Yves here. Lambert and I both found the news tonight to be oddly slow. So a cultural offering, this one on what might be gleaned from human prehistory and the…
Patient readers: One more cross-post while the Internet is out in the Third World country where Yves currently resides. I am to ask if UK readers, especially Colonel Smithers, agree…
Yves here. The entire field of weight management is dodgy due among other things to the extremely weak understanding of diet and nutrition, in part due to it being an…
Yves here. I am sorry for the lack of original posts today and hope you find the cross post offerings to be sufficiently meaty. My internet was down most of…
Finland, like its Scandinavian peers, is among the world’s most cashless economies. But according to the central banker, now is not a good time to give up on cash. Households…
The ongoing Western self-immolation via poorly-thought-through sanctions becomes more bizarre as the US and its allies keep piling on. The Biden Administration looks to have a contagious version of Dunning-Kreuger…
Yves here. Ooopsie! The Russian investigation of the Kerch bridge bombing has apparently ascertained that the materials used to make the bomb (I assume the nitrogen fertilizer) was smuggled from…
Tens of millions of people work in the global gig economy across services like food delivery and transport.
Lambert and I, and many readers, agree that Ukraine has prompted the worst informational environment ever. We hope readers will collaborate in mitigating the fog of war — both real…
I hope you’ll be able to take the time to watch Gonzalo Lira hosting a discussion with Mark Sleboba, an international affairs and political security analyst and faculty member at…