John Hillier, Tom Perkins, Ryan Li, Hannah Bloomfield, Josie Lau, Stefan Claus, Paul Harrington, Shane Latchman and David Humphry In 2022 a sequence of storms (Dudley, Eunice and Franklin) inflicted a variety of hazards on the UK and across Northwest Europe, resulting in £2.5–4.2 billion in insured losses. They dramatically illustrate the potential risk of … Continue reading What if it’s a perfect storm? Stronger evidence that insurers should account for co-occurring weather hazards
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Penny Pepper shares her thoughts on finally catching the virus as a Clinically Extremely Vulnerable disabled person
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Gen Z is the most pro-union generation alive.
The gun club at the centre of a NSW Liberal Government corruption scandal became a financial disaster at the expense of taxpayers. read now...What kind of bipartisanship do we want? Smooth-as-silk to grow our Pentagon and Praetorian Guard? Or disruptive to fight against all that?
Liberal Leader Peter Dutton has likely sealed his political fate by opposing the Voice referendum and maintaining the Coalition's tradition of fear and hate. read now...This week is a big data week. Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released of the latest labour force data (April 13, 2023) – Labour Force, Australia – for March 2023. The March result is weaker than February’s strong outcome but still relatively robust. Employment rose with a bias towards full-time work and kept…
Russell Targ, American physicist, parapsychologist and author of nine books dealing with the scientific investigation of psychic abilities, talks to IA about the unlimited potential of 'remote viewing'. read now..."We've upped our quarterly sales targets"
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Philosophers are not the only cultivators of wonder.
“We haven’t even had Christmas yet and they’re already shoving Easter down our faces"
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Thomas Edsall has a long piece on the radicalization of the GOP. This is the point most people don;t want to admit: Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the Federalist Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “minority authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government. Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email: These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote, Skocpol did not pull her punches: There are a number of factors that confirm Skocpol’s analysis. First and foremost, the Republican Party’s commitment to democratic values and procedures has been steadily eroding over the past two decades — and the momentum has accelerated. The brakes on extremism are failing, with Donald Trump gaining strength in his bid for renomination and the continuing shift to the right in states like Tennessee and Ohio.
Prosecutor forced to accept her blue badge claim was wrong – but accuses pro-Palestinian activist of making mobile call while he was locked up with no phone and causes fury after bypassing proper cross-examination An apparently key plank in the prosecution’s case against Jewish activist Tony Greenstein – one of five people on trial for […]
Parasites, weather, and luck can play a role in determining whether some animals are male or female.
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Educators are striking at New Jersey’s state university, which has pumped $246 million from its endowment into high-fee hedge fund investments since 2020.
The Liberal Party, under Dutton, is completely out of step with modern Australia and it is no surprise that it is rapidly imploding. read now...This is the most exciting time in the history of vaccines. It took many, momentous, sequential discoveries over at least 3-4 decades to get here. That we were able to get Covid vaccines in 10 months from sequencing the virus with over 70,000 participants in randomized trials and 95% efficacy vs symptomatic infections (and hospitalizations and deaths) is all too often taken for granted. I had never thought that would have been possible, but now I understand how it was achieved. It has been exhilarating to see all the work from many labs around the world culminate in such a rapid succession of success stories, with many more to come. That’s fantastic news. Unfortunately, there is a large movement gaining steam in America to ban vaccines. The proponents are ignorant and delusional but they have powerful friends. Imagine what could happen if the new rule that the federal judge in Texas just pulled out of his hat in the abortion pill case stands. It would mean that courts could decide that vaccines are dangerous and … ban them. Don’t think it couldn’t happen.
The world’s conspiracy nutbags are abuzz with excitement after US space agency NASA announced it would be faking its first moon landing since the early 1970s. “Back when we first faked the moon landing we did it with a computing... Read More ›