Yves here. We’ve explained repeatedly that the Ukraine “raw earths” deal is based on extreme exaggeration of the mineral deposits that the Ukraine government owns (or to which it retained…
The state of play in the Russia-US negotiations after their session early this week in Saudi Arabia failed to get much if any front-page attention. That was thanks to the…
Yves here. As of this hour, there is still no joint statement from Russia and the US on their long day of talks in Saudi Arabia yesterday. But in a…
In the United States before World War II, support for basic biomedical and clinical research was haphazard, depending somewhat on the kindness of strangers. For example, that far-seeing politician Franklin…
Yves here. While this piece teases out an interesting thesis ‘splaining apparent Trump economic madness, IMHO Varoufakis gets off on the wrong foot by depicting Trump and his team as…
Yves here. This post of the collateral damage, as in unnecessary deaths and other damage done to patients when hospitals are overloaded by climate extreme episodes has more general application.…
I consider the pursuit of comprehensive national defense against nuclear missile attack to be what Paul Krugman calls a “zombie idea,” an idea that refuses to die despite being refuted…
Yves here. The use of psychedelic mushrooms as a mental health treatment is a potentially important step forward, but this post suggests that the experiment part is not an inaccurate…
Imagine a technology that could facilitate an unprecedented expansion of totalitarian power in the hands of the ECB and EU Commission. What could possibly go wrong? If you are a…
Yves here. I hope you’ll give this important post the attention it deserves. It presents a distressingly plausible explanation of what Musk and his fellow tech broligarchs are up to…