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How India’s Restructured Rocket Force Makes Conflict With China More Likely

How India’s Restructured Rocket Force Makes Conflict With China More Likely

On March 11, 2024, the Indian government announced that it had successfully tested an Agni-V ballistic missile with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) technology. According to India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation, multiple reentry vehicles were ...

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Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors

Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors

Most NFL general managers (GMs) are optimistic and displaying overconfidence today as they prepare for tomorrow’s ...

Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction

Cocoa hyperinflation is insane. The latest data from the futures…

‘I Worked For Abramovich?’: Soccer Players Were Owned By Oligarch Via Offshore Deals

Former Chelsea owner locked young players across Europe…

This Year’s Cicada Invasion Will Be Double The Trouble

For the first time in more than 200…

How The Pentagon Rewrote Pitch Perfect 3

Pitch Perfect 3 appears on the surface to…

Chinese Organized Crime’s Latest U.S. Target: Gift Cards

Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana…

Scientists Create Atomically Thin Gold With Century-Old Japanese Knife Making Technique

Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material,…

The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here

The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here

With the AI boom and green energy push fueling fresh copper demand, and with copper mines ...

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US Says Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Hazardous, Tells Polluters To Pay

US Says Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Hazardous, Tells Polluters To Pay

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday classified two so-called “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances, meaning those responsible for releasing them will have to pay to clean up contamination. This article was originally published by Insider Paper. The two chemicals,…

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How Debt To GDP Ratios Have Changed Since 2000

How Debt-To-GDP Ratios Have Changed Since 2000

  Government debt levels have grown in most parts of the world since the 2008 financial crisis, and even more so ...
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Ringside: How Much Water Will $30 Billion Buy?

Ringside: How Much Water Will $30 Billion Buy?

If raised, Shasta Dam could have been filled to capacity this year, and last year. This article was written by Edward ...
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How To Avoid Human Made Pandemics

How To Avoid Human-Made Pandemics

How do you pitch a news story about people agreeing rigorously with each other? That question was raised by a journalist during a report presentation at the UN by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Independent Task Force on Research with Pandemic Risks. This…

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Are Rents About To Crash?

Are Rents About To Crash?

America is in the midst of a housing crisis. If we listen to those concerned about housing affordability, rents are already too high and may only go higher. If we listen to those concerned about housing finance, panic sits just…

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11 Tech Trends To Watch In 2023

11 Tech Trends To Watch In 2023

It can be tough to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation. Each new year delivers the full spectrum of…

A Better Suburban House

A Better Suburban House

Social media has a way of drilling into your likes and shares. I did one google search for a non-stick omelet…

Something’s Gotta Give

Something’s Gotta Give

We’re at a fascinating juncture here in the markets. Stocks have sold off hard for a little over a year now…

Petrodollar On Shaky Ground Saudi Arabia Willing To Discuss Selling Oil In Other Currencies

Petrodollar On Shaky Ground; Saudi Arabia Willing To Discuss Selling Oil In Other Currencies

In a recent interview, Saudi Arabia Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said the country is open to discussing trade in currencies other…

Herbert Hoover Reconsidered

Herbert Hoover Reconsidered

In recent years, I have thought of Herbert Hoover as sort of an urban policy villan, thanks to his promotion of…

Out Of Control Tip flation Infuriates Consumers

Out-Of-Control ‘Tip-flation’ Infuriates Consumers

In a post-Covid world, the emergence of digital kiosk systems has allowed businesses to offer consumers a new tipping option. These…

Google Scrambles To Catch Up In The Wake Of OpenAIs ChatGPT

Google Scrambles To Catch Up In The Wake Of OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Google is one of the biggest companies on Earth. Google’s search engine is the front door to the internet. And according…

NASA Pentagon Developing Nuclear Powered Rocket For Mars Voyage

NASA, Pentagon Developing Nuclear-Powered Rocket For Mars Voyage

NASA is partnering with a Pentagon research agency to develop a nuclear-powered rocket engine in preparation for sending astronauts to Mars. This…

Cellular Reprogramming Extends Lifespan In Mice Longevity Startup Says

Cellular Reprogramming Extends Lifespan In Mice, Longevity Startup Says

Billions of dollars are pouring into longevity startups as a growing body of research shows that aging might not be as…

Microsoft Invests Billions In ChatGPT Firm OpenAI

Microsoft Invests Billions In ChatGPT Firm OpenAI

Microsoft on Monday said it had extended its partnership with OpenAI, the research lab and creator of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence…

Monetary Policy. Is The Fed Trying To Wean Markets Off Of It?

Monetary Policy. Is The Fed Trying To Wean Markets Off Of It?

Is the Fed trying to wean the markets off monetary policy? Such was an interesting premise from Alastair Crooke via the Strategic…

Dutch To Ban Unhealthy Designer Pets

Dutch To Ban Unhealthy Designer Pets

The Netherlands wants to ban pets such as flat-faced dogs and cats with folded ears, which look sweet but suffer “miserable” health problems,…

Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Anniversary Celebration 22 January

Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Anniversary Celebration 22 January

People of the world have united to outlaw nuclear weapons, building on incredible success in reducing nukes—from 50,000+ when I was…

Watchdog Seeks Harsher Penalties In Wake Of Abuse At Illinois Mental Health Center

Watchdog Seeks Harsher Penalties In Wake Of Abuse At Illinois Mental Health Center

The official cited investigations into a center for people with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities, where workers lied or conspired to…

Ruling: Oklahoma Turnpike Authority “Willfully” Misled Public To Force $5 Billion Expansion Project

Ruling: Oklahoma Turnpike Authority “Willfully” Misled Public To Force $5 Billion Expansion Project

The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (OTA) has spent the last year embroiled in several lawsuits, with plaintiffs alleging its plans for an…

Prediction Consensus: What The Experts See Coming In 2023

Prediction Consensus: What The Experts See Coming In 2023

In this, our fourth year of Prediction Consensus (now part of our more comprehensive 2023 Global Forecast Series), we’ve learned a few…

Deep Learning vs Reinforcement Learning

Deep Learning vs Reinforcement Learning

Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning are two of the most popular subsets of Artificial intelligence. The AI market was about $120 billion in 2022 and…

Real Hourly Earnings Decline For The 21st Straight Month

Real Hourly Earnings Decline For The 21st Straight Month

Inflation continues to eat up your paycheck. For the 21st month in a row, average hourly earnings failed to keep up…