Public health continues to rely on failed Covid response as it also ignores how Covid has weakened immune systems and made other outbreaks more likely.
Read more...Dear gentle readers: Apologies for a somewhat ragged Coffee Break today. Traveling in Scotland and time has been taken up with details (all good) along with a few unexpected disconnects (as in stuff happens). Part the First: Scientists to the Rescue? Economic growth is not the answer to any of our problems in this finite […]
Read more...AI’s reach in government services is already bigger than most realize and is set to grow considerably.
Read more...BRICS members have a lot to teach each other, and the advanced world, about waste reuse.
Read more...The latest national strike in a series over a year and a half against policies that a union leader said will heighten inequality and poverty
Read more...Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale leads charge for police state response that sees him and fellow techno-capitalists profit and gain more control.
Read more...A detailed look at some of the many mechanisms that translate poverty into sickness and shorter lifespans.
Read more...Labour, as many anticipated, is suffering an epic wipeout per early UK elections results. What might come next?
Read more...Heartland Institute, an ultra-conservative, climate-denialist, Trump-adjacent think tank, questions whether all adults should vote.
Read more...An informative and wide-ranging conversation of how economic policies can neglect, support, or impede the prosecution of war
Read more...Albert Einstein was chosen by Time magazine as the Person of the Twentieth Century. It was a good choice (and now is a good time to read Einstein more than seventy years after his death in April 1955, here and here). As noted by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer in their newly published book, The […]
Read more...The fertility freakout conveniently ignores that being a mother is not a great deal and that for planetary health, fewer babies is desirable.
Read more...Part the First: The Attack on American Science Continues, Unabated. A few days ago the president fired the National Science Board (NSB), all twenty-two members of a statutory twenty-five, who served staggered six-year terms that preserved institutional memory. The NSB was created pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to “recommend and encourage […]
Read more...Quelle surprise! Social media kingpins are more successful at exploiting the lower orders
Read more...A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps
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