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Coffee Break: AI in Healthcare and Science, the Nature of Charisma, and a Cure from a Mouse to a Patient

Part the First: Algorithmic Intelligence in Clinical Medicine. From the article This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here’s how it

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BRICS 2025: Propaganda and the Illusion of Change

I’m writing this from Rio de Janeiro, where I’m covering the BRICS 2025 summit as a member of the press. There are over 400 journalists

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The Inevitable Militarization of Space?

Yves here. This is a workman-like overview US, Russian and Chinese space initiatives. I suspect this topic is of keen interest to some readers who

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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Stab in the Back

As the war in Ukraine moves toward an ugly conclusion unfavorable to the U.S., I anticipate the appearance of a common propaganda phenomenon following lost

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Centuries-Long History of Russophobia Opens the Doors to Cold War 2.0

Yves here. Americans, who typically have the memories and historical knowledge of goldfish, likely attribute the ease of whipping up Russophobia with the red scares

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The UK Aims to Entrench Its Influence in Estonia in Order to Lead the Arctic-Baltic Front

Yves here. A few months back, John Mearsheimer pointed out (IIRC on Judge Napolitano), that even when Russia won the war in Ukraine, the war

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Links 7/5/2025 | naked capitalism

Dear patient readers, Forgive me for this odd appeal, but I am so sick of fake products. I just had my cell phone ring when

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Coffee Break: Ancient Food Facts, Cancer Therapy, the Conscious Brain, and Biohacking with Biotech…Plus Thomas Jefferson

On this Independence Day in one country in North America a few notes on life outside current politics, scientific and otherwise. Part the First: The

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Trump’s Neo-Stalinist Pentagon Photo Purge

Yves here. Trump’s minions are in the process of re-writing, or perhaps more accurately, re-imaging US history so as to downplay and even eliminate the

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The Plebeian Council as an Example for Modern Citizen Empowerment

Yves here. Since (at least in the US) we are going into a long holiday weekend, a post on the quasi-democratic Roman institution of the