Why Negative Interest Rates Will Not Fix the Global Economy
NATO Declares Outer Space an ‘Operational Domain’
How the Third Reich Managed Ham Radio Hobbyists
Nixon Played a Major Diplomatic Role from 1986 to 1991
How Gambling Built Baseball – and Then Almost Destroyed It
Neoliberalism Has Tricked Us Into Believing a Fairytale About Where Money Comes From
Twitter Stock Plunges After Trump Account Suspension
SpaceX Granted Permission to Launch Satellites Into Polar Orbit
Japan to Build Wooden Satellites to Avoid Space Junk

Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese wood processing company, has started developing wooden satellites, in partnership with Kyoto University. The project is proposed as a solution to the space junk problem. Thus, end-of-life wooden satellites would fully burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere without leaving any harmful debris.
What’s the Difference Between an Outbreak, an Epidemic and a Pandemic?
What Is a Tariff? An Economist Explains
Satellite Data Provides Fresh Insights Into the Amount of Water in the Nile Basin
How We Discovered the Vampire Bat That Has Learned To Drink Human Blood
Magnetism of Himalayas’ Rocks Reveals the Mountains’ Complex Tectonic History
How Reagan’s notions of a ‘good society’ resonate with Trump supporters today
What a Link Between Chocolate and Nobel Prizes Reveals About Our Trust in Scientists

In 2012, Dr Franz Messerli published a short article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that took a good hard look at the cognitive benefits of chocolate consumption. As chocolate contains flavanols, thought to facilitate brain cell connections and boost thinking skills, such a study seems to make sense.
U.S. Department of Justice Sues Yale University for Race Discrimination

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Yale University for the alleged discrimination against White and Asian applicants. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday October 9, 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. It accuses Yale University of illegally considering the race of the candidates in its admission decisions.