“After von der Leyen’s silence, Bourla had the opportunity to set the record straight in the European Parliament, but he preferred to slip away. Why all these secrets? What do they have to hide from European citizens?”
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Hurricane Ian Capped Two Weeks of Extreme Storms: How Climate Change Fuels Tropical Cyclones
As hurricanes occur, we expect more of them to be major storms. Hurricane Ian and other recent storms, including the 2020 Atlantic season, provide a picture of what that can look like.
A Tale of Tier 3 Cities in China
The stock of real estate in China is now quite large for what is still a lower-middle-income country.
Nobody Cares About The Labour Files
A recent Al Jazeera documentary shows how British Labour Party officials worked alongside the media against the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. With Starmer’s Labour Party now leading in the polls, the British media have little appetite to cover their own role in undoing the Corbyn leadership.
Oil Traders Are Cashing In on Volatile Markets
Oil traders, including the trading desks of the big oil companies, continue to trade in Russian hydrocarbons and are making extraordinary profits.
The Covid-19 Guidance on CDC’s Website is a Crime Against Humanity
A massacre of the innocents.
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/3/2022
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The Aerodynamics of Velvet: What Humans Can Learn from Owls
Scientific research has coaxed the owl from the shadows and restored her to Athene, the Greek goddess of wisdom.
The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Death Is Anything but a Dying Business as Private Equity Cashes In
Private equity is buying up funeral homes, enticed by a large industry with reliable income that is still mainly populated by small businesses.
Addiction Instead of Taxation
Increasing duties on tobacco is least effective amongst the least advantaged segments of the community at decreasing smoking. Over time, the effect of approaches such as this is to push an increasingly larger share of the burden for government revenue onto a smaller, and more disadvantaged and addicted section of the population.
Pharma-Funded FDA Gets Drugs Out Faster, But Some Work Only ‘Marginally’ and Most Are Pricey
The pharma-funded system at the FDA is becoming more prevalent and, because of the funding structure now in place, will not be easy to unpick. With such a large proportion of the drug regulation budget deriving directly from drug makers, and more input from drug makers at every stage in the process, the divide between the FDA and drug makers is rapidly shrinking.
