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Sunscreen for Lakes and Dams: Could a Thin Floating Layer of Nanomaterial Shield Water from Evaporation?
Yves here. Yours truly has Luddite, or more politely, risk-averse tendencies, and so the idea of geoengineering gives…
Someone Stupid Heads From South Carolina to DC
The South Carolina special election to replace the late, great, peace-loving US Senator Lindsey Graham was held last…
This American City Perfected Clean Water for Beer — Now It’s Fighting to Keep Cancer-Causing Nitrates Out of the Tap
Yves here. This post uses Chippewa Falls as a case study in how a vigilant municipality took steps…
Imperialist Realism and American Empire
“May you live in interesting times.” So says the apocryphal Chinese proverb that may well have been more…
Russia’s Arctic Route | naked capitalism
Yves here. Readers were very receptive to and impressed by the first post by Joseph Busby of Reality…
The Modern West Belongs to Valle-Inclán’s Esperpento, Not Nolan’s Odyssey
“Classical heroes reflected in concave mirrors produce the Esperpento,” declares Max Estrella, the tragicomic, impoverished poet of Bohemian…
