July 21, 2023

Demonstrators against the coup in Tel Aviv, 2023. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Four ways populists endanger democracy

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The populists are lying when they claim they want to empower us all by denying judges the authority to oversee democracy. They really want to break through the strongest constitutional barrier against authoritarianism
Soldiers patrolling the Western Wall, May 21, 2018. Illustration: depositphotos.com Illustration: depositphotos.com

Rationality is dead! Long live populism

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This week's decision to cancel the status of the women's lobby brought to attention the difference between those who take a rational position and populists who are based mainly on shouting and subjugation
A team led by SwRI discovered intermittent evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, giant swirling waves, at the boundary between Jupiter's magnetosphere and the solar wind that fills interplanetary space. The model here is from scientists at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in a 2017 GRL paper. Credit: UCAR/Zhang, et.al

The Juno spacecraft encounters giant swirling waves at the edge of Jupiter's magnetosphere

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Researchers have discovered that the Juno spacecraft often encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter's magnetosphere