The Washington Post ran a simply stunning story two days ago: Ukraine’s offensive derails secret efforts for partial cease-fire with Russia, officials say. As we will explain, if this account is accurate, it would mean Russia was willing to trade...
Caribbean drunken monkeys act surprisingly much like humans ZME Science This Tiny Fossil Links Wine With The Death of The Dinosaurs Science Alert A ‘middle income’ or profitability trap? Michael Robert’s Blog Volcano erupts after powerful earthquake in Russia’s Far East...
Conor here: The following piece doesn’t include much detail on the US Department of Agriculture investigation, but I think it’s important to highlight nonetheless. The investigation appears to be connected to a class action lawsuit by farmers against Tyson. They...
Reader flora recommended this Tucker Carlson interview with the highly credentialed sister and brother Casey and Calley Means, who both were on well-paid, prestigious career tracks. They gave it up because they could no longer stand profiting from a system...
From X, on Thursday: This is beyond ridiculous: industrial production and capacity utilization saw another massive downward revision, and Jul’s print still came in negative M/M – manufacturing is in recession: Note: Dr. Antoni has used industrial production, capacity utilization...
A few days ago, Eric Hovde spoke about impending mass layoffs. I couldn’t figure out what he was talking about; here’re some indicators for Wisconsin, and for the nation. Figure 1: Wisconsin Mass layoff notifications, by month of notification (blue,...
The banana apocalypse is coming. Can we stop it this time? ZME Science Can Art Save the “Post-Apocalyptic” Salton Sea? Sapiens Pandemics Structure and inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 spike refolding in membranes Science. Seems important. As new school year opens, COVID-19...
The US National Security Council (NSC) is currently working to develop a Black Sea security and development strategy across government agencies. The current National Defense Authorization Act already outlines several pillars of that strategy that can effectively be boiled down...
By Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, a professor of English at Central Michigan University, the Los Angeles Review of Books associate editor in charge of horror, and the founder and president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic. Originally...
From a paper by Michele Andreolli, Natalie S. Rickard, and Paolo Surico (presented at NBER Summer Institute Monetary Economics sessions): Using newly constructed time series of consumption, prices and earnings in essential and non-essential sectors, we document three main empirical...
