The Dangerous Illusion of Climate Resilience
The latest floods, wildfires, and other disasters reveal the flaws of adaptation as the main response to climate change.
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What Science Says About Food Additives
RFK Jr. has said the U.S. should end the use of synthetic food additives. How would that affect public health?
Read more...Links 4/23/2025
Prevagen®: A Most Curious Dietary Supplement for Your Brain
Dietary supplements are a large part of the alternative medicine universe, with annual sales of more than $70B in the United states and much more than that in the rest of the world. I have followed the supplement business since tryptophan, a canonical amino acid marketed as a sleep aid, caused an outbreak of eosinophilia-myalgia […]
Read more...‘Making the West Great Again’
At her recent meeting with Trump, IItalian PM Giorgia Meloni declared her allegiance to “western nationalism.” What does such nonsense portend for Italy and Europe?
Read more...Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – War with Iran
The 9/11 attack on the U.S. triggered a series of disastrous wars in the Mideast in which the U.S. pursued the goals of overthrowing despots, securing oil supplies, and removing any real or potential military threats to Israel. The result was a large expenditure of blood and treasure for very little geopolitical gain and the […]
Read more...As Appetite for War and Repression Rise in the New Western (Dis-)Order, Palantir Is Making a Killing
Silicon Valley’s darkest and most secretive unicorn “has finally made it big”. But at what cost to the rest of us?
Read more...Satyajit Das: On Cinema –Surviving Childhood
A look at some prime cinematic treatments on the coming of age, not the treacley or heroic sort, but nuanced portraits.
Read more...Coffee Break: Across the Pond Where Stupidity Replaces Sound Policy
With the government at a loss as to how to arrest the decline of the UK, stupidity seems to have taken the place of sound policy
Read more...Before Banks: Historical Lessons for Rethinking Credit
The era before modern banking took off featured flexible, highly personal credit arrangements, in some ways better than what we have now.
Read more...Links 4/20/2025
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: M (1931) Run Time 1h29m
The Sunday Morning Movie presents M (1931) A classic b&w crime drama set in 1930’s Germany, it was director Fritz Lang’s magnum opus.
Read more...Scientists Found a Potential Sign of Life on a Distant Planet – An Astronomer Explains Why Many Are Still Skeptical
Many uncertainties remain about K2-18b.
Read more...Come-Gimme! Why Do We Shrug When Apes Cross the Language Barrier?
Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.
Read more...“Is Trump About to End Democracy in the USA?”
Trump asked the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to determine whether to use the Insurrection Act to secure the southern border
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