Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
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08/25/2022
White House Pushes Journals to Drop Paywalls on Publicly Funded Research
The policy, hailed by researchers as “transformational,” will be fully in place by 2026 and make publicly financed research available immediately at no cost.
08/25/2022
What Could Go Right? The oximeter problem
They don’t work as well for everybody—yet.
08/18/2022
Huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones discovered in Spain
Archaeologists says prehistoric site in Huelva province could be one of largest of its kind in Europe.
08/16/2022
Throw Up, Turn Out & Believe
Words like chit-chat, pitter-patter and wishy-washy are formed that way for a reason beyond the pleasing way that they sound. The vowel change actually signifies something more meaningful to our human way of thinking.
08/16/2022
Local wind and solar jobs can counteract losses at retiring coal plants, U-M study finds
The wind and solar industries could fully replace the number of lost jobs at U.S. coal-fired power plants that are expected to close to meet emission-reduction targets, a recent University of Michigan study has found.
08/16/2022
Scott Galloway: The Howard Stern of the Business World (or much more)?
Today's guest, Scott Galloway is arguably the most prolific thought leader in the business world today, with millions of views on his viral YouTube and videos on his various social media channels filled with business advice and predictions.
08/18/2022
Pennsylvania becomes the 27th state to restrict ‘conversion therapy’
Advocates and medical experts say the move could have a powerful impact on young LGBTQ people in the state and beyond.
08/18/2022
Beyond GDP: changing how we measure progress is key to tackling a world in crisis – three leading experts
It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product* (GDP) – the world’s headline indicator of economic progress.
08/11/2022
US/China power struggle, the global political balance, and your finances
“China's ability to grow in unprecedented fashion came because they had really cheap labor, and wealthy countries around the world were very happy to take advantage of that labor. Those two things are no longer true,” said Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
08/05/2022
Sea turtles crawl to new nesting record on Georgia coast
Rare sea turtles that spend summers laying eggs on Southern beaches have crawled to a new state record in Georgia.
06/27/2022
Academic Freedom’s Proxy Wars
This month the legal scholar Ilya Shapiro, hired to run the Center on the Constitution at Georgetown’s law school, announced in an op-ed that he was declining that post for fear of being set up for a “slow-motion firing.”
08/19/2022