250 years ago today Adam Smith gave the world a fantastic insight. That order, cooperation and prosperity are not ordered from above by priests or chiefs but emerge from the social interactions of ordinary people. It’s the most revolutionary and benign idea ever proposed.

This proves my point exactly. Norway has gone 98% green domestically, powered by hydroelectric (which is unique to its geography), while remaining one of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas. Its fossil fuel exports have surged since the Ukraine war. Norway is already

Social media turns us into very strange creatures. A senior actor I once worked with lost his wife a year or two ago. She was an actor too. When she passed away, the images from that time were heartbreaking. The media, as it always does, circled close. There were interviews,

So, we are all salves of the Judiciary? Me Lords basically are above the law?

greek dev 🇬🇷 vittorio Verified: The story is true. Sydney tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham (data/ML expert, no formal bio background) spent ~$3k sequencing his rescue dog Rosie's mast cell tumor DNA. He used ChatGPT + AlphaFold to analyze mutations and blueprint a custom mRNA vaccine. UNSW RNA team

vittorio Hi mate, there are a few people here claiming this is fake news. Rose and I were on Aussie national television this morning: youtube.com/watch?v=COYSRb…

If you ask the grass, the zebra is the monster and the lion is the protector.

When Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, it was actually less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model - a system refined over 1,400 years with epicycles precisely tuned to match observed planetary positions. It took another 70 years before Kepler, working from Tycho

Emmanuel Rincón This is coming from someone that spent 3 decades in the food service and hospitality industry. Because of inflation, a lot of food served to the public is overpriced and underwhelming in quality and flavour. Tipping prompts and expectations have gotten damn right rude. If I was

“A gallon of jet fuel contains 34 kilowatt-hours of energy in a package weighing six pounds. A lithium-ion battery storing the same energy weighs 250 pounds. That density gap is why every military on earth runs on liquid hydrocarbons, why every container ship crossing the Pacific

For idiots like D RAJA.

We're not going to cross the Atlantic ocean. 1. No one has any idea how far away the nearest land is. It could be thousands of miles! 2. Surely we can just build faster caravels? The problem is that wind can only push you so fast. 3. There are no landmarks out on the ocean.

JUST IN: Scientists built bacteria that EATS cancer from the inside out. The future of cancer treatment isn't a drug. It's a living organism that devours tumors from the inside. Here's how it works: Solid tumors have a dead center. No oxygen. No blood flow. Just dead cells and

Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card on the problems with how religion is portrayed in current fantasy and science fiction: "In our culture, intellectuals have become so uniformly a-religious or anti-religious that our fiction, with few exceptions, depicts religious people in

One of the biggest reforms Free Societies need is to treat Banks as just another business. Stop prioritizing banks over other businesses and shareholders. Why should banks have first call on everything? Why can't a bank take a loss on a bad call?

What the Artemis II astronauts did over the last 10 days was a testament to their bravery. And the fact that they traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has, re-entered our atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph, and splashed down safely was a testament to human ingenuity.

China has provided about a $250 billion in subsidies to domestic auto producers. The entire bailout of the U.S. auto industry in 2009 cost $9 billion. We’re not pure capitalism, but China is weapons grade economic warfare in their efforts to artificially lower the cost of

Taste Atlas, what in the actual name of culinary heresy is this?! Three Indian dishes crack the top 50 best breakfasts in the world, and they’re Misal Pav at a suspiciously generous 18th, Paratha slumming it at 23rd, and Chole Bhature wheezing in at 32nd? I mean, come on! I

Recent observation : middle class housing society uncles bark more than stray dogs!