It was 1938, and the pain of the Great Depression was still very real. Unemployment in the US was around 20%. New machinery was transforming factories and farms, and everyone was worried... Read more »

Even those who agreed that jobs will come back in “the long run” were concerned that “displaced wage-earners must eat and care for their families ‘in the short run.’” This analysis reconciled... Read more »

Measles is back with a vengeance. In the UK, where only 85% of school-age children have received two doses of the MMR vaccine, as many as 300 people have contracted the disease... Read more »

Maybe there’s a solution. The US developed a vast wastewater sampling network to detect covid during the pandemic. Could we leverage that network to provide an early warning system for measles? “I... Read more »

On a pine farm north of the tiny town of Tamarack, Minnesota, Talon Metals has uncovered one of America’s densest nickel deposits—and now it wants to begin tunneling deep into the rock... Read more »

What does a proposed nickel mine near a small town in Minnesota tell us about conflict over critical minerals?   The town of Tamarack, Minnesota, has a population of around 70.  Despite its... Read more »

RMI, a nonprofit research group focused on clean energy, projects that all the EV provisions within the IRA, which also include subsidies for new charging stations, will spur the sales of an... Read more »

1 San Francisco is fighting back against self-driving cars The city has filed a lawsuit that could force firms to roll back their rapid expansions. (WP $)+ Meanwhile, Waymo is planning a new... Read more »

One difference between the robotaxi rollouts in the two countries has to do with regulation. Chinese regulators are known for their hands-on approach and the tendency to rein in new technologies early.... Read more »