A New Orleans collective is a heartening example of community self help…and an indictment of income inequality and failing social programs.
Read more...Portland mayor Keith Wilson called on ICE to halt operations pending a probe of its latest shootings. That won’t happen. So what do cities do?
Read more...The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor is back from the dead, but what of all the issues with an imperial strategy that relies on data centers and desalination in a hotbox ready to blow.
Read more...One journalist called it “absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government.”
Read more...Quelle surprise! Smartphone fixation is producing conversation-deficient children.
Read more...Part the First: Ultra-Processed Foods and Addiction. Big Ag and Big Food may finally have a problem with their big moneymaking products. We have discussed UPFs here several times before. They fill the center aisles of grocery stores in much of the Anglophone world. This article in Scientific American adds to wave of information coming […]
Read more...Neoliberal free market ideology was always a fantasy. But what comes next given the late stage capitalism breakdown?
Read more...Liposuction deaths at a private-equity-backed spa chain, after other liposuction deaths, fail to elicit responses like curbs on advertising.
Read more...Gene therapy has been a goal of medicine since the first “inborn errors of metabolism” were identified by Sir Archibald Garrod in the early twentieth century. This was before anyone had a good idea of what a gene was, but the principles of Mendelian genetics were used by Garrod, with the assistance of William Bateson, […]
Read more...Horton’s work offers a compelling model of how popular education can contribute to progressive change, fostering critical thinking in slow times and accelerating the spread of radical ideas during movement peaks.
Read more...Part the First: No, This Is Not Another Bell Labs. Bell Labs was justifiably renowned as the place to do high level physics and engineering. It also supported Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in their research that identified the background cosmic microwave radiation that is the remnant of the Big Bang. But Bell Labs worked […]
Read more...On the debate over the life of the historical Jesus.
Read more...More on American resignation and hypocrisy about gun crimes.
Read more...Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?” Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current Administration as Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center. The Trump administration said it will be dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research […]
Read more...Yes, the Trump Administration is seeking to shunt asylum seekers to Uganda, Honduras, and Ecuador, presumably <1>pour décourager les autres.
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