1. An OECD report on the growing disjunct between education and employment, The State of Global Teenage Career Preparation https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-state-of-global-teenage-career-preparation_d5f8e3f2-en.html PDF below as well.

This report sets out key findings from PISA as they relate to teenage career development. The report shows that across OECD countries, students are now expressing very high levels of career uncertainty and confusion. Job expectations have changed little since 2000 and bear little relationship to actual patterns of labour market demand, including in working areas of high strategic importance. The education plans of students moreover are more strongly shaped by social background than by academic performance.

2. Here’s an interview from Engelsberg Ideas with my second favourite Yorkshirewoman, Fiona Hill, Fiona Hill on Donald Trump’s nuclear nightmares https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/in-conversation-with-fiona-hill-on-donald-trumps-nuclear-nightmares/

But in the case of Russia in Ukraine, I think we’re pretty certain that Vladimir Putin was contemplating the use of tactical nuclear weapons in 2022, when the tide was turned against the Russian military, when they were pinned down on the ground in the Kherson region and around the Dnipro River. We’ll all recall that there was analysis and all kinds of discussions at the time about whether Putin was willing to detonate a small-yield tactical nuclear weapon in that context. He wanted to use it as a game changer on the battlefield, and he amped up the rhetoric. That is, I think, very important.

3. Here’s an interview from the DEEP YouTube channel with Carne Ross, the founder of Independent Diplomat, about the Iraq War and his reasons for resigning from the UK Foreign Office https://youtu.be/AYsVZZ_Q4s0

4. The Camtree Digital Library’s collection on Exploratory Action Research can be found here https://library.camtree.org/communities/dc5e3ea9-886b-43e0-9784-b78b4740ac6f and there’s lots more to explore here https://library.camtree.org/home

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5. And, finally, a piece from The New York Times that confirms what I’ve always thought (hoped?) about coffee, That Cup of Coffee May Have a Longer-Term Perk https://tinyurl.com/4c6rzdfk

The researchers found a correlation between how much caffeine the women typically drank (which was mostly from coffee) when they were between 45 and 60 years old and their likelihood of healthy aging. After adjusting for other factors that could affect aging, such as their overall diet, how much they exercised and whether they smoked, those who consumed the most caffeine (equivalent to nearly seven eight-ounce cups of coffee per day) had odds of healthy aging that were 13 percent higher than those who consumed the least caffeine (equivalent to less than one cup per day).