A thug in Alabama felt so "threatened" by a man wielding a big spoon that he shot him dead.

Increasing evidence that blasting loud noises from the top of the ocean down into the ocean floor is very bad for whales.

"Sexual harassment", or amusing risqué hack?

While I can see why the university didn't like this, I don't believe this public non-threatening joke should be considered "harassment", much less an "assault".

A project to replicate and check the scientific publications of the few scientists that deny anthropogenic global heating found gross errors in them.

For over a century, technology created many new jobs, which typically were more productive and were better paid than the old jobs that were eliminated.

But this hasn't been true since 1990 or so.

Nowadays, the new jobs are mostly low-skill jobs, and low-paid.

But nowadays, with insufficient jobs, workers don't get raises even when their productivity increases. That's because employers can get away with not giving raises. They keep the benefit of the workers' increase productivity for themselves.

The uncertainty of today's temporary, subcontracted and irregular employment imposes stress on many American workers.

This stress is especially bad for those who are paid little and thus always at the edge. My income is irregular, but I don't worry much if some months go by and no speech gives me a fee. Millions of Americans could go hungry if they get too few hours.

The article recommends a solution of imposing welfare systems on whichever employer pays more than half of a worker's income, but there may not be any such employer, and and if there is, it might be different from week to week. Instead of placing the load for a worker's welfare support on that one employer, I suggest we disconnect welfare systems from employment, and make companies pay for them through taxes that are unrelated to how many workers they employ.

That would, as a side benefit, remove one incentive to replace human workers with automation.