March 25, 2022

Leftovers in prehistoric pots let scientists peek into the kitchen of an ancient civilization.



The Worst Movie Review Ever Written Is Still Poisoning the Air. I remember that review; it still haunts me.



E.U. Takes Aim at Big Tech’s Power With Landmark Digital Act.



Water for All.



U.S. to accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.



The Middle East’s food crisis spells disaster.



March 24, 2022

Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups Are Less Electable.



Casual acquaintances disappeared from the lives of many during the pandemic — to the detriment of our happiness. Libs say it’s fine, no one needs friends, Covid is all that matters.



Researchers find an ongoing commitment to pandemic behaviors. They call it ‘long social distancing.’



In the medieval era, when a thinker successfully claimed divine revelation, he placed his words beyond dispute. Only the hopelessly benighted or demonically inspired could doubt him. In recent decades, the claim of “science” achieves a similar result.



People are refusing to put their lives on hold.



We cannot keep cutting and limiting the liberties of the entire population just because 10 percent of those over 60 are not willing to be vaccinated. That is how you do it.



Alcohol-Related Deaths Spiked During the Pandemic, a Study Shows.



Google Routinely Hides Emails From Litigation By CCing Attorneys, DOJ Alleges.



March 20, 2022

It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.



America’s Energy Security Is Falling Apart.



Only NATO Can Save Putin.



‘Limited’ Tactical Nuclear Weapons Would Be Catastrophic. Ya think?



Why the skies over Ukraine have proven so deadly for Russian pilots.



Biotechnology Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. It’s Inexcusable.



Economic complexity emerges as a new restraint on wars of conquest. Doubtful.



March 19, 2022

NASA releases first image from an in-focus Webb telescope.



Why It’s So Hard to Face the Threat Posed by Nuclear Weapons.



A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater.



How Bones Communicate With the Rest of the Body.



A national plan to kill public schools.



How Dunkirk Inverts Classic WW2 Movie Moments.



The western elite is preventing us from going after the assets of Russia’s hyper-rich.



March 17, 2022

The problem of pathocracy.



More Than 11 Billion Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker.



How Life as a Trucker Devolved Into a Dystopian Nightmare.



Cannibalistic Toads Reveal ‘Evolution in Fast Motion,’ Study Finds.



Masks (in memoriam). What I learned from our two-year social experiment.



The Identity Cult. On the mass conversion of our institutions.



The Fed got inflation badly wrong — and now it admits there’s no quick fix.



The true COVID-19 death toll may be 12 million higher than official numbers state: study.



The Inflation Hits Just Keep Coming, Raising Stakes for the Fed.



Americans Make Huge Efforts to Keep up with Raging Prices.



Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored.



March 16, 2022

Apple supplier Foxconn shuts Shenzhen production amid COVID lockdown.



Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice.



Government Is Flailing, in Part Because Liberals Hobbled It.



‘I can’t move my car’: Americans struggle as vehicle expenses rise.



Why This is the Most Reckless Fed Ever, and What I Think the Fed Should Do to Reverse and Mitigate the Effects of its Policy Errors.



Improving Ventilation Will Stop More Than Covid-19.



Inflation or “corporate greed”? Meat prices increased by double digits during pandemic.



Putin and Trump have convinced me: I was wrong about the 21st century.



These schools did less to contain covid. Their students flourished.



No, you can’t really tell if someone is lying from their facial expressions.



A monthly look at average rent price trends across the United States.



How Freedom and Dreams of a ‘Normal Life’ Died in Post-Cold-War Russia.



GOP’s violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention.



The way in which the U.S. disclosed intelligence ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could drastically change geopolitics in the future.



The Ladder, The Sphere And The Rhizome.



American Parents Are Ridiculously Stressed Out, Survey Shows.



The Coming Clarifications. We are facing choices we can no longer avoid.



How to Lose Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Amazon.



March 14, 2022

100 women have now graduated US Army Ranger School.



Lake Powell is about to drop below a critical level never reached before, as drought rages on.



Where to Read the Nebula Nominees Free Online.



Video analysis reveals Russian attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant veered near disaster.



Tech’s dealmaking cry: Damn the lawsuits, full speed ahead.



Lobster Is So Expensive Right Now That Restaurants Are Taking It Off Menus.



Reaching for the High Frontier.



The Weakness of the Despot.



Don’t worry about de-dollarization. It’s not going to happen. Though to be honest, a little would be a good thing.



Some general tank lessons from the Ukraine War.



IFVs are failing AGAIN.



March 13, 2022

“General Mud” Has Usually Been on Russia’s Side in War. Not This Time.



Evidence Meltdown. The green movement has misled the world about the dangers of radiation.



Thieves in the Night: A Vast Burglary Ring From Chile Has Been Targeting Wealthy U.S. Households.



Look out — this inflation forecast is now flashing red.



We call on Biden to reject reckless demands for a no-fly zone.



What the science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war between NATO and Russia?



What things cost in Ancient Rome.



In a new stem cell study, a cure for Type 1 diabetes appears tantalizingly close.



Germany: State government conceals Gazprom’s connection to its controversial environmental foundation.



How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its power – and its threat.



L.A. County offering free anti-COVID pills to newly infected people at CVS stores.



March 12, 2022

Atlanta Fed’s Flexible Price CPI Soars To 20% In February, Biden’s Misery Index Now Highest In Modern American History.



US Inflation Soars To 7.9% YoY In February As Gasoline Prices Climb 38% YoY, Food Rises 7.9% YoY).



Kettle logic.



The Magic of the Japanese Convenience Store Sandwich.



Texas Bans Consensual Sex.



Experts map out ‘new normal’ as US enters third pandemic year.



The New International Economic Order: A Reintroduction.



Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556).



WHOOSH, Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunges in February as Inflation Spreads Across Services, Fed Still Pours Fuel on It. T R A N S I T O R Y.



Beware the Never-Ending Disinformation Emergency.



The New Captain of the Endurance Shipwreck Is an Anemone.



March 11, 2022

Rundown: Western Anti-Tank Weapons For Ukraine.



Ukraine war piles pressure on global food system already in crisis.



Labor Shortages Shift to Higher-Paying Industries, “Quits” Decline for Second Month but Still in the Astronomical Zone.



How to take on the Russians and win – by a former Cold War soldier. This is how you do it. If you gotta do it.



I was a nuclear missile operator. There have been more near-misses than the world knows.



Chloe Cherry says being a porn star cost her friends. Then they weren’t friends.



Putin proves my point. Whatever it is. Great piece.



Ukraine war mystery: What’s wrong with the Russian military?



Capitalism Subverts Community.



Fitch’s paradox of knowability.