Donald Ducks out of the Free Market Any questions you might have about the leftward drift of Mr Trump’s economic policies are only confirmed as he starts trying to take control of interest rates and large companies like Lockheed Martin. We’ve two pieces here: the Guardian and NSBC which riff on both themes. Watch the video in the latter: it features economist Gillan Tett, as formidable an intellect as any currently offering their thoughts in the serious media at the moment .
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/25/trump-federal-reserve-lisa-cook-explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85N6X5jvK9g
Contemplating, Celebrating New Life #1 Creating entirely new life forms was once a dream of the more outre writers of Science Fiction. Now it seems very real indeed as this piece from the Mail, which has enormous implications for many fields from Medicine to astrobiologyBreakthrough as scientists create a new form life | Daily Mail Online
New pill aids HIV sufferers Once again our researchers have put up a piece from the Mail . But bloggers can’t be choosers, so we ran with it. This is no cure: but it keeps the virus at bay and so help thousands lead healthier and more productive lives Monthly pill brings hope in fight against world’s deadliest STI
The Heat is on An unexpected side effect of global warming is that it may be making us age faster. There’s an irony here: as most of the deniers fall into the -erm- ahem- more senior- sections of the population this may only impede efforts to control this runaway catastrophe Heatwaves make a Biological Clock Run Fast from Nature Briefing
| Repeated exposure to extreme heat events can accelerate the body’s ageing process. A long-term study of almost 25,000 people in Taiwan found that, for every extra 1.3 ℃ a person was exposed to, around 0.023–0.031 years was added to their biological clock on average — an extent comparable to that caused by regular smoking or alcohol consumption. The effect looks small, but cumulatively “can have meaningful public-health implications”, says environmental epidemiologist and study co-author Cui Guo. “Heatwave is not a personal risk factor, but a global concern,” she says. Nature | 4 min read Reference: Nature Climate Change paper |
Fearing the winds of change Peoples’ stated beliefs and opinions are often a guide to their deeper anxieties. A world view based on hyperconsumption and fossil fuels is now seriously archaic. This explains the deep angst ridden controversies that swirls around wind farms: they are huge visible reminder that we’ve been getting things seriously wrong for over one hundred years Here’s The Conversation
Contemplating Celebrating New Life-#2 You knew we were going to chose this one, didn’t you? Yes- Depeche Mode it is
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