Note to readers: Germany is not my bailiwick. Unlike my father, a retired teacher of German and French, I do not speak any of Goethe’s mother tongue. But given the paucity of coverage in the English speaking media of this...
Tosca and the baby seagulls One Garden Against the World A World Built for House Sparrows (excerpt) Flaming Hydra Trail cameras capture first-of-its-kind footage of ‘one of the rarest’ feline species in the world: ‘An incredibly encouraging sign’ The Cooldown...
Yves here. We have actually have had a major AI financial crisis, except it occurred well before that nomenclature became common. Algo-driven trading is an AI implementation, particularly the black box variety. The 1987 stock market crash resulted from a...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Patient readers, there is a lot of political material to process today, some of which* I still need to sit and think about, so please check back. –lambert NOTE Roughly, how organic was Kamala’s fundraising...
The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that seasonally adjusted U.S. real GDP grew at a 2.8% annual rate in the first quarter. That’s close to the long-run historical average of 3.1%, and continues what has now become a fairly...
Lots of fresh material and debate, they question me, lots of philosophy, here are the links. And this is a new podcast from Peter and Kasia, Lives Well Lived, further interesting episodes are on the way. The post My podcast...
Yves here. This post describes studies suggest that traumatic brain injuries play a significant role in the high suicide rates among active duty and recently decommissioned US service members. Although the findings are significant for US soldiers, this strong correlation...
Yves here. Jomo’s title and his new post describes how the poor are slipping even further behind despite the appearance of generally rising living standards in most of the world. On a macro level, it really is true that the...
Yves here. Lambert will have ample coverage of the horrible Netanyahu speech in Links and probably Water Cooler today. Nevertheless I am also running this post to provide further witness to US complicity in the genocide in Gaza, plus the...
Kansas biologists find ‘super rare’ threatened species in the mouth of a hungry toad KSNT (RK). 11 Extraordinary Sharks That Live in Deep Sea Waters ZME Science How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt FT. Commentary: Private...
