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When ships drop anchor off the icy continent, they threaten some of the oldest animals on Earth
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A generation ago, General Electric’s CEO, Jack Welch (1935 – 2020) was the most admired business manager in the world. And General Electric purportedly the most admired corporation. Among his well-known attributes, Welch “would fire the bottom 10% of his managers, regardless of absolute performance.” And this, alongside his more general fondness for downsizing, was […]
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June 9th, 2025: TCAF was this weekend and it was, as always, a great time. Thank you to everyone who came by to say hi, and I hope we can do it again soon! Censorship is dangerous, but I am struggling to see how we fight the rising tide of hate and fear without it, writes Mathilda Mallinson
Today is a public holiday in the parts of Australia that I live and I have travel commitments. So I’ll be back on Wednesday. What is this holiday about? Yes, it is deeply embarrassing but today is the King’s Birthday holiday in Australia that is meant to celebrate our glorious head of state, given that…
Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an hour’s drive northwest of Las Vegas. A pair of officials from the Department of Energy took me on a tour. They explained that nuclear tests were absolutely necessary. “Nuclear weapons are like automobiles,” one told me. “Ford doesn’t put a new automobile out on the highway until they’ve gone through a lengthy test process, driving hundreds of thousands of miles.” By then, in 1980, several hundred underground nuclear blasts had already occurred in Nevada, after the 1963 Limited Test Ban Treaty required that atomic testing take place below the earth’s... Read more Source: Is Nuclear Winter a Climate Issue? appeared first on TomDispatch.com. ‘The world as we knew it has gone’, declaimed Keir Starmer in The Telegraph in early April, with all the acuity of someone who, having slept through an earthquake, wakes up amid the ruins. But though he recognised the redundancy of ‘old assumptions’, his register granted to the new world a familiarity — a hint of […] When we provide such a critique, we often hear another mantra to which many economists subscribe: ‘It takes a model to beat a model.’ On the contrary, we believe that it takes facts and observations to beat a model … If a model fails to answer the problem to which it is addressed, it should […]
Despite its pretensions the mainstream failed to predict, has failed to adequately explain, and continues to fail to appropriately diagnose solutions for the major economic crises of the 21st century: from the Dot-Com collapse of 20012, to the financial crisis of 2008-10 and most recently Covid19 and its aftermath. Syll demonstrates that very little if […]
One line of thought that can be found in Mill is that good methodology consists in investigating significant forces in isolation from all interfering factors. When we have a good understanding of the behavior of all the main forces we can try to see how to put them all together. Thus we need only assume, […]
The FDA’s been caught slacking, crypto wants to eat your savings, and more from The Lever this week.
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