But It Might Blow Up the World BY JOSHUA FRANK Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com I awoke on December 13th to news about what could be the most significant scientific breakthrough since the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first Covid vaccine for emergency use two years ago. This time, however, the achievement had…
Jimmy Kimmel tonight got uproarious laughter from his audience when he mocked the lackluster announcement by the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that they have now moved the second hand of their Doomsday Clock to within 90 seconds of midnight (destruction of our civilization by nuclear war or…
by Jake Bittle, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here In early 1862, a storm of biblical proportions struck California, dropping more than 120 inches of rain and snow on the state over two months. The entire state flooded, but nowhere was the deluge worse than in…
To those of you who feel that because Putin is evil, we should never negotiate with him, that to negotiate with him is to reward him for his evil acts, I ask you this: Would you have advised John Kennedy not to negotiate with Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, because that would have…
Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean. Yet, most of the state remains in drought. All that runoff in the middle of…