The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science
Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
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Three Mind-Blowing Indie Film Festivals That Show Actual Good Movies
For reader delectation, some promising indie film venues.
Read more...Coffee Break: The Attack on Scientists and Scientific Research Continues, Plus One Great Result on a Vaccine That Prevents Cancer
Part the First. Convergence and Consensus in Science, or and how to interpret scientific results in context. From Holden Thorp, the Editor-in-Chief of Science: Kathleen Hall Jamieson believes that scientists need to talk…about convergent evidence. “Unlike declarations that a consensus exists, a claim that convergent evidence exists honors science’s norms of critique and correction by […]
Read more...Washington Is Once Again Weaponising the IMF to Try to Reclaim Its “Back Yard”
Through its selective lending to struggling economies in Latin America, the IMF is helping Washington, once again, to reassert its strategic influence.
Read more...What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic?
Scientists are investigating how plastic additives and microplastics affect our bodies, and are worried about what they’ve learned so far
Read more...Federal Cuts Gut Food Banks as They Face Record Demand
An update on the worsening shortfalls at food banks as the impact of Federal cuts takes hold.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Unravelling – Part 2: Contagion & Containment
Mapping the contagion fever chart of how a Trump financial meltdown might unfold.
Read more...The Legal Limits of Trump’s Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities Like Philadelphia
Trump is escalating his campaign against sanctuary cities, and potentially even sanctuary churches. How might that play out?
Read more...Global South and Multilateral Financial Institutions: Where Does BRICS Stand?
Why BRICS has gotten barely anywhere on launching its own finanicial institutions and why that is unlikely to change soon if ever.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Unravelling – Part 1: Economic & Financial Furies
Why the Trump-induced economic and financial train wrecks will be more severe than most pundits seem to anticipate.
Read more...China Leapfrogging the U.S. in Tech Innovation
Some sobering facts on how China is outstripping the US in science and technology advances.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Yanis Varoufakis with Ann Pettifor on Economic and Political Paradigm Changes
The formidable trio of Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ann Pettifor assess the rapid changes in our economic system.
Read more...Suddenly Everything Stopped: Nationwide Blackouts in Spain and Portugal Underscore Extreme Fragility of Our Modern Systems
As the system comes back online and attention turns to the possible cause(s) of one of Europe’s largest peacetime blackouts, one thing is clear: without cash, the chaos would have been far worse.
Read more...Accident or Attack? Explosion at Iran’s Busiest Commercial Port Will Reverberate Beyond Bandar Abbas Either Way
Explosion likely to exacerbate existing problems with the Iranian economy, which include high inflation that is hitting food prices particularly hard and weak economic growth due to sanctions
Read more...The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) Run Time: 1h 55m
The Sunday Morning Movies presents: Death Rides a Horse (1969) A fine example of a Spaghetti Western in the style of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
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