Crypto crirme, particularly violent ones like finger-choppings, are increasing. This should not be much of a surprise.
Read more...A harsh look at schemes for a happy future, at least for billionaires, which ignore their problems and excuse tolerating rot today.
Read more...Why pseudo-wealth like crypto is detrimental to social welfare, as in the collective good.
Read more...Part the First. A Few Words in Response to the Excellent Commentariat of Naked Capitalism. No one knows better than I that funding of science in the United States is hit or miss. My overall average flirts with the Mendoza Line, which is not so bad. For most I do not miss the grant treadmill/lottery, […]
Read more...I was listening to the journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News last week as he talked briefly about his wife’s ongoing cancer treatment. His short gloss was directly on point, and it motivated me to dig deep in my archives on the history of research on breast cancer and how one never knows what […]
Read more...More proof at Social Security of the damage done by letting DOGE run wild.
Read more...The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.
Read more...Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.
Read more...Some sobering facts on how China is outstripping the US in science and technology advances.
Read more...The formidable trio of Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ann Pettifor assess the rapid changes in our economic system.
Read more...Having faced decades of environmental racism, community members are in the middle of their greatest fight yet.
Read more...The latest floods, wildfires, and other disasters reveal the flaws of adaptation as the main response to climate change.
Read more...An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.
Read more...Many uncertainties remain about K2-18b.
Read more...What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
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