Netanyahu seems determined to lash out at any and all opponents, as if Yahweh or the US can bail him out of whatever mess results. We’ll turn first, and briefly, to Netanyahu making official his new genocidal campaign against Lebanon,...
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. GMOs have reduced diversity while also reducing fitness (as in...
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 featured sobering warnings, such as Preparing for Collapse: Why the...
Wrinkles reveal whether elephants are left- or right-trunked, study finds Guardian (Dr. Kevin) Witches around the world aeon Keynes in Dublin Dublin Review of Books (Anthony L) Everything Is Out of Water: Should a philosopher have sayings? The Point (Anthony...
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 scientific reasoning. The first is foundational myths, that persuasive-seeming early...
Envisaging Milton under Trump 2.0: Source: NOAA. Following: Source:Time, Feb 1, 2020. From Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise on page 666: The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated,...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Kind readers, thanks to so many of you for asking after me yesterday, when I had described my fall. In fact, I am, as I thought I would be, in form today. No sprain or...
GDPNow up from 2.5% on 10/1 to 3.2% on 10/8 (q/q AR), on the basis of auto sales and employment situation releases. Source: Atlanta Fed, accessed 10/8/2024. This is what other nowcasts/tracking estimates are indicating. Figure 4: GDP (bold black),...
Reader Steven Kopits writes: Two down quarters in 2021. Typical definition of a recession. I don’t believe I have declared a recession since. No negative quarters in 2021. I think Mr. Kopits meant 2022. No two consecutive quarters of growth...
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 a critical component of Putin’s proposed peace terms, which he...
