How many babies do we want: how many will we have?
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Among other things, the unlamented former autocrat Viktor Orban was one of
the leading proponents of pro-natalist policies, and more open than most
about t...
Why Ban Sports Bets?
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Sports betting is in the news today, with the rise of Kalshi and
Polymarket. Critics point to many issues, but I think most are excuses;
what really bother...
“Angel”
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It was 12 years ago when I posted the first video below of Sarah McLachlan
singing what is perhaps her most famous song, “Angel.” I came across it
again ye...
The Oil Grab Doctrine
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A deep dive into how oil control, sanctions, and financial fragility are
converging, as energy disruptions, debt structures, and geopolitical
strategy pu...
I'll Turn Bullish When This Happens
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*I will enthusiastically join the Bulls when we replace a
guaranteed-to-bankrupt-us Sickcare system and we rebalance the extreme
asymmetries of Capital and...
Feldspars
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Returning from a trip to New Mexico to explore some Puebloan ruins, I
picked up this beautiful chunk of labradorite in the town of Quartzsite.
This miner...
Why the rich don’t pay taxes
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from Lars Syll Beneath the civic ideal of taxation as a collective,
equitable endeavour lies an entrenched hypocrisy: the architecture of
modern tax codes ...
Manipulating My E-Books
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Earlier this week I started reading an ebook and was a bit irritated
because the book did not show me a table of contents. This seems to be a
regular thing...
Mario Harik: Playing to Win
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How does one engineer run 40,000 people with 10 daily numbers, zero
hobbies, and a $1 billion bet he made in his first year as CEO? Mario Harik
is the CE...
Before we start on quantum
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Imagine that every week for twenty years, people message you asking you to
comment on the latest wolf sighting, and every week you have to tell them:
I hav...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Interview: Cosmonaut Magazine podcast
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The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David HarveyMarch 27, 2026 Ira
and Rudy join renowned geographer David Harvey for a chat on his pedagogy
and hi...
A day at the University of Minnesota
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[image: Brick buildings on the left and right, a handful of students
walking down a pathway, and blue skies.]A sunny Monday at UMN.
Last Fall, I was once a...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Garmin watch faces
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I have recently been using Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to do a variety of
software projects. One was the completion of an ill-fated attempt to create
a custom w...
Rethinking climate change
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by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate
Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more
than t...
ANALYSIS OF THE UKRAINE WAR, 2026
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Bill Kerr Q&A format: What is the situation on the battlefield? The
situation changes everyday. To keep up to date follow some of the links
here to regular...
Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01
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Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it
first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice
Admiral Jo...
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