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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
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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An 84-year-old woman wakes up in excruciating back pain. An ambulance rushes her to Vancouver General Hospital. She is frightened, hurting, and barely settled into the emergency room when the first physician approaches her. Before any diagnosis. Before any treatment plan. Before so much as a scan. The very first words out of the doctor’s…Continue reading The Quiet Kill: How Assisted Suicide Became a Growth Industry
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For those who still need proof that the pharmaceutical industry views human health as a commodity and patients as revenue streams, a new review published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics just handed it to you—documented, sourced, and damning. The study abstract declared: “Reported bribes amounted to about US $12.6 million, with sanctions exceeding…Continue reading Nineteen Companies. Twenty-One Investigations. Zero Admissions of Wrongdoing.
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For decades, an increasingly unhealthy American public has been handed the same story. The human body is fragile, complicated, and largely dependent on medical intervention to function properly. Got a problem? Hold on, there’s a drug for that. Feeling run down? Probably a deficiency. Something more serious? Here’s a lifelong prescription. What we haven’t been…Continue reading Your Body Was Never Broken. That Was the Point.
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“Life is what happens when you’re making plans. This is one of those stories.” That’s how Del Bigtree introduced Ed Clay during a recent conversation on The HighWire, and it’s hard to think of a better way to describe the path that led Clay from professional fighting to running a regenerative medicine hospital. The Nashville-born…Continue reading Ed Clay’s Hardest Fight: Former MMA Fighter Steps Into One of Medicine’s Most Controversial Frontiers
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