A eureka moment in the pub could help transform our understanding of the ground beneath our feet. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th December 2025 It felt like walking up a mountain during a temperature inversion. You struggle through fog so dense you can scarcely see where you’re going. Suddenly, you break through […]
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YouTube offered conflicting explanations for deleting the account of Robert Inlakesh, who covered Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
The post A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent. appeared first on The Intercept.
The Hahn problem stands as a profound and frequently ignored embarrassment for monetary economics. Frank Hahn, writing in the 1960s and 1970s, posed an apparently disarmingly simple question: how can money — intrinsically worthless printed paper — possess value in a perfectly competitive general-equilibrium economy? In the mainstream Arrow–Debreu world, individuals hold only assets that […]
Under former airline lobbyist Sean Duffy, the Transportation Department is rolling back consumer protections for travelers.
Based on what Doctor Who Showrunner and 2026 Christmas Special writer Russell T. Davies shared, the BBC really likes what he has planned.
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 20 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues, 9 postdoc positions, 4 job openings, 3 PhD scholarships, a course, and an award in economic sociology, political economy, and broadly related fields, with deadlines […]
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The server migration is complete, and DNS propagation is underway. If the posts you see suddenly changed, that’s why. As I wrote yesterday (in a disappeared post) most comments from yesterday after the snapshot used for the migration are taken are gone as the server was migrated from that snapshot of the site. Any comments […]
With Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery making headlines, we examine how Netflix or HBO MAX could play a role in the future of Doctor Who.
Coffee workers see the money, thousands score a permanent basic income, an alleged Democratic turncoat feels the heat, and a city adopts radical housing reform.
. Var vi har Timbrohögern och liberalerna i den här frågan vet vi sedan länge. Vad som däremot förvånar är att en annars så sansad ekonom som Lars Calmfors tydligen valt att ‘sälja ut’ sitt anseende och pondus i den här typen av viktiga samhällsekonomiska frågor genom att medverka i en ‘utredning’ finansierad av Stiftelsen […]
Most people in a recent survey saw sharks as neutral, coinciding with a global treaty to protect declining species
The post Are We Finally Over the “Jaws Effect?” appeared first on Nautilus.
Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
The post ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video appeared first on The Intercept.
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
The post Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them appeared first on The Intercept.
As part of fixing the site I’m migrating to a new service provider. A snapshot has been taken of the site from earlier today. That means this post will probably disappear tomorrow, and I will not be approving any comments till the site migration completes, except perhaps on this post, if I did, they’d likely […]
The calls of our closest living evolutionary cousins still hit an ancient target in the human brain
The post When a Chimp Screams, What Do You Hear? appeared first on Nautilus.
Yet another peril of a teeming low Earth orbit
The post Satellite Photobombing Is Disrupting Space Telescope Astronomy appeared first on Nautilus.
Pond frogs nonchalantly dined on the venomous insects, hinting at special mechanisms that help the amphibians avoid pain—and grisly deaths
The post Watch a Frog Eagerly Munch on a Murder Hornet appeared first on Nautilus.
Season’s Greetings from the Mortons!
We know many of you look forward to opening your mailbox each December to receive the Morton annual Christmas card and extensive family newsletter. It brings us no good tidings to let you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to paywall it.
As the years have gone by, the letter has grown in scope. When we sent the first Christmas newsletter, we were just a two-person operation in a small home in Middlebury. Now we have to cover nine busy family members across four states. And sometimes Jessica has a boyfriend. It’s a big operation, and Clare had to learn Microsoft XL or whatever it’s called.
Everybody on our list will receive the Morton Christmas Card featuring a candid photo of us down by the lake, wearing matching outfits. And while we love everyone who receives our card, those who subscribe and support our family’s essential end-of-year work will get even more of our love.
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Test your knowledge of extrajudicial kill lists, free-range parenting, and other issues that really matter.
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching l’Etabli, the film of Robert Linhart’s book (which I own but have never read). It is an arresting depiction of the brutality of the assembly-line and the racalialised hierarchies at work in the factory. The theme of the film is of a Maoist cadre from an […]
Array of camera traps captures surprising images of tigers in the wild
The post Selfies of Endangered Sumatran Tigers Expose a Robust Population appeared first on Nautilus.