Resource Insights

Independent Commentary on Environmental and Natural Resource News
By Kurt Cobb

Sunday, May 11, 2025

"Better" AI has more "hallucinations"

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Imagine you are a doctor with a patient whose hallucinations keep increasing. Of course, you might try to figure out how to stabil...
Sunday, May 04, 2025

Climate change and the Overton Window

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Joseph Overton worked at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Michigan-based conservative think tank before his untimely death...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Yet another week off - no post this week

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Your humble blogger is unexpectedly indisposed again this week and has been unable to write. It is my fervent hope that I will be back a wee...
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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Taking a two-week break - no post this week or next

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I am taking a break this week and next and plan to post again on Sunday, April 27.
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Sunday, April 06, 2025

Second- and third-order effects: Immigration, bird flu and climate

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It's usually easy to predict first-order effects. Those are effects that follow directly from our actions. For example, the Trump ...
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Sunday, March 30, 2025

America First: Can it be squared with proposed 'annexation' of Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal?

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The "America First" slogan often used by candidate Donald Trump in his first and second presidential campaigns might sound o...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

DOGE and (mis)understanding AI

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The general narrative in the media regarding artificial intelligence (AI) is binary. AI is either the greatest human invention ever, s...
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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Scented dangers: Who regulates scented products?

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The internet and airwaves are full of advertisements offering to make you, your home, your car and your workplace smell better. It al...
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Sunday, March 09, 2025

Trade war danger: China could quickly strangle American tech with metals cutoff

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There's no telling exactly where the Trump administration's trade war is going as the president authorizes tariffs and then qu...
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Sunday, March 02, 2025

No matter what Elon Musk thinks, government cannot and should not be run like a business

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There is a so-called U. S. government "efficiency" drive currently underway delegated by President Donald Trump to ...
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