The Rat Race for Research Funding Delays Scientific Progress
How bad incentives and funders’ love of glitz lead to poor scientific research outcomes and demotivated academics.
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CrowdStrike Lessons: Liability Shields Fuel Risky Practices, Expert Warns
A discussion of the regulatory and behavioral issues that helped produce the Crowdstrike 404.
Read more...Book Review: Malcolm Harris’ “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World”
The Silicon Valley citadel of capitalism is built on eugenics, bombs, and hatred of the working class, and it’s destroying the world.
Read more...Russian Asset Seizure Scheming: EU and Euro as US War Proxies Would Take Most Risk; USD Assets Only $4.6 Billion
Addressing wide-of-the-mark commentary on the latest too-clever Western idea. of stealing the $300 billion in Russian central bank assets.
Read more...The Curious Joy of Being Wrong – Intellectual Humility Means Being Open to New Information and Willing to Change Your Mind
On the value of cultivating intellectual humility.
Read more...Government Health Financing for All, Not Insurance
Why health insurance schemes, both private insurance and society-wide programs, are more costly than and inferor to government funding.
Read more...Colonialism or Sovereignty? How the Global Financial System Traps Countries in Debt
A deep dive on developing country debt crisis and how they reveal the workings of international finance.
Read more...The War on Terror’s Lingering Pain
The war on terror’s high costs are buried in the US.
Read more...The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.
Read more...Social Security May Be Failing Well Over a Million People With Disabilities – And COVID-19 Is Making the Problem Worse
Research suggests that well over 1 million people with disabilities are not getting the assistance they need, and even those who receive benefits are likely not getting enough.
Read more...Satyajit Das: SVB Collapse and Bank Turmoil – Latest Chapter in the Unwinding
Peeling back more layers of the SVB implosion and its broader implications.
Read more...California’s Plan to Disappear the Homeless
CARE courts to force treatment on those deemed mentally ill and could result in state conservatorship.
Read more...How Austerity Caused the NHS Crisis
As the NHS crisis intensifies, a look at how the once esteemed service got there.
Read more...As Gig Economy Grows, Its Toll on Workers Mounts
Democrats help the gig economy expands its reach as it brings pain and suffering to more American workers.
Read more...What Blew Our Financial Bubble So Big?
Why it’s more fun and profitable to be in the bubble economy than the real one.
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