"Russian flu," the pandemic that hit in 1977, bears an evolutionary signature of having emerged from a lab, perhaps as part of a failed vaccine effort. Covid, mpox, Ebola, and other influenza pandemics don't. Here's my story on a new way to trace the origins of pandemics. Gift link: nyti.ms/46N0W33
The real adults in the room: Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón and Jonas Gahr Støre
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Premier #Jetten is ingegaan op de uitnodiging van #Zelensky on op korte termijn naar Oekraïne te komen. Vandaag in #Kyiv, zojuist legden ze samen een krans bij de Herdenkingsmuur voor Gevallenen
Wat is er in hemelsnaam met Nederland gebeurd, dat we begrip uitspreken voor de volstrekt onrechtmatige vernietigingsoorlog van Amerika en Israël tegen Iran? #Yeşilgöz #WNL
Hahaha the horned helmets belong on a German list (Wagnerite invention) and Knausgård on a European or at least a Scandinavian list…Carlsberg on a Danish…
Three cheers: “The Swedish list includes Ingmar Bergman's iconic 1957 movie The Seventh Seal, rebellious children's book character Pippi Longstocking and the practice of Allemansratt, the right to temporarily camp on privately owned nature properties.”
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Krachtig wordt door @mathijsbouman.nl verwoord waarom Groningers boven gas gaan! 👌🏼👇🏼
LOL “JA21 wil wel heel veel kerncentrales bouwen.
Maar voordat de eerste daarvan stroom levert zijn we alweer drie gascrises verder en is Eerdmans al lang burgermeester van Harderwijk.”
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Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure
FWIW, Orwell never said that
John Maynard Keynes was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1920s for writing “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”. Yet, despite being highly ranked by the advisor of the Nobel Committee and placed on the shortlist, he did not win. This column brings out previously unused archival material from the Nobel Committee in Oslo to explore why. The Committee tended to withhold the Prize when circumstances were too politically sensitive. Keynes, though praised and admired internationally, was likely politically too controversial to be chosen.
Lars Jonung examines archival material from the Nobel Committee in Oslo to understand why, despite being nominated three times in the 1920s, John Maynard Keynes did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for writing “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”.
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#EconSky
Kenneth Tynan once said the job of the theatre critic is not only to say what the theatre of their day was doing, but also what it is not doing.
Similarly constitutional commentators need to not only explain what Trump is doing, but also what others with powers to check and balance are not doing.
“Het waren juist de groene gekkies en duurzame dromers die gelijk hadden”
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Tusk: "We are investing heavily in future nuclear power plants, and Poland will not want to be passive when it comes to nuclear security in a military context."
"We will cooperate with our allies...as our capabilities increase, we will try to prepare Poland for autonomous action in this matter."
The French singing La Marseillaise in a nuclear submarine base is deeply symbolic.
France built its own independent nuclear deterrent after WWII to never again have to suffer a similar humiliation. Now France is offering to ”advance” that deterrent to other European countries.
“#France’s new doctrine will reinforce Europe’s collective security in ways that only recently would have seemed unrealistic and unnecessary.”
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“In a world of meaningfully constrained supply, the oil price will be bid to whatever level shuts down economic activity of the almost marginal buyer.
Working out who this unsuccessful marginal buyer is that gets priced out of existence (…) is too hard for us.”
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In Ukraine, a Community of ‘Simple Believers’ Shuns the Modern World www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/w...
“Ziektemetaforen zijn nog altijd in trek – denk aan ‘bospest’ (de bijnaam voor Amerikaanse vogelkers)”
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“A brain is a terrible thing to have eaten”
Couldn’t agree more!
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“Charles Darwin fretted a lot about the exquisite complexity and sophistication of the vertebrate eye as he developed his theory of evolution. ‘
The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder,’ he confided to his friend, the American botanist Asa Gray, in 1860.”
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Isn’t it time for a daily app Trump’s hand?
“Juist omdat het niet is uit te leggen waarom vrijheid vrijwel gratis zou moeten zijn voor burgers met aanzienlijke vermogens of winstgevende bedrijven.”
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Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
The tariffs were obviously blatantly unconstitutional from the moment that they were imposed. If the Supreme Court is going to have a shadow docket and make emergency orders, it's absurd that they let these tariffs stand for a year.
Wat je allemaal weggeeft aan Amerikaanse bedrijven als je je identiteit laat verifiëren door LinkedIn. Een blogger met een hekel aan het verzamelen van data zocht het uit.
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leestip van @sandradehaan.bsky.social
Niet de eerste en de laatste, niettemin een mooi album
Voor zijn nieuwe album nam Maarten Hogenhuis zeven stukken op van de invloedrijke Amerikaanse componist Cole Porter, waarvan sommige stammen uit 1930. „Ik wilde iets doen dat radicaal direct is: terug naar pure jazz."
