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Three mule deer wandered up to a brand-new bridge near Grass Lake, in the far north of California, and walked across it. The bridge was built just for them, and other animals, and a trail camera caught them taking advantage of it. Remarkably, the bridge was not even finished being built when they used it.…Continue reading The Kind of People Who Build Bridges for Animals
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For years, the only way to fight against the weedkiller Roundup has been in a courtroom. Individuals who asserted that their lives had been forever altered by cancer from the weedkiller sued its maker, Bayer, which purchased the chemical’s original manufacturer, Monsanto, by the tens of thousands. At times, juries agreed with the plaintiffs and…Continue reading Kennedy Is in the Room. But Whose Science Is on the Table?
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$53.5 billion. That is what twenty of the world’s largest grain, fertilizer, meat, and dairy companies paid their shareholders over 2021 and 2022. The United Nations estimates that it would cost about $51.5 billion to feed the 230 million most desperate, hungry people on earth. So a single slice of the food industry handed out…Continue reading $53.5 Billion: A Food System That Feeds Its Investors
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
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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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