Over the last week, the precious metals market went through a meat grinder. Gold and silver went from moon shot to abrupt crash and back…

Part the First: Predatory or Not?  Over the past six years the biomedical literature has accumulated 494,547 scientific “publications” with “COVID” (case insensitive) somewhere in…

Yves here. Aside from the shaky state of the electrical grid being of interest to readers in potentially or actually afflicted areas of the US,…

Elon Musk, on paper the world’s wealthiest human, threatens to go supernova under the pressure of his appearances in the Epstein Files, porn accusations, his…

Escalation talk surrounding a potential U.S. bombing campaign against Iran rests on a familiar premise: that sufficient military bombardment can achieve decisive political outcomes. This…

The mask of unreality worn by the powers that be is slipping as the narrative wars escalate and collide with inconvenient realities like 3 million…

This 3D floor in Thailand tricks your senses into feeling movement while you stay still. 📹Daniyanizami11 pic.twitter.com/Og6hDPrkfz — Science girl (@sciencegirl) January 30, 2026 Bezos’s…

Yves here. As we have often noted, Paul Roger’s articles are a mixed bag. He often raises good issues but then is a prisoner of…

Part the First: Whalers in Brazil 5,000 Years Ago.  Whaling rightly has become anathema in this modern world, except in certain, very limited, circumstances.  But…

Oracle and TikTok are overshadowing the problems at Bari Weiss’ CBS News this week. Larry and David Ellison are attempting to create a massive multi-channel…

Metal Fans Unlikely To Cheat, Jazz Fans Are Boning Everyone According To A Study Metal in Action (Micael T) Welcome to the wild world of…

The power and security architecture of the Middle East—or West Asia—is undergoing a deep restructuring. Traditional explanations of regional politics—Sunni vs. Shia, Arab vs. non-Arab,…

New trend: Young people want a “perfect” anus Expressen via machine translation (Micael T). So anal sex is now preferred among heteros? If a Tree…

Part the First: We Live in Pluto’s Republic.  With apologies to the shade of Walt Disney, this was bound to happen eventually.  From Corey Robin,…

There are two mainstream versions of the U.S. abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro. The first: it was a brilliantly executed operation by the U.S.…