Overthinking what you said? It’s your ‘lizard brain’ talking to newer, advanced parts of your brain Medical Xpress
If MMT is wrong, why is it so much better at predicting the economy – and economic disaster? Dougald Lamont’s Substack
2,000-Year-Old Psychedelic Potion Found in Ancient Egyptian Mug SciTech Daily
Climate/Environment
The Deregulation of Cancer Texas A&M Law Review
Huge gas plant eyed to power mystery $5B Louisiana data center Floodlight News
Water
After ‘The Love Boat’ ship mysteriously sinks, town worries about safe drinking water: ‘Nefarious dark stuff’ New York Post
Newly identified chemical in drinking water is most likely present in many homes and could be toxic, study finds NBC News
Pandemics
Some good news…
Novavax just released animal data on their H5N1 vaccine.
It both worked as a priming vaccine and as a single dose on top of existing influenza vaccines in primates…
And as a intranasal and intramuscular in mice.
Take the intranasal data with a grain of… pic.twitter.com/8U31nVAQDU
— Don Ford – The People’s Strategist – (@DonEford) November 22, 2024
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New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults Northwestern Medicine
Healthy elbow room: Social distancing in Neolithic mega-settlements Phys.org
China?
Huawei’s chip breakthrough makes Apple in China vulnerable Al Maydaeen
Adrift in the South Granta
Old Blighty
Beyond Growth Phenomenal World
Why do Labour believe in private equity? Funding the Future
European Disunion
A Miami Financier Is Quietly Trying to Buy Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline WSJ
Europe Is Already Facing Its Next Energy Crisis Bloomberg
Radek Sikorski wants to be Poland’s president. Is his wife’s Trump-bashing a problem? Politico
Syraqistan
Patrick Lawrence: The ICC Warrants and the World They Announce Scheerpost
Hague Invasion Act: Can US invade Netherlands to protect Israel? The New Arab
The World Rejects Israel’s ‘Generals’ Plan’ for Gaza, So the Generals Work Around It Haaretz
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Huckabee as Trump’s pick for Israel ambassador is a win for Christian Zionism. Here’s why. USA Today
Oldest ever ‘Jesus is God’ inscription found in Israeli prison, deemed greatest find Interesting Engineering
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Merkava IV Barak Down: How Israel’s Enhanced New Tank Was Designed to be Near Indestructible Before Being Taken Out Military Watch
Yemen Appears to Have the Upper Hand in Its Conflict With the United States Countercurrents
Massive Israeli airstrike levels apartment building in central Beirut The Cradle
Is Israel expanding territorial control toward Syria? Responsible Statecraft
New Not-So-Cold War
The message Biden Admin got from Russia’s IRBM missile strike is that Putin will escalate if the US/NATO fire ATACMs missiles into Russia. That’s what Biden wants. So today, more US ATACMs hit Russia, in the expectation that Putin will further escalate.https://t.co/Q1jovjU4gt
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) November 24, 2024
Joe Biden’s Ukraine ATACMS Move Is a Gift for Trump—Ret. General Newsweek
Trump depends on the EU and UK to act as peacemakers more than he thinks The Guardian
France Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia: “No Red Lines” in Defense Support United24
Making the Most of Ukraine’s Freedom to Strike Russia The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Key European NATO Bases in Reach of Russia’s Oreshnik Hypersonic Missile Sputnik. Map:
On the Brink Scott Ritter Extra
Why ending with a whimper may be better The New Indian Express
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Russia ‘likely’ to transfer submarine tech to China, N. Korea: INDOPACOM Chief Breaking Defense
Russian weapons are a hit seller Marat Khairullin Substack
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Responding to America’s Machiavelli Wannabes on Ukraine Landmarks: A Journal of International Dialogue
Why Ukrainian soldiers came to Idaho to study nuclear forensics Defense One
The Russians are taking Zelenskyy’s declarations seriously.
Recently, the Russians struck the legendary Yuzhmash with six high-explosive warheads, raising questions, especially:
What is Yuzhmash?
Yuzhmash is the largest and oldest military space factory, and during Soviet… pic.twitter.com/QHNqoGJQNg
— Patricia Marins (@pati_marins64) November 23, 2024
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Has Denmark challenged the right of innocent passage? Watch Yi Peng 3 to find out Lloyd’s List
Imperial Collapse Watch
Graham: So to any ally, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, if you try to help the ICC, we’re going to sanction you. pic.twitter.com/skSkAWiLp8
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 23, 2024
Trump Transition
Unions Note Chavez-DeRemer’s Record, ‘But Donald Trump Is the President-Elect’ Common Dreams
John Bolton rips into Trump’s pick for counter-terrorism chief Sebastian Gorka The Guardian
Trump named Sebastian Gorka as a Senior Director for national security policy. Here’s a discussion we had on X Spaces, with a special appearance from @aaronjmate
– Gorka calls Putin a “KGB killer” with whom no negotiated settlement can be reached to resolve the war Ukraine.… pic.twitter.com/MePBnOiJWI
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 23, 2024
2024 Post Mortems
Brunch, Interrupted The Gauntlet
The impact on Michigan voters was more notable pic.twitter.com/8siEur6Fn9
— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) November 22, 2024
Realignment and Legitimacy
Vaticanista Sandro Magister on the Ascendance of the Postliberal Right. Postliberal Order
Obama Legacy
The State of Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S. Commonwealth Fund. 23% of working-age U.S. adults are underinsured and 9% are uninsured.
Healthcare?
How Lincare Cashed In on the Disastrous Recall of Philips Breathing Machines — at the Expense of Patients ProPublica
Supply Chain
How supply chains fuel transnational conflict in the Middle East Chatham House
Groves of Academe
Breaking the Cycle: Against the Militarization of Neuroscience Research Logic(s)
AI
Deadly and Imminent: The Pentagon’s Mad Dash for Silicon Valley’s AI Weapons Public Citizen
Why Ukraine is Establishing Unmanned Forces Across Its Defense Sector and What the United States Can Learn from It Center for Strategic & International Studies
It’s Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots IEEE Spectrum
The Bezzle
Meta Removes Over 2M Accounts Linked to Pig Butchering Scams CNET
Tesla Cybertruck Owners Discover New Weakness: Magnets Jalopnik
Antitrust
The Proposal to Break Up Google Is Finally Here Matt Stoller, Big Tech on Trial
Class Warfare
Humanoid robot Figure 02 impresses at BMW plant with 400% efficiency upgrade Interesting Engineering
An interview with David Hemson – lessons from the South African liberation struggle Review of African Political Economy
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