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China has apparently made a big nuclear fusion breakthrough. If true, how long would it take to commercialize it?

~ Politics, syndemics; Democrat Inner Party considered as a wretched hive of scum and villainy; new RCP polling averages ~

Persistent political and public health failures expose us to pandemics, while vastly underestimating their long-term health effects.

Why a Trump win in November may make less difference to the future of the war in Ukraine than many assume.

After five years of overseeing creeping digital censorship, corruption, economic decline, war and institutional support for genocide, Von der Leyen has been given five more years to do more of the same, or worse. In late October, I posited that the walls may finally be closing in on EU President Ursula von der Leyen. The […]

Some climate experts say biomass start-ups will limit global warming, but major questions remain.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; A former Navy SEAL takes a view on Trump’s assempted assassination; the Republican National Convention and J.D. Vance; unelecting Biden: irresistible (albeit private) force, immovable (albeit ill) object; Marimekko patterns online. ~

New investigation reveals unequal access to life-saving meds across Europe thanks to Big Pharma system that favors the rich

The Biden political survival watch has resumed.

Many of the wealthy have taken to recoiling against hypertrophied houses, although they don’t ‘splain why very well.

A new report, Exporting Extinction, delves into the economic and political drivers of species-destroying resource exploitation.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; Crooks remains an enigma; unelecting Biden: irresistable force, immovable object; Republican National Convention and J.D. Vance; how to sing ~