Literary critics exclude genre fiction and other genres of fiction from praise and reviews.

Though oddly how the most US novel, Moby Dick, favored by literary critics for well over 100 years is genre fiction - the adventure novel genre.

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The complex tax system does produce economic growth. It is a drain on productivity.

Have not heard the Einstein one.

Here is one which may be an informative read. It's much like the British Navy's discovery that vitamin C prevented scurvy. I heard this Japanese navy history and the science battle behind it on a radio documentary.

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Eating Too Much Rice Nearly Crippled the Japanese Navy
November 1, 2020

Here’s what you need to remember: Sixteen per cent of all disease and injury in the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1882 stemmed from this one sickness. Beriberi.

In August 1882 in Incheon Bay near Seoul, four Japanese warships were locked in a tense stand-off with two Chinese warships that had brought troops to quell a revolt on the Korean peninsula.

On paper, the Japanese flotilla outnumbered the Chinese, but the hulls of the Japanese ships hid a deadly secret. Less than half of their crews could man their stations. ...

What will the commercial businesses do?

The law should be changed so that GM after a 50 person layoff in a 12 month period cannot apply for H1B or other visa programs for 5 years and cannot extend any existing H1B visa employees.

Art, singing, music and other creative ares may help us live a better longer healthier life.

Don't need another "news" article with its thinly veiled call to taxpayer "fund the arts" advertisement.

Conjecture: There is a decline in the number of lifelong patrons willing to fund opera, classical music, museums and other fine arts.

Conjecture 2: The boomer generation has kept tens of thousands of world-class art pieces in private inaccessible collections for decades, mainly as an investment and now the next generation needs to sell them for cash, find a museum willing to display and take on the cost of curation and insurance risk that art.

Stop giving the distractions and news to divide people a mention.

The first headline and policy issue should be "How to make South Korea a livable country, where people start families in their early 20s, most families stay together for decades, and where parents can raise their own children without working at the office + home for 90 hours a week?"

Decades of ignoring 50% of the population and paying/handouts to the other half the population have not increased family formation or reduced the number of childless women.

Ignoring for decades that there is no equality if men have by law 18 months of forced labor to server in the military while women have no required by law national service of any kind (building roads, cutting trees, working on a farm 12 hours a day outside). Women do not have by law to go into the military, they can do civil labor jobs outside of the cities, building roads, farming, logging, and building.

Need to see the grade point averages by degree, and admission type to see how legacy admissions get graded versus students who are not legacy admissions.

A legacy admission would be the daughter or son of a person who attended Harvard, usually from a very wealthy family.

The laws should be changed so that a company laying off or firing more than 50 persons in a rolling 12 month period cannot apply for H1B or other visa based workers and cannot get existing visas extended for its current workers.

Is there any way to complain about this headline driven research?

At some point, there has to be a minimum standard for research output and minimum standard to be quoted in the news for these.

Or research which has dozens of citations of editorials, letters to the editor or scientifically unsound research (self reported surveys, sample size of 5 people, and other faulty methods).

The Gates Foundation has a decade long push for gender equality and only for women and girls.

It's not gender equality if the Gates Foundation pushes repeatedly for programs to help only woman and girls without programs for specifically for boys and men.

A generic "we have programs for Women, Girls, and others" approach treats men and boys as others and is not gender equality.

It's been a decade of of the Gates Foundation not even mentioning the worldwide systemic issues of forced labor for men, forced military labor (and death) and systemic child labor for boys in Africa metals mining.

So is the Gates Foundation for gender equality for all or only selective equality only when it benefits women and girls?

The tired "fixing women's issues helps men" is trickle down equality and fails for the same reason that "trickle down economics" failed.

The "make your own nonprofit, organize and lobby for your own programs" fails since the US has spent hundreds of millions on decades of dedicated government / taxpayer funded programs specifically for women and girls and little or none of government funded programs specifically for men and boys.

It is not news when an attorney for Person X is attacking the opposing person in court.

That is what the attorney is paid to do.

News reports treating readers like 3 year olds with the "Sally was mad at Susan on the playground and said big bad words" reporting.

If it's a full vehicle that is banned, when will they ban all the connected components so that your Ford F150's transmission computer module does not get taken over by a remote attacker?

Flock cameras, cars reporting telemetry, and other tracking are allowing mass tracking of government vehicles throughout the country,

Funny how a well know journal like Nature does not lead with more important to the planet and bigger pollution issues like getting India, Viet Nam, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc, etc. to stop dumping tens of millions of pounds of plastic trash in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Cutting down the entry level computer jobs, lowering wages, and driving new and future graduates out of the field will turn Computer Science jobs into a unviable college degree.

A better question to ask is: What college degrees given a $100.000 4 year degree cost can generate enough income to payback the college degree cost in 6 years after costs for a basic OK apartment, small car, budget food, taxes and utilities are taken out?

A solution to this is to limit importing workers on a H1B or other visa basis for 5 years for a company if the company has laid off, severed more than 50 workers in a rolling 12 month period. Separate 50 or more workers in a 12 month period, no H1B or other visas for 5 years for the company, parent company, subsidiary, ...