Yves here. As Helene and Milton deliver a one-two punch to the Southeast US, and many parts of the world are besieged by record-setting heat and community and crop wrecking…
Yves here. We have a fair number of activists in our community. I would be curious to get their reactions to the article below. I have not been an activist,…
Yves here. As KLG explains in detail below, received wisdom on Alzheimer’s disease is a classic example of at least two very damaging yet widespread failures in what passes for…
Yves here. We’ve been decrying Green New Deal unicorn/hopium as wildly inadequate responses to greenhouse gas emissions for some time. We are now past the point of no return. We’ve…
Yves here. If you are the sort who has reservations about GMOs, you really won’t like synthetic biology, particularly the AI “we don’t really know how we got there” kind.…
Poison pill nouna financial tactic or provision used by a company to make an unwanted takeover prohibitively expensive or less desirable -Merriam Webster Yours truly must confess to having overlooked…
By Dan Falk, a science journalist based in Toronto. His books include “The Science of Shakespeare” and “In Search of Time.” Orignally puhlished at Undark. It’s not clear who first…
CBS US Vice-President Kamala Harris was pressed on issues including the Middle East, Ukraine, gun ownership and immigration during a one-on-one interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes. The recorded interview…
Isabella Morris The US presidential election is just weeks away and one essential voting bloc is getting a lot of attention from both parties: young voters. But it’s economic woes…
Europe is hardly the safest place for financial assets these days, as Russia and Venezuela can attest. It may now be Argentina’s turn to have its assets frozen or even…