The Sunday Morning Movie presents The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000) A wonderful little movie about an intelligent robot and its very human relationships.
Read more...The federal government has a single contractor to assist with killing infected flocks, leading to delays and the use of controversial culling methods.
Read more...Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
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Read more...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 […]
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Read more...Scientists are investigating how plastic additives and microplastics affect our bodies, and are worried about what they’ve learned so far
Read more...An update on the worsening shortfalls at food banks as the impact of Federal cuts takes hold.
Read more...Mapping the contagion fever chart of how a Trump financial meltdown might unfold.
Read more...Trump is escalating his campaign against sanctuary cities, and potentially even sanctuary churches. How might that play out?
Read more...Why BRICS has gotten barely anywhere on launching its own finanicial institutions and why that is unlikely to change soon if ever.
Read more...Why the Trump-induced economic and financial train wrecks will be more severe than most pundits seem to anticipate.
Read more...Some sobering facts on how China is outstripping the US in science and technology advances.
Read more...The formidable trio of Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ann Pettifor assess the rapid changes in our economic system.
Read more...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.
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