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The News: Recalculating Guns v. Butter (opens the original)
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Long-time readers may be familiar with a claim I’m frequently inclined to make, which is that the seemingly sudden expansion of European and American territorial imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th Century was at least partially a result of a very brief moment of dramatic force asymmetry between national militaries backstopped by industrialization and equipped with rapid-fire weaponry and supporting infrastructures vs. local military powers that could not put large standing armies into t
The News: From Rentiers to Stooges (opens the original)
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I’ve written before that Trump may be less the one who broke the old Cold War order and more the one who served as the final confirmation of its long-gestating demise. It’s hard not to think about that this week, and for various reasons, I think about it in particular in reference to African participation in that now-dead world order—and where African leaders are ending up in the new system that is taking shape.In the 1973 version of “The Three Musketeers”, the sly antagonist Cardinal de Richeli
Gastrodome: O Is For Omelette (opens the original)
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There’s that old saying about games, that the best game is the one that takes minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. Omelettes are a thing that a new cook can learn to do perfectly after a few tries and then spend a lifetime screwing up. That first time you make an omelette right, where it slides onto the plate and it’s just beautiful looking, an egg pancake folded with precise geometry over some cheese or some other properly contained stuffing? That’s how a rocket scientist feels the first
The News: Divining the Polls (opens the original)
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Nate Cohn says in the New York Times that AI and data centers haven’t arrived fully as a national issue. How does he know? Because a new poll shows that voters are for once not breaking into the usual 55-35-10 “partisan” pattern when they’re asked about AI, and in particular, they show uncertainty about which political party might be best able to respond to
Gastrodome: O Is For Octopus (opens the original)
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Sustainability for any food is an important concern for any eater. For any animal that lives in oceans, in lakes, in rivers, this is an especially difficult thing to assess. One of the most powerful examples of the unsustainablity of human demand is the overfishing of cod, once assuming to be an inexhaustible resource. On the other hand, we don’t know as much as we might about some fisheries, and equally, our dietary preferences for certain fish and shellfish have shifted quickly in the last fif
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