How Iran Turned Oil Into the Empire’s Weak Point
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Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff explain how the Iran war has exposed the
economic limits of U.S. power, with oil prices, gold flows, Gulf alliances
and ...
Will gravity pull down the AI bubble?
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from Dean Baker I have written before on the AI bubble. The stock
valuations we are seeing now look a lot like the valuations we saw before
the Internet bu...
Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ substitutionary atonement
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We have another “Friday Flashback from 9 years ago.” The concept of
substitutionary atonement—something that Hitchens used to beef about—has
always confus...
Quantum Mechanics of the Inverse Cube Force Law
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In the last episode of my column in Notices of the American Mathematical
Society, we looked at a particle moving in an attractive central force
whose stren...
Will you heed my warnings NOW?
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Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences!
If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you
hit t...
How to create a Scratch extension
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A few years ago, I ran a workshop about how to create custom Scratch
blocks. I made a template repository, based on the Scratch Team repos, but
with a skel...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Stop and think
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In reply to Stop and think by Paolo Valdemarin This made me stop and think.
My company contains a well above average number of actual philosophers, 50%
of ...
Press Roundup from Mexico City
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La acelerada producción del capitalismo provoca deshumanización y deterioro
ambiental: David Harveypor Sebastián Campos RiveraBuzos de la noticiaAbr
15, 20...
CHI 2026 trip report: ay ay AI
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[image: wood latices hanging from the ceiling of a beige foyer.]The foyer
lattice of the International Barcelona Convention Center
There is never a good ti...
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...
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...
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...
Biological data storage
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Just a quick note on some probably unoriginal ideas I had about
categorizing biological data storage methods. While it’s important to note
that these are l...
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