Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 20th/21st July 2024
Joe Biden and the Common Knowledge Game by Ben Hunt
“The dynamics of common knowledge formation are called the common knowledge game. Like all games it has rules. Like all games it has an equilibrium, which is a ten-dollar word that means it has a stopping point. Maybe not an end but a stopping point. Let me review those rules so you can see why I say the stopping point for this chapter in the common knowledge game we call American politics is the collapse of the 2024 Biden/Harris campaign…”
New £7bn National Wealth Fund to start green investment ‘immediately’ by Jim Pickard, Michael O’Dwyer and Rachel Millard
“Ministers and investors have long lamented that disparate pots of public funding in various government departments and arm’s length bodies make the UK’s investment landscape more difficult for private investors to navigate than in other countries. British Business Bank chief executive Louis Taylor said he expected the National Wealth Fund would “create a single coherent governmental offer for businesses and a compelling proposition for investors.…”
Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet? by Andy Extance
“Hashemi’s group makes organoids from a person’s own cells. The scientists then integrate them with chips that monitor how tiny electrical currents in the cells change as the researchers wash the organoids with a solution of a drug. The fluctuations relate to the levels of histamine and serotonin. ‘We think those chemical signals can give an indication of whether the drug is going to be effective,’ Hashemi tells Chemistry World. She hopes that her team’s measurements will help identify differences between people, showing ‘which drugs they’re going to respond to, which combinations, which doses’.…”
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