Is free trade obsolete?
So we’ve had a little excitement about the US imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum and now we’re into a global frisson about the possibility
What’s really inside black holes?
The main act? Stephen Hawking is dead and we will all miss him. One of the reasons for missing him is that he really was
Is authoritarian leadership inevitable?
We’ve just seen China approve a lifting of term limits on their leader, an epochal decision. Clearly there’s a move to authoritarian leadership globally. As
How about “Nuclear Winter Olympics” World War 3 playoffs?
We’ve just had the latest Winter Olympics in South Korea. Of course it was overshadowed by the nuclear threats hurled at each other by the
Exercisers are the new 1%
So many articles about how good exercise is for you that it’s become positively nauseating. Even a confirmed curmudgeon like me can’t find anything wrong
Is blockchain a bubble – and compromised too?
Recently I have attended three conferences on widely divergent topics. Every one of them featured blockchain and what everyone was going to do about it