Part the First: Back to the Past in Science and Medicine. The future of basic science in the United States looks grim for everyone from the aspiring graduate student to the full professor who has met her potential and has several graduate students, postdocs, and technicians working in her laboratory. The precipitous and arbitrary Big […]
Read more...How AI companions enable the junk-food version of happiness sold by materialistic, externally-oriented societies.
Read more...Human Rights Watch published a blistering analysis of ICE abuses in its Minneapolis raid in late 2025.
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Read more...Sadly, trying to tax wealth directly is not what it is cracked up to be. But there are other approaches that are viable.
Read more...Cheating by students seems to have risen over time. Is that due to greater ease, falling values, or perceived competitive pressure?
Read more...Glen Campbell, who was a member of The Wrecking Crew, once remarked that he had worked hard for ten years to become an overnight success in 1967, with thanks to John Hartford. Without stretching too much, this same trajectory, extended by more than ten years, has been illustrated recently in biomedical research by the case […]
Read more...Big Tech elitists enlist AI for power grabs, from spying in our homes to profiting from militarism. Luckily, people are fighting back.
Read more...Conor here: Perhaps what the authors call “the holy grail of environmental policy” (economic growth with less emissions) needs a rethink. Sooner rather than later they’ll have no choice as global warming will do the job if conflicts don’t, and degrowth will be imposed on us one way or another. The European Central Bank, for […]
Read more...Is there any way back from the extreme concentration of power in societies across the world?
Read more...Older men show less cognitive decline if they keep working. Does this finding apply only to paid jobs or would charity roles be salutary too?
Read more...A reminder on the Declaration’s 250th anniversary of the lack of freedom due to poverty and wealth inequality.
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Read more...Part the First: Pope Leo XIV and the Larger World. Of the academic historians currently writing for both their colleagues and students and the general reader, Greg Grandin is among the finest. In The Education of Pope Leo XIV he places the former Father Bob Prevost and current Pope Leo XIV in context of our […]
Read more...AI benefits are predicated on social progress. However, while societies constantly change, it is not always for the better
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