What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely?
Right wing factions are determined to implement extreme agendas. Where are they heading?
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What to Eat Now, More Than Ever
Marion Nestle has been the essential guide to our “food system” (one trillion dollars a year) in the United States for a long time. Her work is relevant in other such as the United Kingdom that lack a robust food culture, for the most part because it was killed by the food system, not because […]
Read more...Is AI Creating Monsters?
More troubling new sightings on the AI front.
Read more...How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown
Did COVID-19 deepen the crises of capitalism and inject a sense of panic into the world’s power struggles?
Read more...What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
Fortunately, an executive order won’t stop states from restricting AI. But expect the Administration to try other routes.
Read more...Coffee Break: Science Update, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Good, Part the First: Basic Science Has the Answer, Once Again. T cells of the immune system are responsible for the establishment of self-tolerance and adaptive immune function. T cells come from the thymus, which is mammals basically disappears early in life in a process called involution. Understanding how the thymus might regenerate has […]
Read more...Doha Forum in Qatar: Another Node on the Grid of the Machine
Doha Forum in Qatar reveals how today’s global debates feed the larger machine of growth and power, with little space for divergent thinking
Read more...Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis
Utah aims to produce a model for Trump plan—an isolated “Accountability Campus” where commits will be reformed. Other states and localities are not far behind.
Read more...Revulsion, La Grande Bouffe, and the Spectacle of Grotesque Elite Self and System Destruction
Why our elites, starting with the top ranks in the Trump Administration, are disgusting.
Read more...The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
The magic of the market: a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters.
Read more...Investigation Reveals How Amazon Is Fleecing Public Schools With ‘Algorithm-Driven Pricing’
$74 for 36 markers.
Read more...Coffee Break: American Science Shattered
American Science, Shattered. So says is the title of Part 1 of a ten part series in STAT News. Since STAT articles are usually paywalled, I will summarize them here as they appear. Unlike most accounts of the current state of science in the United States, the authors of this article have found scientists who […]
Read more...Could an AI Have Suggested that the Earth Is Not at the Centre of the Universe?
Deviant thinking is on the decline as AI mirrors consensus instead of challenging it, making us more homogeneous and complacent toward power.
Read more...Is Male Infertility Contributing to Falling Birth Rates?
RFK, Jr. is exercised about falling birth rates and depicts falling sperm count as a major contributor. How sound is this view?
Read more...The Meaning of Freedom in These United States
Nicholas Buccola is a historian of the United States who will still be read 30-40-50 years from now. I regret that I will not be here to see where he takes us. In 2019 he published The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America. This […]
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