People’s misunderstanding of terms like ‘heritability’ shows how important it is to communicate science carefully
- by Alice Gregory
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Technologies of preserving and reviving organisms are already redefining the meaning of life, death, and extinction itself
- by Sadiah Qureshi
The experiences you had as a child influence your emotional life as an adult. Recognising these dynamics can be healing
- by Nickan Arzpeyma
The British pub, in all its rich diversity and versatility, has long been an undisputed central component of life on this island. Despite this, hospitality as a sector has been historically neglected as a site of political and industrial struggle, instead playing host to drinking sessions after the ‘real work’ has taken place. Nonetheless, the sector […]
Yes, the Americans and Israelis are inflicting a lot of damage. But that damage does not appear to be degrading the military enough to really matter. It’s mostly hitting civilians. There is zero possibility of stopping Shahed drone production, they are made with fiberglass bodies, there are hundreds if not thousands of facilities which can […]
Trump attacked Iran. That’s when a mysterious radio broadcast in Farsi began.
Regular readers will know that I hate the term NAIRU – or Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Rate-of-Unemployment – which is a concoction invented by mainstream economists to maintain unemployment at elevated levels (to keep the working class in its place) and give cover to central banks to run monetary policies that redistribute income from poor to rich. If you…
Reading guides to Sydney bookshops from the 1970s and 80s, it’s striking just how many there were in the city in those decades. Across the new, remainder, secondhand and specialist bookshops, there were more than you would be able to visit in a day. The 1987 guide by Christine Flynn lists over 100. Now the […]
It’s the 15th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and any lessons from that event seem to have been forgotten by most. Political leaders of all stripes, from centre-left to far right have been keen to promote nuclear power as at least a partial solution to the problem of replacing coal and gas. The peak […]
I have to admit that I am not at all sure of the date of International Women’s Day. It seemed to be every day of the past week or so. Which perhaps ought to be the case every damn week. So it seems timely to tell you about the current issue (Volume 35) of Women’s History […]
Nick Turse and Hooman Majd discuss war on Iran and other U.S. conflicts, and Sam Biddle breaks down how AI is being used.
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Together, we’ll tackle the question facing the country right now: How do you confront a presidency that operates without limits?
Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.
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The conglomerate has pledged to close all 134 of its locations in the state if lawmakers attempt to rein in its sprawling health business.
Struggling to speak after an operation, one man sets out to build himself a new connection to the world: a radio antenna
- by Aeon Video
You couldn’t love a clone of someone the same way you loved the original. But why? And what does this reveal about love?
- by Idowu Odeyemi
In 2022, Dame Tracey Emin — the art world’s former darling enfant terrible — requested that the government remove one of her artworks from 10 Downing Street. The piece in question, More Passion (2010), was a neon sign previously gifted to the government’s art collection when David Cameron was in office in 2011. It was […]
Trump’s Iran war is the culmination of a decades-long master plan — and only Congress has the power to end it.
~by Sean Paul Kelley Every credit cycle is different: they don’t repeat, but they do rhyme at the end. Phase One: the Expansion The credit cycle begins when intense speculation drives asset prices into bubble territory. This time around AI is the prime mover. AI stocks have clearly inflated, irrationally, and dangerously market averages. Nvidia’s […]
In earlier blog posts, yours truly has discussed the problems of confounding and ‘overcontrolling’ in causal analysis. A good illustration of how attempts to control for additional variables can sometimes worsen rather than improve causal estimates is the so-called M-bias problem. Let me give an example from economics to illustrate the issue. Estimating causal relationships […]