This Week’s Clippings
Fiona Hill has become the Putin-whisperer, but isn’t there a concentration risk in this kind of ‘go-to’ expert? What if she’s not always right, or loses her touch?
Sure, maybe this will be an inspiring event celebrating scientific advances. But it feels like another unlikely front in the culture wars.
Olympics Without Drug Testing Is Coming Courtesy of Peter Thiel — InsideHook
This, on the other hand, sounds genuinely mind-blowing and inspirational.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-ai-unlock-ancient-world-secrets/
Maybe if we taught people to parent they wouldn’t be paranoid about paedophiles in pizza parlours, or convinced that their kids might catch ‘gay’ from reading a book.
Why Don’t We Teach People How to Parent? — The Atlanticn
Sustainable energy is providing opportunities for fraud. But while this does sound awful, predicting the next financial crisis seems to be the Willie Wonka golden ticket of journalism
The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be On the Verge of Collapse | TIME
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-uk-wind-farms-overstate-output/
Sometimes it’s hard to be a wishy-washy, hand-wringing liberal…
In sixpence non-the wiser news, I still don’t understand heat pumps.
Infographic: Heat Pumps Are Thermodynamic Marvels — ASME
Sometimes middle-aged blokes have to separate the things which make something sound insufferable and the parts of it that may do some good.
What to know about the ‘cozy cardio’ fitness trend | AP News
