A book review from Inside Story: After The Spike by Spears and Geruso The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight billion before declining to pre-modern levels and eventually to zero. […]
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Nowadays, when I go to an art gallery, it’s usually to play. One big reason for this is that I have two small children: pretty much the only things they do when they’re awake are play, eat, and, if not playing or eating, complain. Another reason is that I live near the BALTIC gallery in […]
Twenty eight year old Sydney based accounts assistant, Jeff Jones, has spent his week at work bemoaning to one and all how he has no interest in any of the weekends games of ‘sportsball’ as he calls it. Mr Jones... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 17, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] Pentagon […]
The influence of the basic themes of the philosophy of history on the social-theoretic argument of the Dialectic of Enlightenment is so strong that Adorno and Horkheimer cannot but comprehend the socially oppressed subject as a passive and intention-less victim of the same techniques of domination that are aimed at nature. It seems as if […]
In the latest edition of DWM, Doctor Who icon Sylvester McCoy discussed traveling to Ukraine for FanCon to bring some hope to the fans there.
Workers get trapped, lobbyists push for a D.C. crackdown, and more from The Lever this week.
Today, economics education has all but erased courses on the history of economic thought and economic methodology. This is not just an oversight — it is an intellectual crisis. A discipline that fails to reflect on its own foundations, that neglects to question its methods and assumptions, is a discipline in decline. History and methodology […]
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Arriving in November, BBC's "The Art of Time Travel" is a Doctor Who concept art book that showcases 20 years' worth of concept artwork.
AI chatbots lose their therapy license, data centers get stuck with the bill, harm reduction strategies pay off, and a live music monopoly gets booed off the stage.
The police seem to run reds whenever they feel like it — and only they could say whether it’s a real emergency.
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The Fifteenth Doctor Who returns in Titan Comics' Full November 2025 Solicits
by Vijay Selvam* Bitcoin has failed. Seventeen years since inception, Bitcoin remains a solution in search of a problem. With its eyewatering volatility, it has flopped as an inflation hedge. The much-touted scarcity of its 21-million-coin cap is rendered meaningless in a landscape teeming with thousands of other cryptocurrencies, each claiming to be scarce in its own […]
There is an old European folk tale, which most of us know as ‘Chicken Licken’. In the course of the story, the title character wanders around telling various animals (Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey) that the sky is falling down. They believe him, and together they head off on a mission ‘to […]
Private equity giant BlackRock is waging a scorched-earth campaign to acquire a regional power company as Wall Street seeks to profit from the AI energy boom.
A new generation of petite, submersible tracking tags offers a fresh look at the lives of little fishes
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This microscopic garden was a miraculous failure
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Developing a high-tech, brain-like memory device led to a “cute surprise”
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AG Gentner Drummond, who is running for governor, told Glossip’s lawyer that the timing of his release hinged “on his own political calculus.”
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