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Lake Nyos, which killed more than 1,700 people when it degassed in 1986, holds about 0.15 km³ of water. Kivu…

The really surprising thing is that it isn’t higher. People are finally losing faith in the European Union’s ability to…

Today’s Iran War update starts with a thousand words worth of NY Times front page from Thursday evening. Not a…

[Today’s Iran War post launched largely complete but I had to run out. So any updates will come in comments]…

[Today’s Iran war update fired before complete because an overly dynamic situation today as some tech glitches slowed your humble…

In February 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented President Donald Trump with an unusual gift: a gold-plated pager. The…

You really needed to search for it. Every mainstream account of Volkswagen slashing another 50,000 jobs in Germany made no…

Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes Nature (Dr. Kevin) A Brief History of…

Yves here. Jospeh Busby calls out the considerable hypocrisies in how nuclear weapons states approach nonproliferation, such as changing nuclear…

[Today’s Iran war post uncharacteristically launched as final as it can be today] We said from the outset of the…