Sunscreen for Lakes and Dams: Could a Thin Floating Layer of Nanomaterial Shield Water from Evaporation?
Geoengineering proposals, such as preventing water evaporation and reflecting sunlight, are set to increase. How to evaluate them?
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This American City Perfected Clean Water for Beer — Now It’s Fighting to Keep Cancer-Causing Nitrates Out of the Tap
Rural communities can treat water to reduce nitrates to safe levels. But what about well water polluted by runoff from fertilized fields?
Read more...Links 8/26/2026 Plus Iran War Note
Understanding Iranian Victory
Iranian strategic logic and why Tehran believes it has already won against the US.
Read more...Is Sikorski’s “European Legion” Proposal a Way for Poland to Deploy “Peacekeepers” to Ukraine?
A sketchy “European Legion” scheme which could deploy to Ukraine illustrates the huge gap between EU belligerent intent and ability to act.
Read more...Gates and Rockefeller Foundations’ Green Revolution Failing Africa
How 20 years of Gates and Rockefeller Foundations’ green revolutions initiatives have yielded little in Africa and even done harm.
Read more...Links 8/25/2026
Robert Urie: There Is No Bond Market Panic. Who Benefits from Claiming That There Is One?
You have been had! The current bond market media panic is a con! But cui bono, aside from clickbait-y sites?
Read more...Iran War: Bessent’s “The Nigger Gets It” Iran Sanctions Strategy as His Ex-Boss Druckenmiller Trashes His New Treasury Scheme; Iran Hits US Escorted Tanker as Strait of Hormuz Transits Fall Further
Today’s Iran war news: Even more Trump Administration flailing about in the form of Bessent’s Operation Economic Outcast.
Read more...Iran War: Bessent’s Flailing and the Misunderstood Coming, Strait of Hormuz “Closure” Accelerated Crisis
Today’s Iran war post: Bessant’s twin messes, neither of which he is managing well, plus some other sightings.
Read more...Small and Stuck: Why European Firms Can’t Scale
European businesses make it less often into the really big leads than their US counterparts. It’s not for want of trying.
Read more...Links 8/22/2026
Michael Hudson and Steve Keen: The Federal Reserve, the Constitution, and the End of US Hegemony
Steve Keen and Michael Hudson discuss empire, finance, and the coming crises.
Read more...How Living in a ‘Digital First’ World Has Made Our Lives Smaller
We are stuck in digital bureaucracies— more effective than real life ones at runarounds, time-wasting, and conditioning for resignation
Read more...‘Utterly Unsustainable’: Employer-Sponsored Health Care Costs Set to Keep Surging
Health care costs are out of control. Medicare for All would help but is not a sufficient remedy.
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