I am learning more about economics than ever before. The US might simply go bankrupt if they can’t pay their interest anymore. “The currency’s dominance enables very high debts and deficits, meaning a plunge might spell disaster
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This Japanese MP (whose name is Shinji Oguma) absolutely nails it, and reflects what pretty all countries in Asia are thinking:
"When Japan negotiates with what [Trump] is saying it's akin to being extorted by a delinquent.
If Japan gives in, thinking
This is where we are right now: “Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your di…”
Source: WIRED
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A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.
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This energy storage technology is harnessing the potential of solar and wind power—and its deployment is growing exponentially.
Source: WIRED
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Another organization folds: The society is replacing its 30-year-old Scholars Program for minorities with a larger one that does not consider race
Source: Chemistry World
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The "privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended at a time of invasion. So I would say that's an action we're actively looking at," Miller told repo…
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The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.
Source: TechCrunch
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“When brain waves are in phase, meaning the peaks and valleys of the waves are aligned, local groups of neurons in the brain’s cortex can share information to produce conscious cognitive functions such as attention, perception and reasoning”. search.app/4kKALDgvtdE6UT…
This is rather vague. What happened? “…they were approached in January by a computer scientist with experience in materials science who questioned how the technology worked, and how a lab that he wasn’t aware of had experienced gains in innovation.” share.google/Y9suTuImeiqUVE…
This is just a very good Podcast with the always astute host Ezra Klein discussing with Margaret Atwood. Highly recommended.
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“OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco | TechCrunch.” Why build a datacenter the size of a city, that uses water and energy to cool it, in a desert? Soon someone will propose datacenters in space. techcrunch.com/2025/05/16/ope…