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Facebook's decision to pull out of Australia, and Google's decision to strike deals with local publishers, isn't the morality play people think.It's much more about whether businesses should be able
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India's farmer protests aren't just about a piece of worthwhile but badly-handled agricultural legislation.They're potentially the birth pangs of a more urbanized, prosperous India that will transform the world in
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Here's a thread about how Polynesian war canoes prove that humans are never going to colonize space in any foreseeable future: The Polynesian expansion is a great natural experiment in
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The trajectory of Sheldon Adelson's life tells a fascinating story about how the patronage politics of the 20th century American urban political machine has come to rule the world in
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Here's a rare piece of good news: Despite the tragic #SJ182 crash, air safety in Indonesia is rapidly improving.The accident rate in 2018 and 2019 was *lower* than it was
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We all know about how "Advance Australia Fair" was first performed in the middle of a outbreak of race riots, right? As @LukeLPearson points out here, the cosmetic change of
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Here's a story about how a ship-eating clam helped bring about the Industrial Revolution: The naval shipworm Teredo Navalis is an under-appreciated marker of globalization.It's a type of highly adapted
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What's pretty much the best-performing major industrial product in China this year?Industrial boilers for coal power plants:https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/tablequery.htm?code=AA0701 Only industrial tractors, primary plastics and &quo
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A few quick thoughts on China reportedly making the unofficial ban on Australian coal imports official:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/14/china-formalises-cut-to-australias-coal-imports-state-media-reports?CMP=Share_Andr
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Whether Japan's shift to hydrogen causes *more* or *less* carbon emissions than the status quo depends to an alarming extent on a relatively obscure issue of international carbon accounting ():https://twitter.com/DavidGaian/status/13367
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Ignore the diplomatic angst and wine embargoes. Australia's trade with China is booming, and exports will hit a record (again) next year:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-03/aussie-is-soaring-despite-australia-china-tra
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Did Exxon Mobil just capitulate to peak oil demand?Looking at their writedown and reduced spending plans they announced Monday, it certainly looks that way:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-01/exxon-mobil-capitulates-to-pea
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