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How teachers and students have meekly accepted the strangling of education.

GSE reform is baack! Or not.

Please join us for a meet-up tonight at the Grey Mare. We look forward to seeing you.

A new effort at reducing suicides by understanding them better is showing promising results.

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune Alert reader dk (not to be confused with DK) is in the process of developing the following interactive […]

India will soon announce details of its single-use plastics ban; will it be seduced to courting the recycling fairy to address the waste management problems of other countries who don’t understand recycling isn’t a long-term sustainable option.

Interest rate derivatives trading spikes over last 3 years; the UK currently dominates. Will this continue post-Brexit?

Slouching towards Brexit.

A large scale study confirms that labour platforms, also known as crowdwork, are exploitative.

Pop-up Meetup in NYC with Michael Hudson and Jerri-Lynn tomorrow.

Study reports 30% drop in North American bird populations since 1970 – a loss of 3 billion birds.

This RNN interview reminds us that the fracking catastrophe didn’t originate under Trump: his predecessor rescinded the energy export ban.