Clanoregime
Scene from Alien Girl (2010). “Mafia is not a Russian word,” retorted Putin, in a brusque exchange with Italian journalists questioning him on the rule of law in Russia in 2000. View it as a forceful...
View ArticleChina Overtakes US in Scientific Articles, Robots, Supercomputers
Nothing illustrates China’s meteoric rise as some well chosen numbers. By the end of the 1990s, China had come to dominate the mainstays of geopolitical power in the 20th century – coal and steel...
View ArticleA Short History of the Third Millennium
Fundamentally solve the “intelligence problem,” and all other problems become trivial. The problem is that this problem is a very hard one, and our native wit is unlikely to suffice. Moreover, because...
View ArticleHow Banging Your Cousins Led to the Islamic State
Apologies for the tabloidy title. This is an otherwise serious post. It is well known that higher rates of cousin marriages – especially the father’s brother’s daughter (FBD) type that is common in the...
View Article
