US citizens: call on Thug Chief Eric Winstrom to fire the thug who appears to have murdered Patrick Lyoya.

The EU is considering ending purchase of Russian oil, over a period of a year or so.

To make this work, the EU needs to prepare a program of investment in reducing its use of fossil fuel. Otherwise, Russia will sell to some other country and Europe will buy what that country used to get, and the net effect will be zero,

*Swapping 20% of beef for microbial protein "could halve deforestation."

I love eating fungi, but I want them to taste and feel like authentic fungi, not like fake meat.

Tory officials are working with drug companies on plans to corrupt Britain's National Health Service in the name of facilitating drug trials.

The basic idea of having data managers allow research queries while protecting patients' queries is worth thinking about. But I would not trust plutocratist politicians to restrain companies from abusing such a scheme. The companies would game the rules to try to deduce data about individual patients and sell it, and if the data managers simply follow rules, the snoopers will run rings around them.

The main moral issue in this is that the government should not give this cooperation without charging them a price. The price must be a reduction in monopoly power (patents, secrets, and restrictions on self-replicating substances).

Fossil fuel companies in the US are funding a campaign for fracking in the UK.