* “The Taiwan Catastrophe: What America—and the World—Would Lose If China Took the Island?” Spoiler: it would be bad. But maybe China’s military isn’t up to taking Taiwan. There’s a lot of “maybe” out there.

* A climate tipping point for the Atlantic ocean.

* “Will Democrats Ever Embrace Charter Schools Again? The data shows that independently run public schools perform better than conventional ones, yet Biden has been conspicuously silent” (bloomberg, $). Weird that the party putatively in favor of helping the poor and disadvantaged has aligned against an important policy that will disproportionately help the poor and disadvantaged.

* “Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t Land?” They don’t? The argument is that he’s been unhinged for a decade or more, which is at least plausible, if one accepts the premise.

* “Why the Most Educated People in America Fall for Anti-Semitic Lies.” Odd to me, certainly, though “odd to me” may be the theme of the links in this pots. Many luxury beliefs of the luxury class seem odd to me.

* “Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation.”

* How Brian Potter writes posts for Construction Physics.

* “How Many Attack Submarines Does the U.S. Navy Need?” Short answer: a lot more than it has.

* Study links fermented foods with brain growth.

* “The Democrats’ Education Problem: It’s not too late to fix it.” Basically consistent with my views.

* “Why you, personally, should want a larger population.” To get there, we need to build a lot more housing.

* “How to Speedrun a New Drug Application.” Pity that the company described didn’t succeed.

* “Reactions to ‘Please be dying, but not too quickly’ and what it’s like for patients.”