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Naomi Oreskes - Volvo Environment Prize Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes, a world-renowned earth scientist and historian, is the laureate of the 2025 Volvo Environment Prize. She is recognized for her influential work on the history of scien...

Huge congratulations to Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes for winning the Volvo prize! She is a pioneer in unmasking the financial interests and methods behind climate science denial.
I’m proud to have published with her how Exxon knew exactly what they were doing.
www.environment-prize.com/laureates/na...

On this day 225 years ago, John Adams moved into the still-not-quite-complete White House, becoming the first president to occupy it. His blessing was carved into the State Dining Room mantel in 1945: "May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”

Cracks in the Credit Market Could Be a Warning for Wall Street How many cockroaches does it take to sink a ship? We may soon find out.

How many cockroaches does it take to sink a ship? Wall Street may soon find out.

Why Trump Turned to the Sewer The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign

Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Cautiously pesimistic 🙃

Nobel prize in medicine or chemistry?

Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation Yes, tariffs are hurting us. No, Trump wasn’t right.

So today's Substack about the impact of tariffs concluded:

"in many ways the level of the tariffs is less important than the huge uncertainty Trump’s policies have created. And that uncertainty hasn’t abated at all."

Ya don't say. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.

It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.

(Published May 2025)

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

We might be “experiencing an AI bubble,” Rogé Karma argues. “If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer.”

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
*** Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” 8/28/25 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

We are turning Earth into a unlivable Hot House Earth
Earth was about 2.65 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.47 degrees Celsius) warmer in 2024 than in the late 19th-century (1850-1900) preindustrial average.

The 10 most recent years are the warmest on record.
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...

The Road to MechaHitler Reality still has a well-known liberal bias

So I wrote yesterday about right-wingers claiming AI is communist, and how Musk's attempt to tweak Grok away from that made it go full Nazi 1/

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

The General Theory of Enshittification It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more

Good stuff: Paul Krugman's general theory of enshittification even includes a little dynamic programming model.

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.

Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

This is horrifying. The damage we continue to do to our children is conclusive evidence that we have failed as a society.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits

"Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that #ClimateChange will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits." www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-...

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.

"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Russia and China have e
been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

She Lobbied for a Carcinogen. Now She’s at the E.P.A., Approving New Chemicals. (Gift Article) Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.

By itself, this is certainly not the most important issue we're confronting right now. But it's emblematic of the pervasive, destructive, anti-science efforts.
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.

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Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

RIP, George Sheldrick of @unigoettingen.bsky.social and a legend of modern structural chemistry!

The impact of his accomplishments and generosity in sharing his programs for free with so many are an inspiration, in more ways than one…

Fantastic news. More countries should do the same.

This explains a lot. . .

The isolation of a planar pi-aromatic Bi5- ring in a cobalt-based inverse-sandwich-type complex has been reported in @naturechemistry.bsky.social.

CSD entry VUPBOB contains the heaviest analogue of the Cp anion synthesized.

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