Favorites November 27th 2021

Not a ton of stuff tonight.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Yes. Building more vaccine manufacturing capacity is the key. This is more important than any other Covid measure right now.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm

The only thing that seems clear from the new variant news - and most of it remains uncertain, tbd - is that we need to be investing massively in vaccine production capacity. Having most of the world unvaxed creates too big a breeding ground for new variants. And that’s setting…

mRNA vaccines are going to be important going forward, and beyond just Covid. The White House announced a goal of producing a billion doses next year, I think we should aim higher, in our total mRNA production capacity, 10 billion doses!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Curing Type 1 diabetes would be nice.

nytimes.comA Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked.A new treatment using stem cells that produce insulin has surprised experts and given them hope for the 1.5 million Americans living with the disease.

Although that's not to diminish other positive developments in medicine.

Paul Musgrave 🦃🥧🍠 @profmusgrave

IT'S HERE: the authoritative account of how Pepsi didn't become the world's sixth-largest navy! You've probably encountered this Internet brainworm about how Pepsi traded soda for Soviet submarines, but you never knew you needed to know the full story!

foreignpolicy.comThe Doomed Voyage of Pepsi’s Soviet NavyA three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.

If you've ever heard the factoid about Pepsi aquiring a small navy, this article will fill you in with all the weird details.

Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh

How the composition of wealth changes considering people of increasing net worth. Initially dominated by primary residence, moving to business equity.

I guess this is what I would expect, but it's interesting to see the exact figures.

San Francisco, Today

I really appreciate the gold details throughout SF City Hall.