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China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

Autozulieferer im Umbruch

Die deutsche Autoindustrie steht unter Druck. Wir werfen daher einen Blick in die Zulieferindustrie. @philippasigl.bsky.social spricht mit Tobias Braun, CFO von Benteler, über den Standort Deutschland und die Zukunft der Branche.

Eine neue Folge Die Geldfrage

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So bottom line: the risk for Germany is that if it does not move to shore up car demand, it will face a much higher bill for lost tax receipts, bailouts, unemployment schemes and retraining in a year or two.

The choice here for Berlin is pay now — or pay much more later.

6/

Memo for Labour: globalisation is good, actually This government is in many ways the party returned to its factory settings. But the product was faulty in the first place

1/10
While I agree with much of what Stephen Bush argues here, I think this claim is overly simplistic: "This shouldn’t need saying in 2025 but markets and globalisation are good."
www.ft.com/content/2fa3...

Me when my paper's policy implications still haven't been implemented one year into into the peer review process.

There have been times when there has been more death and destruction, but has there ever been a time since WWII when the public sphere was so degraded?

Izzy Bonga - Basketballgott.

I was happy to see the Franco-German economic counsellors pick up our idea in their latest set of notes for the Chancellor and President Macron.

I can only hope they act on it soon - the prospect of 9 million in Chinese car exports a year, w imports at 1 million, is as big a deal as it sounds.

7/7

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics.

Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.

If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

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every new draft i write
feels like betrayal
to the simplicity of my first idea
which was wrong
but pure

☕️ In die "Die Geldfrage" sprechen @philippasigl.bsky.social und @sara-schulte.bsky.social zu #Kaffee, #Klima und #Preisen.

Warum Kaffee teurer wird, wie der #Klimawandel die Produktion beeinflusst und wer am Ende von höheren Preisen profitiert, erfahrt ihr hier. ⬇️
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BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

“China’s dramatic surge of investment into the ’new three‘—EVs, batteries, and solar—is expected to crush oil demand by 5M barrels/day by 2030. That cheaper green tech is now enabling 100+ countries to break free from … imported hydrocarbons towards the sunlit uplands of electric self-sufficiency.”

Faszinierend, mit welcher Dünnhäutigkeit die FAZ auf die berechtigte Kritik von Brosius-Gersdorf reagiert - und mit welcher Selbstgerechtigkeit da (bisher ausschließlich von Männern) nochmals nachgetreten wird.

1/15 The Trump administration says it wants to bring manufacturing back to America and reindustrialize the US. But their trade policy does this by making foreign competition more expensive, not by helping American manufacturers compete with AI-powered production elsewhere.

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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

The 401(k) heist proceeds precisely as @cedricdurand.bsky.social and I expected.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

chart: capital expenditures, quarterly shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/

The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

I'm tired of analysts saying the tariffs haven't shown up in the data. It's not shown up in the *aggregate CPI*, but it's certainly shown up categories of CPI, PPI. And it's shown up in "big data" treatments, see Cavallo et al. for data through JULY 26:
www.pricinglab.org/files/Tracki... #econsky

Something that deserves a bit more frequent mention in the debate about the Germany economy, me thinks

Why are young adults in the English-speaking world so unhappy? Society sold the dream of home ownership — then cruelly snatched it away

Mental health and the decline of social status stability/upward mobility (by the proxy of house ownership) among young people.

The very rich live in a world where no one ever says to them: "Jar Jar Binks is a really terrible idea!"

Yay! @madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, and my piece on 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 is out in @worldpolitics.bsky.social!

Find it here: muse.jhu.edu/article/964464

Greek debt/GDP ratio is now between 153-158%. Lower than 207% (in 2020), still higher than 120% (in 2010, when *this* debt level triggered panic). If it is falling it is because of inflation, balanced budgets (ie spending cuts), continued austerity and at a cost of 10% persistent unemployment.

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