Friday, October 09, 2026

Why is the bond market in rurmoil?

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I keep reading articles about bonds without really understanding them. "Spiralling chaos from the bond market", we are told , ...

Nuclear fusion no closer to a working model, but generating lots of spagghetti

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I have always been, and I remain, skeptical about the dramatic claims made by nuclear fusion energy developers . From time to time, a glowin...
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

Revelations of separatist leaders' deals with America rattles Albertans

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As Quebec votes in a separatist government (albeit only a minority government, with a much weaker mandate than was widely expected), Alberta...
Monday, October 05, 2026

Trump's AI rebranding just more smoke and mirrors

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As a new CNN/SSRS survey concludes that the vast majority of Americans are very concerned about AI and the way it's being developed, Pr...
Saturday, October 03, 2026

Christa Pike on life support is the mother of all ironies

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I'm sure everyone has heard about the "failed execution" of Christa Pike in Tennessee this last week.  Incidentally, "fa...

Has Samuel Alito left his retirement too late?

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US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito - a man whose extreme right-ring political views make even Donald Trump look like a moderate, and who ...
Friday, October 02, 2026

The case for replacing diesel in heavy-duty trucking

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As diesel prices reach record levels , and the idiot-in-chief in the White House threatens to ban American diesel exports to the internation...
Monday, September 28, 2026

Is AI really an existential threat?

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I don't remember reading the word "existential" so frequently since I made my Basics of Philosophy hobby website many years a...