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Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 11 Oct 22
Dear EDRM community, The phrase of the week is significant. Hurricane Ian, with over 100 souls lost, may hit $74B in damage. In Ukraine, a bridge between Russia and Ukraine was damaged, and Russia shelled apartments in Kiev. Two...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 4 Oct 22
Dear EDRM community, The phrase of the week is communication breakdown. A federal judge was swatted on the eve of trial. As we move to a chronic endemic COVID-19 experience, we still must outpace it, and reckon with its...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 27 Sept 22
Dear EDRM community, The word of the week is mobilize. Ripping a page out of a science fiction novel, NASA will crash a space ship into an asteroid to change its orbit as part of a planetary...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 20 Sept 22
Dear EDRM Community, The word of the week is palpable. As HM Queen Elizabeth was laid to rest, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Pakistan are under water, with wildfire smoke drifting east in the US. Lupus is...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 13 Sept 22
Dear EDRM Community, The phrase of the week is turning point. HM Queen Elizabeth II passed, and King Charles III ascended to the throne. The Queen’s seventy years of stewardship are being celebrated and her public’s grief...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 6 Sept 22
Dear EDRM Community, The phrase of the week is full contact. Rolling blackouts due to wildfires and energy shortages due to pipelines being closed have households measuring electric use granularly. (HT @EllenAMilligan). A special master will be appointed to...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 30 Aug 22
Dear EDRM Community, The word of the week is swamped. Over a thousand souls have perished and tens of millions of Pakistani have been displaced by extreme flooding of biblical proportions with Mississippi preparing its residents to evacuate. As...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 23 Aug 22
Dear EDRM Community, The word of the week is unexpected. Plácido Domingo linked to criminal ring in Argentina according to prosecutors. Finnish Prime Minister danced in public, and after backlash, was supported across the globe by dancing women. Dr. Anthony...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 16 Aug 22
Dear EDRM Community, The word of the week is evolution. European river banks are looking like the shores of Lake Mead. Even while pandemic mitigations fade, a Broadway show institutes a “Masks only” show for those who do. Salmon Rushdie was...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 9 Aug 22
Dear EDRM Community, The word of the week is mainstream. Drop boxes are ok for babies, not ballots. Google offered a data science model with a bit of overlap for the EDRM community. Malcolm Gladwell disses on working from home. Even Death Valley flooded and...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 2 Aug 22
Dear EDRM Community, The word of the week is intensify. The first ship with grain is headed to Lebanon from Odesa. Wildfires and heatwaves abound as Uganda, St. Louis, Kentucky, and Las Vegas casinos have historic flooding. COVID...
Weekly Letter to Our Global Community – 26 Jul 22
Dear EDRM Community, The word of the week is understanding. Pope Francis, in Canada this week, asked forgiveness from indigenous people for the abuses of residential schools. Monkey pox is not only an STD, and is found in...