Today’s Iran war news: The situation is particularly unsettled, so we will limit ourselves to bigger issues.
Read more...Part the First: Back to the Past in Science and Medicine. The future of basic science in the United States looks grim for everyone from the aspiring graduate student to the full professor who has met her potential and has several graduate students, postdocs, and technicians working in her laboratory. The precipitous and arbitrary Big […]
Read more...Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.
Read more...Conor here: Perhaps what the authors call “the holy grail of environmental policy” (economic growth with less emissions) needs a rethink. Sooner rather than later they’ll have no choice as global warming will do the job if conflicts don’t, and degrowth will be imposed on us one way or another. The European Central Bank, for […]
Read more...R. C. J. Cranstoun spoke with Michael Hudson on debt, rentierism, and the geopolitical rift around sanctions, energy, and the dollar system
Read more...Yet more on why you should hate data centers.
Read more...Fox News brands the majority of Americans as official enemies, echoing extra-legal ““domestic terrorism organizations” in Trump’s NSPM-7.
Read more...It is clear that in much of the so-called developed world, food has largely lost its meaning beyond nourishment. Julian Baggini has written about this, ten years ago in The Virtues of the Table, which is especially useful in considering how and why we eat. More recently Baggini has expanded his range in How the […]
Read more...Swamp creature Tony Blair emerges to tell the suffering public that they should accept even more hardship because AI.
Read more...A new analysis of the impact of the Iran war on the energy and economic prospects for Europe has a whistling-pas-the-graveyard feel.
Read more...Moneyed interests are linking support of two bête noires, coal and data centers, to better shove them down voters’ throats
Read more...Democrats can’t face that they don’t have a message because having one with broad appeal would alienate too many powerful factions.
Read more...Intense rains, extreme heat, and unstoppable pests are wiping out crops and farmers’ livelihoods as climate change scrambles the weather.
Read more...BRICS members have a lot to teach each other, and the advanced world, about waste reuse.
Read more...AI promises efficiency in offices but its insatiable power needs are making life more costly for communities at large.
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