Yves here. Since positions on vaccines have become so black and white (a cognitive bias!), we live in a bizarro world where those who dare bring up the topic are force-fit into one of two camps, regardless of what your views…
Watch: London Zoo’s capybaras and tortoises on weigh-in day BBC Going with the flow: How penguins use tides to travel and hunt PhysOrg Your Dog Has a Unique Ability to Read Your Mind. Here’s Why. ScienceAlert (Chuck L) Are Those Marble…
We have entered a parallel universe when Tucker Carlson, amplifying the concerns of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, is calling for more financial regulation, here of a relatively new form of extraction called buy now, pay later loans. Due to buy now,…
Yves here. This article provides a useful complement to Putin’s many remarks about the history of Ukraine from a Russia perspective. It examines the forces that led to the formation of Ukraine as a “self-constructed identity” yet why it was left…
Yves here. Keep in mind that what is blandly depicted as “date centers'” use, which creates the impression that it is due to all sorts of cloud users, such as for smartphones and small businesses, is increasingly due to AI, particularly…
Little joys of big people My Weekend via machine translation (Micael T). Trust me, this is delicious. Also makes me feel deficient by not possessing mildly eccentric amusements. Puppy fat jabs: are our pets next in line for weight-loss drugs? Guardian.…
Yves here. With the Western blather about “land swaps” as part of a settlement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict still being treated as a legitimate idea, due among other things to remarks by US special advisor Steve Witkoff over the weekend, the…
Yves here. We’re featuring this post more as a critical thinking exercise rather than for the findings of the study posted below, although they are also of interest. As you’ll see, a study performed using 2000 to 2005 data in Germany…
If you care about your health, do not fly Lufthansa. You might be booted from the plane for wearing a mask. And if you have friends or family who are immunocompromised, such as being on chemo, tell them to avoid Lufthansa…
It would seem fitting to try to pick my way through the press accounts of the Trump-Putin summit, except they are abjectly awful, chock-full of obvious bogosities and spin. Exhibit 1 of the horrorshow of mainstream reporting is the Wall Street…
Archaeologists in Mexico Discover Long-Lost City Inhabited by Maya Rebels Who Resisted the Spanish Conquest Smithsonian (Chuck L) Exposure to some common Pfas changes gene activity, new study finds Guardian (resilc) Scientists may have found the tiny DNA switch that made…
Yves here. We have been telling readers in comments, who labor under the misapprehension that the big Trump budget bill cut only Medicaid, that it also whacked Medicare bigly. This development is yet another “Die faster!” scheme. It also points to…
Yves here. This is seriously not good. I don’t understand how something as destructive as ChatGPT is being aggressively embraced. And it is not only imposing planetary-destruction cost but more mundane increased power costs to consumers generally. By Haley Zaremba, a…
Yves here. Articles like this drive me crazy. The efforts to shore up a discredited medical orthodoxy, here with vaccines, demonstrates in a pet peeve cognitive bias, that of black and white thinking. It is undeniable that RFK, Jr. getting a…
[If you see this note, it means the post launched before complete because reasons. Please return at 7:45 AM EDT for a final version] It’s telling when a mainstream outlets like the Wall Street Journal is alert enough to notice an…
Yves here. Trump is engaged in an ideological and even legitimacy war with major US universities, and has scored a lot of wins. As we warned, this is Pol Pot lite, trying to decimate the creation of highly credentialed and trained…
Yves here. The article below looks at researchers who are taking a “lessons learned” approach to cancer, as in focusing on patients who markedly beat the odds, either in surviving cancer or not getting it at all. We have some readers…
Yves here. It’s become fashionable, at least in the commentariat, to exhibit the cognitive bias called “halo effect” with respect to Bernie Sanders. “Halo effect” is the tendency to see people as all good or all bad. This is the distortion…
Yves here. This is a terrific talk in which James Galbraith, recapping his work in Entropy Economics, explains how the foundations of economics are fundamentally at odds with the operation and limits of our physical world. Trust me, either put it…
Yves here. Tom Neuburger continues his systematic coverage of how the US constitutional order is being revised to favor even more those at the top. I am stunned at the way the Trump-Putin summit is sucking the air supply out of…
Yves here. Given the imminent Trump-Putin summit, Russia is very much in the focus, as is the new US provocation in its Caucasus back yard via Trump’s loudly-announced plan for a 99 year lease on the Zangezur Corridor, which borders Iran.…
It’s been painful to observe the wretched state of reporting in the runup to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska this Friday. Admittedly, the Trump side gaslighted the press with talk of territory swaps, an idea which if it was voiced in…
Yves here. Due to having closely chronicled the 2007-2008 crisis, and then learning even more afterward by continuing to dig into what happened, yours truly has a strong point of view about what happened. In his post below, Richard Murphy correctly…
Yves here. The horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza become more intense and wide-ranging as the pace of its extermination accelerates. Israel is also stepping up its ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. It is attacking Southern Lebanon as the Lebanese…
Jellyfish force French reactor shutdowns, strain grid Euractiv So bad they’re good – why do we love terrible films? BBC (Robin K) Learning Greek – A Practical Guide Spengler (Micael T) #COVID-19/Pandemics Measles Cases by State in 2025 Visual Capitalist The…
Yves here. This VoxEU column, originally titled Recent patterns in global risk behaviour in financial markets, seeks to measure a “safe-haven factor” for the dollar and ascertain how it has operated over time and since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff shock and…
In an important bit of reporting, THE CITY documents how New York City now outstrips the entire nation in its rate of ICE arrests in city courthouses. Mind you, that means the people that ICE is nabbing were seeking to obey…
I must confess to be wanting in imagination. Widespread adoption of smartphones has led to a fall in social skills. Examples are pervasive, such a family members fooling with their devices rather than talking to each other at meals and our…
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