Why Britain Switches Off Its Wind Farms

Written by Richard Lyon

Below is part one of a weekly series taking the UK’s energy subsidies apart, one scheme at a time, using the Subsidy Clock. We begin with the strangest of them: the money we pay wind farms to stop generating.

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How Did Our Ancestors Eat Calories?

Written by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

America has achieved a strange biological success. We made calories cheap, portable, shelf-stable, intensely flavored, and available everywhere. Then we built public nutrition around the one number that made that achievement look neutral

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