On November 8, 2021, a college professor named Pano Kanelos set off what felt like a bomb in these pages when he announced that in a country with more than 4,000 colleges and universities, he was moving to Austin, Texas, to start a new one.

On Saturday, I gave a 10-minute TED-style talk on energy humanism to about 300 high school student.

Last week, Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, sounded the economic alarm. In a 400-page white paper, Draghi warned an uncompetitive European economy faces “an existential challenge” of flagging dynamism and slow productivity growth

The book of the year is The Scythian Empire by the American historian and scholar Christopher Beckwith.

When the media claims we’re experiencing a “once in 500-year” or “once in 1,000-year” weather event, they’re missing a fundamental point about how data works

The US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy, just issued an official advisory warning against the stressful nature of parenting and labelling it “an urgent public health issue.”

Hyping solar energy is one of America’s most renewable resources. For instance, in 1978, Ralph Nader declared that “everything will be solar in 30 years.”

The Barakah nuclear power plant in the UAE has reached full capacity, which will now generate a staggering 40TWh of electricity annually

Scientific American can barely conceal its relief that disaster looms, emailing that “Weeks of eerie quiet in the Atlantic Ocean basin are over.

Penn State celebrity climate scientist Michael Mann announced in April that his research group’s 2024 North Atlantic season forecast was expecting an “unprecedented” 33 named storms, with a range between 27 and 39. [emphasis, links added]

I attended an integrative medicine meeting recently and one of the speakers said that ozone was one of the most important tools in his practice.