Australia has stepped up the investigation of accusations of corruption against federal functionaries. Bravo, Australia!

Danish unions are supporting Swedish unions that are demanding recognition from Tesla. Imagine what workers could achieve if US unions could do this with European unions.

The UAW is aiming to reach the jumping-off point for that by organizing the remaining US car manufacturers.

Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the "biographies" of hundreds of the city's ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail.*

Such research would be impossible in the US, due to the law NAGPRA which declares that any indigenous religion or nationalism trumps science and history.

Indigenous people are entitled to the same rights as anyone else, including to practice their religions, but it does not follow that the wishes suggested by their religions should be our commands.

The Israeli army is using a computer system to choose which houses to bomb in Gaza.

The opacity provided by the magic word "AI" provides plenty of opportunity to paint the system as trying to avoid collateral damage, while tuning it so that such efforts are cursory and predictably inadequate. We could equally well describe it as accepting a considerable risk of killing civilians.

The input to the system includes a list of houses in which some inhabitant is suspected of being a HAMAS fighter. That is a recipe for blowing up lots of houses, in which probably no HAMAS fighter is in residence during the bombardment, and killing tens or hundreds of thousands of relatives or bystanders.

The evidence that PFOA causes cancer in humans is mounting up. So is the amount of PFOA in our environment, since we keep making more and it accumulates without degrading.