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Trump’s Canada and LatAm Policies Could Cost Him the Senate
The crude venality of the Trump administration blew up trade talks with Canada and are triggering a backlash…
How Riding the Subway as a Kid Changed the Way I See the World
Conor here: A paper last year from the Minneapolis Fed showed how income segregation in the US has…
Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)
Has the earth been visited by extraterrestrials? Are we alone? Despite no formal evidence for conscious life outside…
Iran War: Bessent’s Flailing and the Misunderstood Coming, Strait of Hormuz “Closure” Accelerated Crisis
[Today’s Iran war post launched before complete because reasons. Please return at 8:00 AM EDT for the final…
Iran War: Bloomberg Claims High Oil Flows Through Hormuz as Iran Threatens for Real Closure; Diesel Stress Rises as Canada Oil Exports to Fall Near Term; Investors Diss Bessent Treasury Meddling, Finger Inflation as the Issue
[Today’s Iran war post launched largely done but I had to go out. Please return at 8:30 AM…
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…
