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A Chinese vessel let her anchor out, and was sailing full speed forward, destroying all European cables on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. After having done this, the Chinese vessel went to a Russian naval maintenance facility in Kaliningrad. This and other facts in our interview:

Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.

These Neanderthal fire pits offer an extraordinarily precise snapshot of ancient life nature.com/articles/d4158…

Could your Swedish climate impact company use 1MSEK with very few strings or report requirements attached? Apply to Startup4Climate! startup4climate.com

🧵Today is an exciting day! We have just announced ESM3, the design of a new green fluorescent protein, and the launch of our company. Here's a short thread about the scaling and infrastructure work involved in making ESM3 happen! 🧵

It's the China Cycle. They all fall for it.

Cyberpunk future

Air purifiers in Finnish daycare reduced children's illnesses by 18% in a carefully controlled study. This implies huge potential for better public health and cost savings from sick leaves, with a simple intervention against airborne infections. yle.fi/a/74-20089670

Well done, Recorded Future! The company is also in Gothenburg, Sweden.

BREAKING: We find that Germany can restart 3 nuclear reactors by 2028 and 9 reactors by 2032. The engineering and economics work. Two-thirds of the public want it. Only political will is needed. Here are four detailed graphics from our new report that summarize the facts.

Chinese manufacturers are limiting sales of key drone parts to the US & Europe, affecting companies supplying to Ukraine, sources tell Mark Bergen Gian Volpicelli & me Beijing is planning more formal export restrictions on drone components as soon as January bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Appreciate the quick response to my paper with Sander Tordoir from Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 -- there does seem to be a real consensus that Germany is now facing a China shock, even if there is still a healthy debate on the right response. A few reactions: (1/many) siliconcontinent.com/p/the-second-c…

The genetic switch that turns the balls of cells into ovaries and not testes is the absence of a Y chromosome gene called SRY. The female switch is often conceptualised in the OFF position. That is, unless you have the genes required to flip the switch to ON, you will

Varför skriveri ingen om detta ev konkurrerande bud från Europa? EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine – POLITICO #svpol politico.eu/article/critic…

That's probably because this excerpt isn't correct: You can't simply multiply the initial population size by fertility rates to get a final population size. Remember that previous fertility rates also influence how many people of childbearing age are around to give birth,

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov says that Trump gave Moscow an opportunity to prepare for a big war against Europe. Dmitry Drobnitsky points out that Trump's term is too short for Russia to carry out its plans, hoping that JD Vance will win in 2028. youtube.com/watch?v=IFBvas…

🚨SHOW OF FORCE: The 🇨🇳#China Coast Guard has moved 8 ships to surround 🇯🇵#Japan's Senkaku Islands, with one ship--CCG 1302--getting within 1 nautical mile of the main island of Uotsuri this morning Four is the CCG's "normal" Senkaku force, and they seldom get so close.

Jesus.

🟢 A Greenlight to remove chemicals from our crops 🟢 Double-stranded RNA has just been shown to be a rifle-shot treatment for plant viruses — "one of the most stubborn and costly challenges in global food production. Just months after proving we can control one of the world’s