et l'ouest du Massif central allant chez Bayrou, et un axe Pays de la Loire-Poitou-Limousin chez Royal.

On constate un important réalignement de structure de l'électorat UMP entre 2002 et 2007, avec un déplacement de l'électorat de droite vers l'Est, et vers les zones de force du FN : Alsace, bassin méditerranéen, vallée de la Garonne, nord-est industriel, pourtour francilien.

Le fascisme est l'ennemi héréditaire de toute pensée, quelle qu'elle soit.

Vladimir Jankélévitch

Today we have everything we need to prevent people getting infected with HIV.

So how can it be that 4,000 adolescent girls and young women acquire HIV every week?

Injustice. Stigma. Discrimination.

'The seven days between Friday, April 19, and Thursday, April 25, saw a succession of worker victories that was almost breathtaking in its scope.'

prospect.org/labor/2024-04-…

Inequality bands: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America | CEPR cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

The reduction of child mortality is one of the big achievements of our time.

But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening. So, for my new article, I turned things around.

👇This is the main chart and takeaway.

Here is the article: ourworldindata.org/children-saved…

Ils ont connu l’ #Europe sans la #démocratie et sans la #liberté . Voici leur message pour la prochaine génération.

#UtilisezVotreVoix #électionseuropéennes #européennes2024

Jeremy M. Weinstein named dean of Harvard Kennedy School — Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Our society has decided to accept enormous inequality but it doesn't have to. If we finally reject neoliberal doctrines and structure society in a way that takes all people and their right to live a full life into account—freer to live up to their potential—we would be better…