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Graham Platner’s firearms trainings are only the most public example of the left’s efforts to arm themselves.

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Balliol Croft, Cambridge27. ii. 06My dear Bowley, I have not been able to lay my hands on any notes as to Mathematico-economics that would be of any use to you: and I have very indistinct memories of what I used to think on the subject. I never read mathematics now: in fact I have forgotten […]

Getting rid of fossil fuels is really hard – and we’re not making much progress Martin Brueckner, Charles Roche and Tauel Harper If miners, the…

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ICE’s investigative division, increasingly involved in ground-level immigration enforcement, is using Nvidia tech to crunch data.

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Failures in privatised care starkly illustrate the inevitable failure of neoliberalism Geoff Davies The failures of privatised child care and aged care have starkly illustrated…

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The heart of mainstream economics Jim Byrne You need assumptions to build useful economic models – but those assumptions should not influence the results. I…

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Key policies for the energy transition Mark Diesendorf The federal government has released its 2035 greenhouse gas emissions target. However, more important than the target…

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From public good to corporate enterprise: The financialisation of universities- (Part I) John H Howard In recent months, Australian universities have been increasingly scrutinized over…

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When ‘sustainable’ fashion backfires on the environment Erez Yerushalmi and Krishnendu Saha The circular economy – the idea of “reduce, reuse and recycle” – has…

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The Road Not Taken Lars Syll Had the whole discipline catastrophically misunderstood Keynes’ deeply revolutionary ideas? We heterodox economists, who have chosen the road less…

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Are business schools priming students for a world that no longer exists? Carla Liuzzo and Mimi Tsai Endless economic expansion isn’t sustainable. Scientists are telling…

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Scientists take another step toward unraveling a tangled web

The post Why Do Spiders Decorate Their Webs? A New Piece of the Puzzle appeared first on Nautilus.

Financial markets cannot punish a sovereign government. Here’s why Steven Hail, Stephanie Kelton and Darren Quinn What the UK Mini-Budget Really Proved “You’ve got to…

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Fifty years of political economics at Sydney University – what has it meant for us? Evan Jones Earlier this year The Journal of Australian Political…

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Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.

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In a few days Zohran Mamdani is poised to become the first South Asian Muslim...

Last Friday, October 24, the Department of Agriculture announced that there would be no emergency...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has not recused himself from a case that could stop states from holding federal contractors accountable for climate damage and other malfeasance.

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INTERVIEWER: People usually use [the term “elevated horror”] to refer to A24’s movies, horror that’s very heavy on the metaphorical. Hereditary, Midsommar, movies like that.

JOHN CARPENTER: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
— From the AV Club’s interview with legendary horror film director, John Carpenter.

Honey? We need to talk.

I wanted 15 Thornhill Road to be perfect for us. We’ve put so much into this move, and I think that we wanted it to work so badly that we’re pretending nothing’s wrong. But the signs are all there.

The howls from the basement. The bloody child’s handprints on the bedsheets. The face that appears for a split second in the bathroom mirror and makes a deafening sound whenever we look up from washing our faces.

Honey. I don’t think our haunting is elevated.

Contradiction and fear at America’s only physical museum of disability

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Pennhurst State School and Hospital, Paranormal Investigations, Autism, Eugenics, Dr. Henry H. Goddard, Suffer the Little Children, Roland Johnson, Demon-Auctioneer, Limerick, Speaking for Ourselves, The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Nathaniel Guest, The Halderman Verdict, A Moldy Baby Doll, The US Haunt Industry, Randy Bates, Bloody Straitjackets, Lost in a Desert World, A Doghouse