Fertility rate bounces back to pre-pandemic levels
Loading Under this scenario, natural population would contribute one-quarter of the growth required for the population to reach the projected 39.2 million by 2060, with the rest driven by overseas…
Best of cartoons, January 2, 2023
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Jorie Graham Takes the Long View
The poet Jorie Graham is one of our great literary mappers of everything, everywhere all at once. As James Longenbach put it, she engages “the whole human contraption . . . rather than…
The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, January 1, 2023
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Conspiracy Moms: The Case of the Ancient Crypto-Miners
Legend says that no one has invested in these crypto caves since the Ice Age.
Climate change a harsh reality for Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt after year of record floods
At the time, Watt wrote on Twitter that Stone should be sacked, claiming he had “failed to build a single flood mitigation project”. By mid-November, Watt had similar feelings to…
The ‘sneaky’ language that failed to stop medical research with embryos
The debate, however, was about the use of what were called “excess embryos”. Declining to reveal the direct debate around the cabinet table, Vanstone described a “notional example” of how…
Labor’s energy market intervention carries a series of political risks
Recurring problem Loading The government has sought to calm the resources sector with assurances its intervention was temporary, lasting only for the next 12 months. But market analysts warn the…
Bizarre detail in crazy restaurant rampage
The cook who went viral for her “superhero” act during a violent brawl at a US Waffle House has broken her silence on social media. On Christmas Day, a video…
Russia-Ukraine war: Stunning hypocrisy in Putin’s New Year message
Vladimir Putin is showing no signs of regret or rethinking of his war in Ukraine, telling his nation on New Year’s Eve that “historical rightness” was on their side. But…