Part the First. A Few Words in Response to the Excellent Commentariat of Naked Capitalism. No one knows better than I that funding of science in the United States is hit or miss. My overall average flirts with the Mendoza Line, which is not so bad. For most I do not miss the grant treadmill/lottery, […]
Read more...Our warfare focused Coffee Break: the defense contractor racket – what it is and how to stop it
Read more...The leaders of the three largest countries in Western Europe (excluding Russia) are acting like tyrants as their economies implode.
Read more...Part the First. Convergence and Consensus in Science, or and how to interpret scientific results in context. From Holden Thorp, the Editor-in-Chief of Science: Kathleen Hall Jamieson believes that scientists need to talk…about convergent evidence. “Unlike declarations that a consensus exists, a claim that convergent evidence exists honors science’s norms of critique and correction by […]
Read more...On April 22, unknown terrorists attacked tourists in the Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam, India, killing 25 of them. The attackers reportedly segregated the victims based on religion before executing Hindus. Like earlier terror strikes, such as the 2001 Indian Parliament attack, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the 2016 Uri attack, and the 2019 Pulwama-Balakot crisis, the […]
Read more...The Western Empire is dying; but, there are no Western leaders, particularly in Europe, who have any ideas on how to arrest the collapse. The ones we are cursed with can only see one way out and that is by going to war. It is not going to be an easy death.
Read more...As someone who has spent most of his working life as a scientific worker and later as an academic scientist, graduate supervisor, teacher, grant reviewer, and administrator, the current devastation being visited upon my colleagues and their institutions is sickening. I have never thought my work was more useful or more important than anyone else’s. […]
Read more...With the government at a loss as to how to arrest the decline of the UK, stupidity seems to have taken the place of sound policy
Read more...Our warfare focused Coffee Break: the dangers of militarizing space
Read more...Democracy is dying in Europe as governments become more authoritarian and a new cold war comes into being.
Read more...Our warfare focused Coffee Break: The promise, problems, and profitability of stealth technology
Read more...Britain really needs a new government as the current Starmer government appears to be leading the country off a cliff with their policie
Read more...Can medical science recover from the Powell memo and Project 2025 via slow science?
Read more...Our warfare focused Coffee Break: The bombing of Yemen, a story of pernicious foreign policy and misguided military action
Read more...The UK is attempting to set the rules for what and how information is served across the whole internet through the Online Safety Act.
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