David Introcaso

Jul 24, 2024 | ragazzo.substack.com | Jack Murtagh |Ben Orlin |Georgina Elliott |David Introcaso

Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Jack Murtagh, Scientific American“Most players agree that to stay competitive at the top levels of poker they must use a blend of game theory’s optimal and exploitative play. Optimal is more defensive, whereas exploitative is more offensive.

Jul 15, 2024 | harvardpublichealth.org | David Introcaso

Written by David Introcaso Published July 15, 2024 Read Time 7 min Building climate resilience—an ability to adapt to climate disasters—defines the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ response to the climate crisis. The stated purpose of HHS’s Climate Action Plan is “to enhance resilience and adaptation to climate change throughout the activities of HHS.” The department’s primary climate-related programmatic effort is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Building...

May 19, 2024 | statnews.com | David Introcaso

In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the world’s most powerful health care agency — responsible for overseeing the largest industry in the world’s largest economy — offered a pretend proposal for regulating health care’s massive carbon footprint of 550 million metric tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e), or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

May 19, 2024 | everand.com | David Introcaso

HHS's proposal for addressing the climate crisis serves as an example of what historian and philosopher Hannah Arendt defined as the "banality of evil."In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the world’s most powerful health care agency — responsible for overseeing the largest of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e), or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. HHS is largely responsible for the health care industry’s carbon pollution because the federal government is the .

Mar 2, 2024 | thehill.com | David Introcaso

Hospitals account for a significant amount of health care’s enormous 550 million metric ton greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint. That is largely because hospitals are remarkably energy inefficient. In 2023, just 37 — substantially less than 1 percent — were Energy Star certified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Scope 1 and 2 energy efficiency.