Part the First: Gene Editing as a Cure for Genetic Disease. The recent politics of American science has been depressing in the extreme, and last week I promised to cover recent good things in basic and clinical science. I can’t think of anything better than a baby has been treated successfully for a rare, lethal […]
Friday, May 23, 2025
Milei’s Controversial Plan to Turn Argentina into a Money Launderer’s Paradise
“The key is that nobody asks where you got your dollars.”
Anchored in Troubled Waters: Why European Union and Eurozone Membership Is Less Bad Than You Might Think
An analysis shows how the EU and Eurozone buffer some economic shocks.
China Is on Its Way to Becoming World’s First ‘Electrostate’
The implications of China leading in the proportion of electricity its energy use and pursuing even more electrification.
New SEC Chief on Board with Letting Retail Chumps Invest in Private Equity Even as Pros Like Kuwait Sovereign Wealth Fund Sound Red Alert
The SEC, in its munificence, is planning to allow more retail investors to be fleeced by private equity.
Thinking Being Offloaded to AI Even in Elite Medical Programs
The use of AI is severely degrading competence in advanced medical/biomedical degree programs in elite universities. Patients be warned.
A Harbinger? Tech Jobs Plunge in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Brings Condo Prices Drop Back to 2015, Single-Family Home to 2018
Software hiriing has been falling for years, and is finally affecting the economies in its heartland, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Debating Trump “Ambush” of South African President With “White Genocide’ Lies
n the consternation over Cyril Rhamposa’s failure to rebut Trump’s disgraceful diversion tactics regarding of Israel’s Gaza genocide
Rising Seas From Fossil Fuels Threaten Inland Migration ‘Never Witnessed in Modern Civilization’
A new study in Nature looks at one of the baked-in effects from just our current level of temperature increases: mass migration.
Whither mRNA Therapeutics Under the Current Regime and Beyond?
One of the more remarkable things I have ever seen has been the demonization of the middle component of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology in the past four years. The Central Dogma was formulated in late-1950s by Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA with James D. Watson: DNA makes RNA […]
Ideology-Driven, Inflationary Trump Tax and Tariff Policies Losing War With Bond and Currency Markets
ump’s trade, tariffs and tax schemes are already starting to come apart. And he seems to have no Plan B.
“Updating the Constitution”
On changes in the US governing regime, depicted as revisions to the Constitution.
