With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
Friday, January 05, 2024
From Jenna Orkin
Report: Trump businesses received $7.8 million in foreign payments during presidency
Revived Plant from Pleistocene Era
Another covid wave hits U.S. as JN.1 becomes dominant variant
• Scientists have finally invented heat-controlling circuitry that keeps electronics cool.
Ongoing research shows electrical vagus nerve stimulators could relieve some long COVID symptoms.
Stars don't spin more slowly as they age, as astronomers previously thought. Instead, they curtail their magnetic activity and spin at the same speed for billions of years.
• Russia and China seem to be teaming up to control the Arctic.
Neri Oxman, the wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, admitted to failing to properly credit sources in portions of her doctoral dissertation after Business Insider published an article finding that Oxman engaged in a pattern of plagiarism similar to that of former Harvard president Claudine Gay.
More than 200 people have been named in the Jeffrey Epstein documents, so far. Less than a dozen were accused of engaging in sexual behavior.
An Open Letter to the American Psychiatric Association Regarding the Publication of Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care
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