Are you overthinking what you said? It’s your “lizard brain” talking to newer, more advanced parts of your brain Medical Xpress
If MMT is wrong, why is it better at predicting the economy and economic disaster? Dougald Lamont’s Substack
2,000-year-old psychedelic drug found in ancient Egyptian mug SciTech Daily
Climate/Environment
Cancer Deregulation Texas A&M Law Review
Giant gas plant turns heads to power mysterious $5 billion Louisiana data center Floodlight News
toilet
Town worries about safe drinking water after ‘Love Boat’ mysterious sinking: ‘Atrocious darkness’ New York Post
Newly identified chemical in drinking water is likely present in many homes and could be toxic, study finds NBC News
pandemic
There’s good news too…
Novavax just released animal data on its H5N1 vaccine.
It was effective both as a priming vaccine and as a single dose in addition to existing influenza vaccines in primates…
It is then administered intranasally and intramuscularly to mice.
Collecting data from the nasal cavity one by one… pic.twitter.com/8U31nVAQDU
— Don Ford – People’s Strategist – (@DonEford) November 22, 2024
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New study finds young and middle-aged adults have worse long-term COVID-19 symptoms than older adults Northwestern Medicine
Healthy Elbow Room: Social Distance in Neolithic Mega-Settlements Phys.org
China?
Huawei’s chip breakthrough leaves China’s Apple vulnerable Al Maydeen
Drifting in Southern Granta
old blighty
Beyond the rapidly growing world
Why does Labor believe in private equity?Financing the future
discord in europe
Miami investors are quietly trying to buy the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline WSJ
Europe is already facing the next energy crisis Bloomberg
Radek Sikorski wants to become president of Poland. Is my wife’s Trump bashing a problem? political
syrakistan
Patrick Lawrence: The ICC Warrant and the World It Announces Scheerpost
The Hague Invasion Act: Can the US invade the Netherlands to protect Israel? new arab
World rejects Israel’s ‘general’s plan’ for Gaza, so generals avoid plan Haaretz
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President Trump’s selection of Huckabee as ambassador to Israel is a victory for Christian Zionism. Here’s why: USA Today
The oldest “Jesus is God” inscription ever found in an Israeli prison, considered the biggest discovery and interesting engineering
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Merkava IV Barak Down: How Israel’s new and improved tank was designed to be nearly indestructible before being removed Military Watches
Yemen appears to have the upper hand in the conflict with the US
Massive Israeli airstrike destroys apartment complex in central Beirut The Cradle
Is Israel expanding its territorial control into Syria? responsible national strategy
A new war that’s not so cold war
The message the Biden administration took from the Russian IRBM missile attack is that Putin will escalate if the US/NATO fires ATACM missiles at Russia. That’s what Biden wants. So today, more US ATACMs are attacking Russia in hopes that President Putin will escalate further. https://t.co/Q1jovjU4gt
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) November 24, 2024
Joe Biden’s Ukraine ATACMS move is a gift to Trump — Veterans. general newsweek
Trump relies more on EU and UK to act as peacemakers than he realizes The Guardian
France condones Ukraine’s attack on Russia: “There is no red line” when it comes to defense assistance United24
Making the most of Ukraine’s freedom to attack Russia Royal Institute for Defense and Security Studies
A major NATO base in Europe that is within range of Russia’s Sputnik hypersonic missile. map:
Brink Scott Ritter Extra
Why it’s better to end with a whimper The New Indian Express
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Russia ‘likely’ to transfer submarine technology to China, North Korea: Indo-Pakom chief breaks through defenses
Russian weapon is a hit seller Marat Khairullin Substack
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Response to the American Machiavellian Candidate on Ukrainian Landmarks: International Dialogue Journal
Why Ukrainian soldiers came to Idaho to study nuclear forensics Defense One
Russians are taking Zelensky’s comments seriously.
Recently, the Russians attacked the legendary Yuzhmash with six high-explosive warheads, raising inter alia the following questions:
What is Yushmash?
Yuzhmash is the largest and oldest military space factory, during the Soviet era… pic.twitter.com/QHNqoGJQNg
— Patricia Mullins (@pati_marins64) November 23, 2024
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Has Denmark ever challenged the right of innocent passage? See Yi Peng 3 for Lloyd’s list
imperial collapse watch
GRAHAM: So, our allies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, if you try to help the ICC, we’re going to sanction you. pic.twitter.com/skSkAWiLp8
— Asyn (@Acyn) November 23, 2024
Trump administration transition
Labor unions focus on Chavez-Deremer’s record, “but Donald Trump is the next president” – a common dream
John Bolton objects to Trump’s choice of counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka The Guardian
President Trump has nominated Sebastian Gorka as senior director for national security policy. Below is a discussion about X Spaces. Special performers are: @aronjmate
– Gorka calls Putin a “KGB killer” who cannot reach a negotiated solution to resolve the Ukraine war. pic.twitter.com/MePBnOiJWI
— Michael Tracy (@mtracey) November 23, 2024
Postmortem in 2024
Branch, Suspended Gauntlet
The effect on Michigan voters was more pronounced pic.twitter.com/8siEur6Fn9
— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) November 22, 2024
Reorganization and legitimacy
Sandro Magister of the Vatican Church on the rise of the post-liberal right. post-liberal order
obama’s legacy
U.S. federally funded health insurance coverage. 23% of working-age adults in the United States are underinsured and 9% are uninsured.
health care?
How Lincare profited from a disastrous Philips respirator recall at the expense of patients ProPublica
supply chain
How supply chains fuel cross-border conflict at Chatham House in the Middle East
academy glove
Breaking the cycle: Against the militarization of neuroscience research logic
A.I.
Deadly and imminent: The Pentagon’s mad dash against Silicon Valley’s AI weapons Public Citizen
Why Ukraine has unmanned forces across its defense sector and what the United States can learn from it Center for Strategic and International Studies
Jailbreaking an LLM-powered robot is surprisingly easy IEEE Spectrum
basil
Meta removes over 2 million accounts related to pig slaughter scam CNET
Tesla Cybertruck owner discovers new weakness: Magnet Jalopnik
antitrust law
Google breakup proposal finally comes true, with tech giant Matt Stoller in court
class war
Humanoid robot Figure 02 impresses BMW factory with 400% efficiency upgrade Interesting engineering
Interview with David Hemson – Lessons from the South African Liberation Struggle African Political Economy Review
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