Radioactive Real Estate: Finding a Forever Home for Nuclear Waste
Castoffs from U.S. nuclear weapons get buried at one site in New Mexico. But what happens when that facility fills up?
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The U.S. Is Nowhere Near Ready for Climate Change
Climate change is cooking our collective gooses. What can be done to reduce the damage?
Read more...Bird Flu and Biomedicine, An Essay on What We Might Expect
Bird flu as a case study in the category error of libertarian medicine, the misuse of preprints, and resulting poor public health policy.
Read more...Battles Brew Over Radioactive Wastewater Discharge from Shuttered Nuclear Plants
New York State is trying to bar radioactive wastewater releases from out-of-service nuclear plants, as proponents insist they are safe.
Read more...Boeing and Baltimore Bridge Scandals: Monopolization and Criminal Negligence?
On how recent administrations enabled Boeing’s industry takeover and covered up safety deficiencies at Boeing and in the shipping industry.
Read more...More Economic Effects of Our Ongoing Covid Pandemic (with Cognitive Dysfunction and the Labor Market)
Are the effects of Long Covid on the workforrce “material”? Plus the labor market, labor force participation, “the economy,” etc.
Read more...Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks − Countries Facing Extreme Heat May Try It Anyway, and the World Needs to be Prepared
Like it or not, climate engineering is coming. What are some of the implications?
Read more...Baltimore Bridge Crash: Risk Management Questions
Why it’s a mistake to think of the Baltimore bridge collapse as catastrophic bad luck.
Read more...Looting of Boeing Set to Continue, Epitomizing Decline of Late-Stage AngloSphere Capitalism
Boeing is in far worse shape than is apparent, even with its quality debacles. And the big reason is the company can lumber on despite that.
Read more...Odds of US Bank Failures Rise with Office Space Loan Losses, Fed Interest Rate Mismanagement
US bank pain: Loans for urban office buildings come a cropper as they were already suffering other interest rate losses.
Read more...Is It Time To Embrace Geoengineering?
A long and useful recap of geoengineering methods.
Read more...Self-Driving Cars Hit the Wall
Self-driving cars have suddenly gone from being depicted as inevitable to likely never happening at scale. Why?
Read more...‘A Sick Joke’: Six Ways of Looking at a COP
Making sense of this COP means looking at optics and interests, and sadly not outcomes.
Read more...Do Masks Work During the Pandemic? Scientists Say “Yes.” Secondary Reviews of Clinical Trials Say “No.” So, Which Is It?
Four authors with top statistical chops, including Yaneer Bar-Yam and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, stomp all over the anti-mask Cochrane Report.
Read more...“Should CalPERS Fire Everyone and Just Buy Some ETFs?”
Another well-substantiated critique of CalPERS’ investment performance.
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