Experiencing Natural Disasters Increases Partisan Disagreement on Climate Change
Those experiencing a climate-change-induced disaster wind up having more polarized beliefs about the role of human action.
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NATO Pledges Urgent Support for Ukraine’s Battered Infrastructure
NATO messaging about “helping” Ukraine is become even more divorced from reality.
Read more...Geoengineering Could Alter Global Climate. Should It?
Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Read more...Politics and Medicine, Medicine and Politics
On the long-standing US conflict between freedom and the rise in the scientific and professional practice of medicine, with that, authority
Read more...Affordability of Long-Term Care Systems in Times of Rapid Population Ageing
As the private long-term care industry in the US comes under more visible stress, a 32-nation look at the success of public programs
Read more...Truce in Lebanon: Can Diplomacy Rise from the Ruins?
A wide-ranging overview of the truce in Lebanon and what might come next.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Tries “Recovery Finally Underway” Office Space Patter as Securitized Office Mortgage Delinquencies Hit a New Post-Crisis High of 10.4%
The Journal gets egg on its face for trying to call a bottom in the office space market even as delinquencies were accelerating
Read more...Is Fear of Hybrid War With Russia Making Cash Great (Or At Least, Necessary) Again in Europe?
As unintended consequences go, this could be a big one.
Read more...Trump Threatens BRICS Countries With 100% Tariffs if They Ditch the Dollar
Why Trump’s dedollarization tariff threat is much more bark than bite.
Read more...Self-Censorship and the Ad Hominem Inference
Identifying a key mechanism that fosters self censorship.
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Erdogan Backstabs His Way Into Center of Middle East Conflict
Ankara’s ongoing support for extremist paramilitary groups in Syria threatens ties with Russia and China, and by aiding Israel he insults the Turkish people who overwhelmingly oppose US-Israel actions in the region.
Read more...Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of “Generative Biology”‘ Colonization at COP16
The COP16 biodiversity conference included Big Tech pushing black box “generative biology” AI-created DNA and related financial markets
Read more...Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s Pick to Head the NIH, Is a Eugenicist Charlatan
Putting on my hazmat suit…
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