Do Driverless Cars Hallucinate Electric Sheep?

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Waymo is operating driverless taxis in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco, partnering with Uber in Atlanta and Austin, and expanding into Miami and Washington DC soon.  read more »

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Beware the New Eugenics

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Visionaries, dreamers, and autocrats have long dreamt of reshaping humanity to their preferred model.  read more »

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The Big Beautiful Bill Torpedoes Big Solar & Big Wind

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Last November, I published 10 can’t miss predictions about the presidential election. One of my predictions was that if Donald Trump won another term in the White House, he wouldn’t repeal the alt-energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act. I wrote:  read more »

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Carney's Canada Will Devolve into Feudalism

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Canada may have severed its feudal ties less violently, but like America, it experienced far less sustained aristocratic domination than either of its two mother countries, France and Great Britain.  read more »

The Cruel Inhumanity of the YIMBY Movement

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A large and ever-expanding body of research demonstrates what anyone with a reasonable functional frontal cortex knows instinctively: Human beings benefit in myriad ways – physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually – from spending time in nature.  read more »

AI is Killing Jobs and Fueling Campus Radicalism

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Revolution and disruption rarely stem from the poor and destitute, but from what Alexis de Tocqueville described as “a revolution of rising expectations”.  read more »

Spain’s Impossible Dream of ‘Green’ Electricity

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Updated Man of La Mancha lyrics could read: “To dream the impossible dream of clean, green, net-zero electricity, to fight the unbeatable foe of manmade climate cataclysms, we must run where the brave dare not go.”  read more »

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Zohran Mamdani’s Progressive Intifada will be a Disaster for New York

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Whoever is elected New York City mayor in November, Zohran Mamdani’s impressive win this week in the Democratic mayoral primary marks a breaking point in the party, the city and US society as a whole.  read more »

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Wars Are Won on the Factory Floor

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As recent events in Iran have so aptly demonstrated, technological progress married to industrial might produces the most tangible form of power.  read more »

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Africa's Deep Tech Centers

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Deep tech development is dominated by North America, Europe and Asia, however the competition from Africa is also becoming noticeable. Africa´s growing economies already host some of the world´s leading 500 deep tech companies.  read more »