Scientists are trying to accelerate evolution to make plastics rot. A tiny new organism is showing them how. Sometime between 2010 and 2015, a tiny organism with an unusual appetite made a home in an industrial site near a bottle-recycling plant in Sakai, Japan. The site, located by a bustling port in one of the… Continue reading The race to save the planet from plastic
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Pete Buttigieg, Barack Obama, and the psychology of liberalism
Buttigieg is going for the “hope and change” voters. There was a word missing from the speech Pete Buttigieg gave in South Bend, Indiana, announcing his presidential campaign. It’s a word you heard twice in Bernie Sanders’s and Beto O’Rourke’s announcement speeches, nine times in Cory Booker’s, 21 times in Kirsten Gillibrand’s, 23 times in… Continue reading Pete Buttigieg, Barack Obama, and the psychology of liberalism
On Politics: Trump’s Trade Style Could Cost U.S.
Some business groups wonder if the president’s unpredictable style will undermine the role the United States has traditionally played in setting the global rules of trade. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/us/politics/trump-trade-agreements.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Bernie Sanders Has an Important Lesson for Republicans
The G.O.P. could really use a remarkably successful policy entrepreneur. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/opinion/bernie-sanders-republicans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Anti-Zionists Deserve Free Speech
The Trump administration bars a critic of Israel from America. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/opinion/omar-barghouti-bds-israel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
The Constitution’s “natural-born” defect
All American citizens should be able to become president. Previous essays in this series have addressed fundamental flaws in the Constitution: the ill-defined nature of presidential powers, the malapportionment of the Senate, the Electoral College. But I wish to draw my readers’ attention to a less central, but still important defect: the requirement, stated in… Continue reading The Constitution’s “natural-born” defect
US Government Admits It Doesn’t Know If Assange Cracked Password For Manning
An FBI agent admitted in a newly unsealed court document that the Department of Justice does not know whether Assange’s offer to help Manning came to fruition. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evy4ka/us-government-doesnt-know-if-assange-cracked-password-manning…
What Australia can teach America about health care
When I look at the Australian health care system, I see something kind of unusual: a hybrid of where the United States is now and where Bernie Sanders wants to take us. The Australians have a universal coverage scheme that leans more heavily on private insurance than most the other systems we talk about. The… Continue reading What Australia can teach America about health care
U.S. measles outbreaks show no signs of slowing down
This year’s measles cases have blown by 2018’s total, raising the specter that the disease could once more become endemic in the United States. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/us-measles-outbreaks-not-slowing-down-vaccines4…
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Mindful Commanders
US soldiers are receiving mindfulness training, a mindfulness proponent is running for president, and the Dalai Lama is discharged from the hospital after a health scare. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
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