- Read this update on cyberwar between the US and China, which is “cold” but could easily go “hot.”
- Are American teens exporting their angst to other English-speaking teens? Read more.
- Read: No amount of adaptation to climate change can fix Miami’s water problems. Related: In the US each year, heat kills more people overall than do tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods combined—and heat deaths have been increasing. Read more about measuring heat (wet bulb, etc.)
- Read: Brits are “done” with Brexit but Brexit is not done with them.
- Read how “divestment activists” harm the arts without making any progress towards their goals: “This smells like activism aimed less at global warming than the warm glow of moral smugness.”
- Canadian pensions made excellent returns on real estate investments, but now they are not. Read more.
- Read: (US) Federal workforce-training programs prepare people for dead-end jobs that no one wants.
- Listen to Professor Dunbar discuss the “natural scales” of our relationship networks.
- David Brooks writes an excellent counter-point to the widely held belief that “only the young innovate.” Turns out that older folks have a few of their own tricks, relying on diversity, curiosity and wisdom.
- I agree: LLMs (AIs) now write lots of science. Good.