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DARPA Breaks Wireless Power Record, Beaming Energy Over Five Miles Away

Updated 10:16 AM EDT, Thu July 10, 2025

Although it surely bypasses the objective behind the concept of wireless power transmission envisioned by Nikola Tesla, DARPA’s Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program recently set a new record for wireless power transmission, beaming more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser 5.3 miles away. The tests, which…Continue reading DARPA Breaks Wireless Power Record, Beaming Energy Over Five Miles Away

Unhealthy Food Marketing: The Intentional Targeting of Our Children

Updated 5:17 AM EDT, Tue July 8, 2025

Junk food companies—those that produce ultraprocessed meals and snacks full of toxins and lacking any nutritional value—bombard younger generations with carefully crafted, powerful advertisements promoting unhealthy, high-fat, high-sugar, and salty snacks and beverages. Research has shown that the marketing efforts of these companies lead to increased consumption of their destructive products. And now, a sweeping…Continue reading Unhealthy Food Marketing: The Intentional Targeting of Our Children

Heavy Reliance on ChatGPT Erodes Brain Activity

Updated 5:45 AM EDT, Thu June 26, 2025

A recent study conducted by MIT, titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing,” found that using ChatGPT reduced brain function, forming what is known as “cognitive debt,” particularly in young people. Not a big shocker, really. In fact, it seems incredibly naive not to inherently…Continue reading Heavy Reliance on ChatGPT Erodes Brain Activity

Autism rate rises 43 percent in New Jersey

“A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which uses research by Rutgers University, shows a significant increase in the percentage of 4-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder in New Jersey. The study found the rate increased 43 percent from 2010 to 2014 in the state.“ READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE AT…Continue reading Autism rate rises 43 percent in New Jersey

Updated 12:23 PM EDT, Fri April 12, 2019

Born between 1957-1989? You may not be protected from measles outbreak

USA TODAY inadvertently admits the shortcomings of vaccines and the futile attempts at a mythical herd immunity future in their new article title. The need for a second and even third dose of a vaccine for it to be effective is a self admission that the vaccines have and are failing. “For many people born…Continue reading Born between 1957-1989? You may not be protected from measles outbreak

Updated 12:17 PM EDT, Fri April 12, 2019

Daily Beast Crowns Del Bigtree “King of Anti-Vaxxers”

The original title read, “How TV’s ‘The Doctors’ Spawned the King of the Anti-Vaxxers.” Yet The Daily Beast immediately changed their title and demoted Bigtree from “King” to “Top Anti-vaxxer” opting for “Top Anti-Vaxxer Says He Learned All He Needs To Know From Being a Producer on ‘Dr. Phil’ and ‘The Doctors’ READ THE FULL…Continue reading Daily Beast Crowns Del Bigtree “King of Anti-Vaxxers”

Updated 11:55 AM EDT, Fri April 12, 2019

CNN: Anti-Vaxxers Are Winning the War on Social Media

CNN misses the point in understanding both the nuances and the greater breadth of valid concerns surrounding vaccines that are driving activism among such large populations. “Concerned that anti-vaccination activists are winning the war on social media, advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say public health authorities need to figure out…Continue reading CNN: Anti-Vaxxers Are Winning the War on Social Media

Updated 1:53 PM EDT, Mon April 8, 2019

Half of Western Australian health workers refuse flu vaccination

“As health officials prepare to promote flu season jabs for West Australians, new figures show only half of all health workers caring for our sickest patients get vaccinated. Department of Health figures show that 50.4 per cent of nurses, doctors and other health workers were vaccinated last year against the deadly influenza virus.” READ THE…Continue reading Half of Western Australian health workers refuse flu vaccination

Updated 1:48 PM EDT, Mon April 8, 2019

Philippines to Charge Sanofi, Public Health Officials for Dengue Vaccine Deaths

“On Mar. 1, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Philippines announced that it had found probable cause to charge six officials from French vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur, 10 Philippine health officials and officials of the country’s Food and Drug Administration and its Research Institute for Tropical Medicine with reckless impudence for causing the…Continue reading Philippines to Charge Sanofi, Public Health Officials for Dengue Vaccine Deaths

Updated 1:26 PM EDT, Mon April 8, 2019