The Washington Post Opinion title: Biden’s industrial policy is missing a key ingredient: Allies By: the Editorial Board Date: 19 June 2023 "The era of unfettered free trade is over. There’s bipartisan sentiment in Washington to build what national security adviser Jake Sullivan has called a “new consensus” around “a modern industrial and innovation strategy.”...
The Economist title: The rich world’s housing crunch is far from over The Economist subtitle: Markets can be split into three camps: early adjusters, bullet-dodgers and slow movers Date: 2 April 2023 "At times during the long boom that followed the global financial crisis of 2007-09, it seemed as if house prices would never stop rising. Sales surged as a cocktail of...
TechXplore title: New system retrofits diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen By: Neil Martin, University of New South Wales Date: 7 October 2022 "Engineers from UNSW Sydney have successfully converted a diesel engine to run as a hydrogen-diesel hybrid engine—reducing CO2 emissions by more than 85% in the process. The team, led by Professor Shawn Kook from the...
GeoPolitical Futures title: China and Russia’s Strategic Problem By: George Friedman Date: 16 August 2022 "The war in Ukraine, now about 6 months old, is strategically important for a variety of reasons. If Russia defeats Ukraine and takes control of the country, its forces will be on the border of Eastern Europe. A Russian presence on Europe’s border would...
Several articles express that the Western sanctions, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, mark the end of globalization (eg, Axios). I tend to agree with that. Hence, my blog's title: what's next after globalization? See Wikipedia for illustration. To a large extent, these changes are like swing of a pendulum. This results in swings between (amongst others):...
Some people believe in reincarnation. I do not. In my view, it's mathematically impossible in case of a growing population. Things get complicated when you start adding restrictions on which births are reincarnations and which births are not. In such a case, the mathematics of reincarnation might work. According to Wikipedia the definition is as follows:...
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