Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan just had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Nov. 24 in which the former reportedly talked up plans to expand cooperation…
Yves here. A bit confusingly, the less well publicized COP16, an annual global biodiversity meeting under UN auspices, convened shortly before the COP29 climate conference. But a common element of…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers will remember that, based on their Covid performance under two administrations, I have often called for the CDC to be burned to the ground,…
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in ‘remarkable’ Scotland rewilding project The Scotsman World Beekeeping Awards axe honey prize due to fraud BBC All Life on Earth Today Descended From…
Lambert Strether: Dang, another book to read: Kropotkin. By Elizabeth Svoboda, a science writer in San Jose, California, and the author of What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of…
Yves here. Please note that some of the speculation about the new Russian Oreshnik missile has been cleared up by later news reports and unusually forthcoming commentary by Vladimir Putin.…
Yves here. I do not even remotely understand the very strong message here of “optimism good, pessimism generally bad”. It has been repeatedly documented that pessimists are much better at…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, I hope you all had an excellent Thanksgivng and are looking forward to the weekend to come! –lambert Bird Song of the Day Northern…
EconomyGovernmentPolitics 26 November 2024, 3:07 am 1 minute By Reuters News Agency As cited in Reuters special report, Donald Trump’s return to power portends a shakeup in the U.S. approach…
“It is a question of having access to all the services of the State without having a computer, smartphone or tablet.” As the world becomes steadily digitised, it is getting…