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We are being watched. Most of us know it on some level, the way we sense a room has cameras before we spot them. What we tend to underestimate—badly—is just how many systems are running simultaneously, how much they already know, and how little any of it required our permission. A thread posted to X…Continue reading No Warrant Required: Eyes Everywhere in Surveillance America
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We check that little box on our driver’s license and feel good about ourselves. It’s a generous, selfless act—or so we’ve been told. One organ donor can save eight lives. The phrase is practically a bumper sticker at this point, landing exactly the way it was designed to: emotionally, efficiently, and without a single mention…Continue reading The Diagnosis That Was Designed to Kill Us
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We’ve handed over our location, our browsing history, our voice, our face, and our purchasing habits. In exchange, we’ve gotten convenience. Now Apple wants the one thing each of us might have thought was still ours—the electrical activity of our brain. And this time, they’re not even asking. What are we talking about here? In…Continue reading They’re All Ears: Apple’s Plan to Read Your Mind
We are a nation soaked in poison. It is in our food, our water, our soil, our air, and, increasingly, in every part of our bodies. Toxic glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup—has been detected in breakfast cereals, oat-based baby foods, and even human breast milk. The chemical industry has spent decades telling us that…Continue reading Toxic by Design: America’s Agricultural Crisis and the Promising Homeopathic Solution
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With ‘new’ American cancer numbers released this week, what many feared as an increase during the pandemic years appears to be a reality. As for possible solutions from unlikely places, the list is varied, from DMSO to repurposed drugs like Ivermectin. Bacteria are also being explored as cancer therapeutic agents due to their unique ability…Continue reading Scientists Discover Common Bacteria Cures 100% of Colon Cancer in Experiment
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Scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created something that did not exist six weeks ago: a tiny living robot with a functional nervous system that it built itself. No plug. No battery. No remote control. The little creature swims, explores its environment, and responds to drugs the way a nervous system…Continue reading Harvard Built It. DARPA Paid For It. Nobody Governs It.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has a staffing crisis, a body count, and a recruitment video set to electronic music. Its latest solution: raid the gaming community. On April 10, the Department of Transportation unveiled a campaign targeting video gamers to fill the ranks of the nation’s chronically understaffed air traffic control system. The DOT put…Continue reading You’ve Been Training for This. No, You Haven’t.
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A historic shift in the field of mental health has just happened. Decades of failed therapies mixed with dangerous and ineffective pharmaceutical drugs have just been met with a disruptive event with far-reaching significance. A new Executive Order from the White House reads: “Psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine compounds, show potential in clinical studies to address…Continue reading NOW: White House Greenlights Psychedelic Therapies for Mental Health Disorders
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Nobody asked the people living within six miles of an AI data center whether they wanted to be warmer. Nobody asked the deer, the pollinators, the soil, or the migratory birds either. Nope. They didn’t get a vote. A new study has put numbers to something that was hiding in plain sight. Researchers analyzed more…Continue reading Hot Data: What the AI Boom Is Doing to the Land Around Us
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