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A week’s worth of gun violence seems to have whetted the radical right’s eliminationist appetite—and much of it appears, once again, to be directed at the LGBTQ community:
In their obsession with Trump’s win/loss record and their desperate search for “moderate” Republicans, journalists whitewash GOP candidates who paved the way for Trumpism and, ultimately, seek the same end—minority rule—by only slightly different means.
Beijing seeks to reignite interest in onshore debt in face of economic slowdown
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we look at some of the big questions in physics from biological and philosophical points of view.
Katie Robertson is a philosopher of science at the UK’s University of Birmingham and she explains why philosophers are interested in physics and how they approach some of the big questions in the field. Robertson also talks about her research on the microscopic origins of the second law of thermodynamics.
Keeping to our philosophical theme, the molecular geneticist Johnjoe McFadden talks about his latest book Life Is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Unlocked the Universe. Based at the UK’s University of Surrey, McFadden also chats about the burgeoning field of quantum biology and how scientists are discovering that quantum mechanics can play important roles in living organisms.
- Katie Robertson and Johnjoe McFadden are speaking at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival. The event is being held in Hay-on-Wye, UK, on 2–5 June. If you cannot be in Hay, the festival will be streamed online.
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In all of physical law, there’s arguably no principle more sacrosanct than the second law of thermodynamics — the notion that entropy, a measure of disorder, will always stay the same or increase. “If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations…
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: May 26, 2022 ~ On Tuesday, the New York Fed’s trading desk released its annual report showing what it was up to in 2021. The New York Fed is the only one of the Federal Reserve’s 12 regional Fed banks to have a trading desk operation with speed dials to Wall Street’s trading houses, so we’re always interested in reading the “official” version of what’s been happening there. The report is a deeply sanitized version of the facts on the ground. (For example, there is nothing in the report to indicate that the New York Fed has established a second trading floor near the futures exchange in Chicago.) However, there is one paragraph in the newly-released report that took our breath away. It reveals that the New York Fed’s trading operation (officially called the System Open Market Account or SOMA) currently owns 38 percent of … Continue reading →
The inventory “elephant in the room” shouldn’t be ignored, says SocGen’s Albert Edwards.
Li Keqiang urges officials to help companies resume production after Covid lockdowns
Climate tipping points in the Antarctica, the Arctic and the Amazon are at risk of being reached before or at the current level of global warming of 1.2 degrees Celsius, requiring a “major rethink” of global climate goals and the action necessary to achieve them, according to a recent report.