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Saturday, July 25, 2026
Happy Bastille Day: Some Musings on Recent Events in Sri Lanka
Reflections on Bastille Day 2022: Last Saturday, Sri Lankans stormed their presidential palace, causing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to the Maldives.
Climate Protestors Stop Stage 10 of the Tour de France
Climate protests stopped Stage 10 of the Tour de France briefly on Tuesday. The race continued, but a worldwide audience heard their message.
Biden Expands Oil Exploration in Bid to Slow Climate Change
Biden’s decided to open the door to further offshore oil exploration: we must kill the planet in order to save it.
What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread, but temporarily ~
The Incredibly Cool James Webb Space Telescope
An exquisitely sensitive infrared astronomical observatory….
New Biden BA.5 “Plan” Openly Abandons Metrics for Preventing Infection, Butchers Mask and Ventilation Policy
BA.5 plan: Let ‘er rip!
Climate Change Risks to Sovereign Debt: How Integrated Assessment Models Inform Our Understanding
Evidence suggests that sovereign debt markets are taking climate effects into account in pricing, creating the potential for a climate-debt doom loop
Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry
The triumph of biological psychiatry has everything to do with the close ties between Big Pharma and academic psychiatry and little to do with compelling scientific evidence.
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2022
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Pursuing Its National Interest in the New Multipolar World: India to Boost Sakhalin-1 Oil Output
Sakhalin-1 opportunity: Indian firms to step in and replace departing U.S. and Japanese companies.
