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For as long as most doctors can remember, the female ovary was set to expire one day. Indeed, once a woman went through menopause and her fertile years were over, the organ was considered finished—a spent shell that had done its job. In fact, one of the nation’s leading reproductive biologists, Francesca Duncan of Northwestern…Continue reading Second Act: What Happens to the Ovary After Menopause?
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The U.S. Army has a new unit with an interesting name, called Detachment 201. To the majority of Americans, it reads like just another military designation. But to a software engineer, it reads as an inside joke, because 201 is a phrase from web code. Specifically, when a computer server successfully creates something new, it…Continue reading Detachment 201: Created and Commissioned
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Massachusetts Governor Healey made headlines last week by ‘expanding abortion access.’ There was just one caveat. With Healey’s bill signing, she now joins nine other states and D.C. to eliminate the gestational age limits for an abortion. Once strictly guarded by four-pronged stopgap legal measures that governed the late-stage practice, the state’s fast-tracked bill now…Continue reading What’s a Life Worth in America as Massachusetts Now Allows Abortions Up To Birth
We’ve all seen a dog asleep on the kitchen floor while its owner cooks dinner. This image is one of the most ordinary scenes in American life. According to research, for dogs, it is also a slow, steady exposure to industrial chemicals that we often don’t think about when it comes to our four-legged family. Our beloved…Continue reading The Canary on the Kitchen Floor
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A new structure is popping up across the United States, and most of us have never heard the name of it. The massive compound is called a frontier AI data center, a term coined as a legal category by the Biden administration in January 2025, and it represents nothing less than an unprecedented computer empire.…Continue reading Public Land, Private AI Empires
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the indispensable gatekeeper for vaccines and drugs in the U.S. Nothing reaches the market or can be legally administered without its approval or authorization. Other agencies play vital supporting or downstream roles, but FDA’s regulatory authority is foundational and unmatched. When Kennedy arrived at the helm of…Continue reading ANALYSIS: Is FDA’s New mRNA Flu Shot Approval Proof of Agency’s MAHA Purge?
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Presently, as smoke from more than 900 wildfires drifts across the continent and Americans gasp as they breathe it in sitting on their front porches, it is important to understand that our own government has helped make these fires worse by using glyphosate-based herbicides on our nation’s forests year after year, often from the air.…Continue reading Glyphosate Forests – Engineered to Burn
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With the FCC holding no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other serious ill effects from the rapidly increasing number of satellites orbiting the Earth, let’s look at the problem a new startup aims to solve, because it is almost comically small. Solar panels do not work after dark. The sun sets and the…Continue reading Sunlight on Demand – Whose Night Is It, Anyway?
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The hornet’s nest of trauma and incomplete closure stemming from the failed pandemic response has been kicked again…hard. Fauci’s non-testimony in front of Sen. Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee and, perhaps more importantly, Paul’s Reading Room document dump of all Fauci’s pandemic correspondence has reignited the public’s appetite for justice. There is plenty of…Continue reading Corporate Media Gets A Do-Over on Pandemic Reporting Only To Fail Again
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