The Ukraine Crisis Is a Classic “Security Dilemma”
Some well-meaning but going-nowhere peace ideas for Ukraine.
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Why Climate Science Shouldn’t Forget to Factor in Brain Health
Scientists need to learn more about climate change’s negative impact on the nervous system in order to mitigate it.
Read more...Russia Sitrep of Sorts
Yet again reading the Russia/Ukraine tea leaves.
Read more...Wind, Snow, Brutal Cold: Arctic Front Barrels Eastward from Plains
Life-threatening cold, with wind chills and white-out conditions, will sweep through many areas.
Read more...The Weather Nightmare Before Christmas
A sprawling cold wave and blizzard will bring some of the nation’s most dangerous and disruptive pre-holiday weather in recent decades.
Read more...Bloomberg Describes Europe’s Severe and Sustained Energy Crisis Due to Loss of Russian Gas
Bloomberg is countering the prevaiing cheery narrative that Europe can muddle through its ongoing energy crunch.
Read more...Drought in the United States: A Primer and Review of 2022 (with some Action Items)
Enough background information so that you, readers, can interpret the news on drought — especially in the Southwest — and apply your critical thinking skills
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses the Future of Europe and Global Restructuring
Michael Hudson describes how the war with Russia is changing the economic and political order, and not to the advantage of Europe and the US.
Read more...Arctic Report Card 2022: The Arctic Is Getting Rainier and Seasons Are Shifting, with Broad Disturbances for People, Ecosystems and Wildlife
An update on the impact of global warming in the Arctic.
Read more...Hungary Asks the War Questions and Probes Merkel’s Minsk Deception
On Merkel’s and Germany’s posture toward the war in Ukraine and Russia generally.
Read more...Needed Global Financial Reforms Foregone Yet Again
The pathologies that produced the financial crisis are still circulating.
Read more...The Economic Consequences of War
On the economic effects of wars, drawing on a novel database of nearly 400 wars over the past two centuries.
Read more...Estimating the True Cost of War: The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine (2014-2019)
A new approach for analyzing the economic cost of war finds the impact on Donetsk, even before the SMO, is very high.
Read more...Death of an Elder Raises Uncomfortable Questions About Adequacy of Care
Some anecdotes on not-great care for the aged.
Read more...Russia’s General Patience and the Pause That Refreshes
Taking stock of the damage done by Russia’s continuing missile attacks and what that means for the war in Ukraine.
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