The contract was modern solution - we depend on strangers for life’s necessities A caricature of self-sufficient Homo economicus obscures this in Adam Smith’s diagnosis. We have to trade - neither our labour nor our endowment can supply us with all we need

https://aeon.co/essays/give-and-take-how-gift-giving-forges-society-and-ourselves

Exchanges that appeared voluntary were also, at some level, obligatory. A loan had to be repaid, an invitation reciprocated, a kindness outdone (‘The round of drinks,’ Mauss observed, in W D Halls’s translation, ‘is ever dearer and larger in size’).

https://aeon.co/essays/give-and-take-how-gift-giving-forges-society-and-ourselves

challenging -
to write plainly -
words run away -
with themselves -
still aims -
awakening -
ideas celebrating -
afford-dancing -
with mind -
enable-meants -
plane writing -
many-folds -
into unfinity of -
spaces -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

mhm -
trump-petites -
did to elections -
what wwe -
did to martial arts -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

fascinating -
myself -
in - play -
uncertain that -
the playing -
is play -
and what is more real -
than that -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

@SteveKornacki -
illuminates -
a virtuosity -
enacting a vision -
of a transparency -
a free society -
of people -
could enact -
ways to care -
protect -
enable -
a flourishing of -
trust in our -
social response-abilities -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

from the old testament to Adam Smith economics has always been about the investigation of the mystery of value

https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2581861

In “The United States of Amnesia,” to quote Gore Vidal, the corporate press and the ruling class create fictional feel-good personas for candidates, treat all political campaigns as if it is a day at the races

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politicians-who-destroyed-our

11/8/2022 - Full Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/11/1182022-full-moon.html

lately -
been pondering -
the economic -
marketing-entertainment -
complex -

a gravity funnel -
addiction to -
audience share -
of a ponzi -
meme -
tech-tonic -
call-lapse -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

researchers used mRNA technology to develop an influenza vaccine that targets four proteins that tend to change little across viral strains.
the group describes their approach to developing new kind of flu vaccine and how well it has worked in test mice

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-flu-vaccine-mrna-viral-proteins.html

increasing body of archaeological and genomic evidence has hinted to a complex settlement process -especially true for South America, unexpected ancestral signals raised perplexing scenarios for early migrations into different regions of the continent

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ancient-dna-analysis-early-peopling.html

"Since there are so many different antibiotics in the sewage sludge, we were surprised to find that the majority of antibacterial activity of the sludge could be directly linked to triclosan alone,"

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-antibiotic-resistance-linked-household-products.html

Egg whites when freeze-dried & heated to 900 C without oxygen—create a structure of interconnected strands of carbon fibers and sheets of graphene. the resulting material can remove salt and microplastics from seawater with 98% and 99% efficiency

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-egg-whites-material-capable-filtering.html

Wow - just how ubiquitous is this sort of thing

https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817

gut microbiota has emerged as a key conduit for brain processes, mood and behavior, developing microbiota-targeted approaches that can benefit mental health and brain function

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01817-y

A Eulogy to Truth – Long Live Honesty

http://www.johnverdon.com/2021/05/a-eulogy-to-truth-long-live-honesty.html

wow -
the slippery slope -
is slippery -
#muskier than -
appearances -
#unMaker -
#rentSeeker
#flushing -
it all away -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

local news -
is rife -
with shadows -
and so -
necessary -
for civil -
i-nations -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

money is -
the account of -
transubstantiation of -
social relating-ships -
into matter -
through magical reasoning -
of number-in-ratios -
otherwise -
accounting -
with account-abilities -
socially distributed -
living ledgers -
meaning by number -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry