The EPA is becoming the Environmental Protection Agency again. It has cancelled the rule that Republicans invented to exclude most medical studies from consideration for EPA decisions. That rule converted the EPA into the Environmental Poisoning Agency.

It took 80 years for the whole of The Man Who Lived Underground, by Richard Wright, to be published this year.

Tesla cars collect lots of data for the company, including the precise trajectory of movement of the car. Henceforth, all the data for Tesla cars in China will be at the tentacletips of the Chinese state.

Tesla will offer the misleading response that it is legally required to store data collected from cars in China in servers in China that the state can easily browse through. That is true, but it evades the issue. The wrong is that the car collects that data in the first place.

Non-vaccinated Americans should not assume they are safe from Covid-19 simply because many of the other Americans they encounter are vaccinated. The problem is that the fraction that are vaccinated is insufficient to reach herd immunity; the virus still circulates and you can still catch it. And in some regions, it is even less.

Indeed, vaccinated individuals can catch the disease and spread it, and may not experience any symptoms. This is less likely for vaccinated individuals than for non-vaccinated, but the chance is not zero.

A secretive and mysterious PR campaign tried to hire influencers to denigrate the Pfizer vaccine. The company whose name was on the offer may not exist at all, but the people listed as involved had internet ties to Russia.

Whether this campaign had anything to do with Russia is not clear.