In the 1930s, Lionel Robbins laid down the basic commandments of the discipline when he said that the premises on which economics was founded followed from ‘deduction from simple assumptions reflecting very elementary facts of general experience’, and as such were ‘as universal as the laws of mathematics or mechanics, and as little capable of […]
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Doctor Who stories involving parallel worlds tend to work best when emotions and heartbreak are tied to science fiction high-concepts.
The 2003 Iraq war led to huge numbers of civilian deaths, and continuing insurgencies in the Middle East and Africa
Why has Australia signed up for a pricey and security-diminishing nuclear sub deal?
The U.S. has a long and disturbing habit of ignoring the violence it commits overseas as well as at home.
The post Americans Don’t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own. appeared first on The Intercept.
Briahna Joy Gray and Matt Stoller discuss the collapse of SVB, and anti-trust in relation to East Palestine and the prospective merger between Jet Blue and Spirit Airlines.
The post The Roots of the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse (w/ Matt Stoller) appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Nearly 30 pages of FBI documents obtained by Unicorn Riot reveal a pattern of monitoring of Pilsen Community Books, a worker-owned and collectively managed bookstore in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.
The post FBI Bookstore Spying in Chicago Eyes Abortion Rights, Cop City, Anti-Development Activists appeared first on scheerpost.com.
A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation.
The post ‘Rigorous’ Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed By Top Academic Journal? appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Com a saída de Amoedo para salvar sua biografia e a contratação de Leandro Narloch, partido mostra que quer abertamente se abraçar com a ultradireita.
The post O Novo não precisa mais disfarçar: já pode alinhar os sapatênis com os coturnos appeared first on The Intercept.
Graham Norton, Lulu & Sam Ryder had to audition a lot of folks to choose the UK's Eurovision entrant - including a Dalek from Doctor Who?!?
This is Part two of a story by Dr Evan Jones, which lays bare Liberal lurks, like the lockdown fee scam imposed on those under NSW COVID-19 quarantine. read now...I have a couple of friends who (like my other friend below, who is also not made up) are very irritated by the non-stop AI/GPT coverage. I’m really intrigued by the hard and somewhat arbitrary line between those — like me, I admit — who are just endlessly fascinated by all its developments, and those […]
What's filling, yummy, creamy but crunchy and a guaranteed tummy-warmer on a cold evening? Megan Jane de Paulo's Creamy Mushroom Soup with Crunchy Mushroom Croutons. read now...Baby Zoomies! Merida the highland cow is now just over a week old! Be sure to hello to this bundle of fluff on your next visit to Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol, UK. She’s so fluffy! The Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm’s (Bristol, UK) highland cow, Agnes, gave birth to a female calf in early March. Her keepers have named her Merida.
Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines? In February, veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell report detailing how President Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
The post The Chris Hedges Report: How America Destroyed the Nord Stream Pipelines w/ Seymour Hersh appeared first on scheerpost.com.
I don’t have a strong opinion on this Wuhan Lab Leak brouhaha because I don’t think it’s knowable one way or the other. But polling says that most Americans believe the virus was caused by a lab leak even as most virologists think it’s far more likely to have been passed from animal to human. It’s now a political football being used by the right wing to persecute Dr. Fauci and others for the pandemic. The usual. Here’s the latest on the zoonotic transmission theory from a group of scientists: An international team of virus experts said on Thursday that they had found genetic data from a market in Wuhan, China, linking the coronavirus with raccoon dogs for sale there, adding evidence to the case that the worst pandemic in a century could have been ignited by an infected animal that was being dealt through the illegal wildlife trade. The genetic data was drawn from swabs taken from in and around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market starting in January 2020, shortly after the Chinese authorities had shut down the market because of suspicions that it was linked to the outbreak of a new virus.
Sir Lenny Henry gets more than a doctor in the following Red Nose Day 2023 Doctor Who sketch. In fact, he gets David Tennant's Fourteenth.
The AUMFs have long been used as justification for further military action even after the U.S.’s supposed withdrawal.
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