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When it comes to assessing and preventing threats, we humans often act against our best interests. A lot of people avoid going to the doctor because they don’t want to get ‘bad news’—even if that means not catching something serious sooner. In six weeks I will turn 53. During most of that time on this planet I’ve been hearing about the dangers of global warming —later relabelled as ‘climate change’, supposedly because it is more scientifically accurate, although I suspect because it was less alarmist. In the 1980s barely anyone cared about this problem, because (a) it was either considered…
Two elite universities already tried protecting freshmen from hard truths – and walked it back. University of Michigan hasn’t gotten the memo. Source link
The Truths That Failed Jason Arday Source link
The Gaul of it! Source link
Twenty years ago, Will Ferrell’s stock car manchild presaged an overheated era of US culture Source link
Reinventing the Sabbath Source link
Christopher Nolan wants to tell a fundamentally different story than Homer told. Source link
The same pattern keeps repeating over and over again. U.S. military assets are moved into the Middle East and President Trump threatens to attack Iran harder than ever before. At the end of last week, I told my core supporters that everything was ready for a very large wave of airstrikes. But then as we have seen so many times before, Trump decided not to pull the trigger at the last moment and he claimed that Iran had asked to make a deal. And as we have seen so many times before, the Iranians denied asking for any sort of a deal…
Download Audio. Joe Kent joins the show again to discuss the risk of a major terrorist attack against Americans. He and Scott go through all the major Islamist groups around right now and weigh who poses the biggest risks of carrying out blowback terrorism. Discussed on the show: “The Islamic State in ‘Khorasan’: How it began and where it stands now in Nangarhar” (Afghanistan Analysts Network) The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali Soufan Joe Kent is a retired Army Special Forces soldier who served as the director of the National…
Lamakers will break for over one month this week — the Clarity Act may not get a vote before then. The long-awaited crypto Clarity Act may be further delayed as August recess fast approaches. Despite optimism last week from top crypto companies — like Coinbase — and backing from top financial institutions, lawmakers appear to be prioritizing other bills to vote on before their five-week break starting Thursday or Friday. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren was even quoted saying in a Sunday Punchbowl News report that “more people in the Senate are beginning to question crypto’s electoral invincibility.” Pro-crypto Republicans, such as Senator…