Silvio Contessi

'Something's happened': Australians under 50 developing cancer at 'alarming' rates Australians aged in their 30s and 40s are experiencing unprecedented and in some cases world-leading rates of 10 different types of cancer — and scientists are desperate to understand why.

Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists

#EconSky

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Trump’s China trade war a ‘boon’ for Brazil but sends US farmers reeling Latin America’s largest economy is poised to extend its lead as China’s top food supplier

Trump’s China trade war a ‘boon’ for Brazil but sends US farmers reeling

https://www.ft.com/content/3b101afd-b51c-4d64-ba2f-45ad4590e819

Elon Musk as a New Monetarist

honestly the rocket exploding looks pretty sick

Australian blood donor who saved millions of babies thanks to rare antibody dies at age 88 | CBC News James Harrison, who according to the Australian Red Cross was the world's most prolific blood and plasma donor, has died at age 88.

What a country should be known for

www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

!!!

Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December.

Tesla’s CEO was not in the office.

In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.

Wooo

Ozzie unis... the gift that keeps on (not) giving

How has the risk of dying from cancer changed in the United States? To understand this, we can look at national cancer death rates in the United States. The gray line shows the crude rate, which is the rate of deaths from cancer per 100,000 people. It has risen between 1950 and 1990 and has fallen slightly since then. However, cancer death rates rise sharply with age, and the age of the US population has increased since 1950, so we would expect cancer death rates to rise for that reason alone. What if we adjust for the increased age of the US population? The red line, the age-standardized rate, shows this. It shows the cancer death rate if the age structure of the US population was held constant throughout. This shows a slight rise until 1990 and then a significant decline; rates have fallen by one-third. This means Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990. This comes from several factors: better screening and earlier diagnosis, medical advances in cancer treatments, and public health efforts to reduce risk factors like smoking and exposure to carcinogens.

Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990

Everybody Loves FRED: How America Fell for a Data Tool From Facebook political debates to college classrooms, the St. Louis Fed’s data tool has gained a major following.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

Weak Australian economic growth hits dollar Public spending offsets subdued consumer demand in ‘two-speed’ economy

Weak Australian economic growth hits dollar

https://www.ft.com/content/313e7188-14c3-4097-ac2a-6a568e01d9af

The push back in the press against the new two boards structure for the RBA governance is... interesting...

FIRN Annual Conference in Port Douglas: 'Ancora Imparo' (Monash) team, including PhD students and alumni

Follia

@ FIRN annual meeting

Insanity doesn't begin to describe it

International students unlikely to be capped from start of next year as Labor fails to win Coalition support The Coalition has announced it will oppose the government's bill to limit the number of international students able to enrol from next year, just weeks out from when the caps were meant to come into f...

And here i find myself disappointed to read that the caps may not be implemented... (hint: my course went from 220 to 420 students and my life was way better at 220). That sad, insanity all the way, Australia, hey

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Higher education and productivity - Speech Chair Danielle Wood presented to the National Conference on University Governance.

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Productivity Commission calls on universities to improve teaching quality

www.pc.gov.au/media-speech...