Egypt's repression extends even to visiting foreign academics.

The EU may ban use of diclofenac for animals so that their corpses don't kill vultures.

The CIA Tortured Abu Zubaydah, My Client. Now Charge Him Or Let Him Go.

Belgium was shut down by a general strike against right-wing poverty-spreading policies.

Cryonic preservation could offer a way to preserve the biosphere and avoid global heating disaster. If we could convince 4/5 of humanity to get frozen for later revival, the part of humanity remaining active would generate a much smaller amount of greenhouse gas, and could develop space habitats providing enough room to unfreeze everyone.