How historic records and new data uncovered the colossal underwater avalanche that unleashed a massive wave in 1650.
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. As always a pleasure listening to Edward Leamer and his critical views on the (mis)uses of statistical methods in empirical research. Main message: without a deep understanding of context, statistical and econometric analyses are useless!
We have new preview images for BBC, Disney+ & Russell T. Davies's David Tennant & Catherine Tate -starring Doctor Who: "Wild Blue Yonder."
Renowned Argentine sociologist and anti-imperialist critic Atilio Boron joins The Grayzone to discuss the victory of former tantric sex coach and emotionally unhinged liberatarian economic fundamentalist Javier Milei as the country’s president. Boron explains why the desperate popular sectors of Argentina fell for Milei’s shtick, and forecasts a violent rebellion of the president-elect’s economic austerity plans come to pass.
The post VIDEO: Understanding the insane appeal of Argentina’s Javier Milei first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post VIDEO: Understanding the insane appeal of Argentina’s Javier Milei appeared first on The Grayzone.
ICYMI. (You did not, of course.) Medhi Hasan’s take-downs are what people watch MSNBC for. Chris Hayes (MSNBC primetime host): The nature of this business is that people who are supremely talented sometimes have shows cancelled. It’s rough every time, but it comes with the territory (lord knows I’ve been close myself!) But I just want to say that @mehdirhasan is one of the most talented broadcast journalists I’ve ever seen or worked with and probably the single best interviewer in American TV. Grateful to have him as a colleague. Taylor Lorenz (Washington Post technology and online culture columnist): Mehdi is literally one of the only people in cable TV with a moral compass still intact. What a huge loss Washington Post: Although Hasan was not among MSNBC’s top-rated stars, his segments often went viral on social media, where users celebrated his takedowns of conservatives such as former Trump adviser John Bolton and Israeli government adviser Mark Regev. During a Nov. 16 interview on his show for NBC’s Peacock streaming service, Hasan pressed Regev on the children killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes.
In advance of the Catholic Church’s recent global gathering, Pope Francis raised the hopes of...
The MVC team chat about David Fincher's new film, The Killer, and other media-related topics.
If Shane MacGowan had a hero, it was the Irish writer and playwright Brendan Behan. When the New Musical Express sought out Brendan’s mugshot for a 1984 feature on the working-class Dublin writer, the image credit went to ‘Shane MacGowan’. The image had been on the wall in his London apartment, part of a shrine […]
Many journal editors request authors to avoid causal language, and many observational researchers, trained in a scientific environment that frowns upon causality claims, spontaneously refrain from mentioning the C-word (“causal”) in their work … The proscription against the C-word is harmful to science because causal inference is a core task of science, regardless of whether […]
by Daniel Wortel-London
Since 1998, the City of Las Vegas and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have been gambling with nature. By auctioning off public land from the BLM for development and using the proceeds to preserve natural areas, policymakers and federal officials have bet that development and conservation can go hand-in-hand.
But it hasn’t worked out that way.
As the Las Vegas region has grown from 1.3 to 2.7 million people since 1998,
The post Learning from Las Vegas: The Costs of Growth appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.
Are you curating your feed or is something else? A medical professional at a friend’s party recently asked if I’d had any contact with a mutual acquaintance. No, not since before the pandemic. But I’d been horrified a year or so earlier when I glanced at her Facebook page and found a stream of anti-vax and “do your research” style postings. He knew. It’s why he asked. He’d run into her at the gym. She told him she’d not received the Covid shots and had lost friends over it. And she’d been a medical professional as well. What happened? Perhaps the isolation during the pandemic. Perhaps too much time exposed to an algorithmically generated diet of such stuff. David French this morning cautions about the dangers of creating our own curated bubble realities. Conspiracy theories have been with us forever. Rachel Maddow’s “Prequel” recounts tales of Depression-era Americans convinced that Jews and communists had taken over the government. They stockpiled canned good and weapons for when the Jews came marching down the street to make slaves of them.
A damning new poll finds that three quarters of voters now see the Prime Minister as weak, Adam Bienkov reports
Hello there, neighbor. We are your friendly corporation moving in next door. We’re taking over this six-story building that used to house various small businesses, artists, and families. Integrating into your community is extremely important to us during this transition, so we’re removing all your parking for the next month.
We’re working with the best designers and engineers to ensure that we bring value to your community. It’s obvious that you don’t need any public spaces, cafés, restaurants, dog parks, playgrounds, or a new fire station. Your nearest grocery store is a mere thirty-minute drive away. What you’re lacking here is corporate offices.
We are committed to keeping you 100 percent in the loop about our construction plans. In fact, we mailed a certified letter to all you abutters—sorry, neighbors—about a Zoom meeting to discuss the project and voice any concerns you might have. You’ll receive this letter promptly three days after the meeting has occurred.
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores why the cuts announced to the corporation's flagship news programme are another damning, but unsurprising, blow to its reputation
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Star Trek: Discovery, Chappelle/Boebert, Battlestar Galactica, SNL, Doctor Who, The Boys/Saga, and more!
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They discuss Grim’s new book, “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.”
The post Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim on the Squad appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Nick Hunt
During the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture on Nov. 2, 2023, economist Isabel Schnabel shared her assessment of the factors that could impact disinflation in the euro area.
There is blood on Anthony Albanese’s hands over Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza.
The post Step up the fight as Albanese backs Gaza genocide first appeared on Solidarity Online.
AI is not just disrupting our lives but our very language too, writes Dan Clayton