Interesting links: Homelessness and housing, mental illness treatment, technology grants, and more
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*?The NYT notices how poorly L.A.’s Prop HHH went . We talked about?some of its problems back in 2017 ; writing the proposals themselves was good, but, at the same time, it was hard not to recognize the real-world challenges in L.A.’s vetocracy (a portmanteau not original to me, alas). You can’t fix homelessness or housing problems without comprehensive zoning reform, and ideally zoning reform that?eliminates the charade of “community input .” Whatever value “community input” may once have had, it’s morphed into a system of “just say no” that exacerbates the housing crisis and lets a small number of unrepresentative persons block almost anything from happening, anywhere.
* Strangely, at least to my eyes, the Department of State (DoS) is offering $250,000 in Building Back Better (BBB) funding to…Canada? This is a real grant opportunity,?listed in grants.gov . The grant program purpose is to “promote sustainable and inclusive economic recovery that strengthen the middle class, with a focus on women, people of color and Indigenous peoples, including in the Arctic.” Most DoS RFPs focus on developing countries in Africa, the Middle East, and so on—not Canada, which is not a country that I think of when I think of countries that need U.S. foreign aid.?Another RFP ?is designed for “Advancing Diversity and Inclusion” in Canada, which, relative to many countries, doesn’t strike me as bad at diversity or inclusion. The total grant amounts are low, but my own curiosity factor is high. Does Canada run programs to promote economic recovery in the United States? Does Canada worry about us? Should they?
*?Why don’t doctors study the clitoris ? From the NYT. I assume nurses and physicians assistants don’t either, which is a peculiar omission for medicine, since medicine is supposed to be the study of the body, and the ability to heal it, too.
*?Human challenge trials are a good idea . Much greater freedom in this area is laso a good idea.
*?Actual mental illness is not a meme . This is something many of our mental health and substance abuse service clients likely already understand, but there’s a media and social media universe that is pretty removed from the actual treatment provision.
*?Chips and China .
*?Taiwan prepares to be invaded . Somehow, this does not seem like great news.
*?An overview of concrete forming technology . Concrete is in almost all infrastructure and is thus of high importance; most people, myself included, overlook it most of the time.
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* “The End of Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed :’ Financial and bureaucratic barriers in the United States mean that the next generation of Covid vaccines may well be designed here, but used elsewhere.” Important news that isn’t getting the attention it should.
*?New meth treatments are possible . I’m not sure how optimistic I am, given that opioid treatments are useful but hardly a panacea, but something is still better than what we have now, which is “nothing.” Some of our substance-abuse treatment clients have been seeing an uptick in the use of Naltrexone and related medications for alcoholism. We’ve also not exhausted the possible uses of monoclonal antibodies (the proposed meth treatment is a monoclonal antibody), which is also important and notable.
*?Illiberal values .
*?More on loneliness . Consider weaving ideas about loneliness into your proposals.
*?Despite all the blah blah blah you read about “clean” energy , world coal use reached a new high in 2022. Solar, wind, batteries, and all these things are good—we’ve written many proposals to get projects in those fields funded—but the first two are intermittent and the last only stores power. There is currently no good alternative to nuclear power; failure to focus on nuclear means we’e going to burn more coal and emit more methane.
*?Why is progress in biology so slow? ?One of these really important questions, which seldom dominate the news.
* “Income inequality has been falling for a while?now .” In this reading of the data, anyway.
* “The Truth about Demographic Decline :” most people want more kids than they feel they can afford to have. This is another instance of exclusionary American housing policy creating scarcity in?many?domains, including this one.