In a lonely stretch of rural West Texas called Pecos County, construction crews are clearing the land for a power plant unlike almost any other in the United States. The New York Times investigated the site in August, revealing that Cleanview satellite images showed that the ground there was already being scraped bare. The project…Continue reading Behind the Meter, Beyond the Pledge
On the rooftop of a seven-story building on Long Island, scientist Justine Haupt has installed what her lab calls a lighthouse. Unlike a typical lighthouse, the purpose of Haupt’s project is not to warn ships. Instead, it catches single particles of light, one at a time, that have been fired thirteen miles away through the…Continue reading The Invisible Lighthouse
Something strange has been transpiring in secondhand bookshops around the world. Over the past several months, bookstore owners from Northumberland to Galway to Wellington have received enormous orders from buyers that they have never heard of, for large quantities of books that have nothing in common. The orders are not for a themed collection, and…Continue reading The Last Clean Ore: AI’s Great Book Harvest
Watching a loved one suffer from Alzheimer’s disease is a fate so heartbreaking that it is impossible to adequately express. For decades, the standard method of care has been to oversee cognitive decline while bracing for the inevitable. The disease is widely regarded as a one-way door, and the drugs to slow it down are…Continue reading Nature’s Reset: Light, Sound, & Mushrooms Challenge Alzheimer’s Inevitability
In late April, President Trump appeared in the Oval Office press conference flanked by military veterans, HHS Secretary Kennedy, and podcaster/comedian Joe Rogan. An Executive Order announcement followed, stating: “Psychedelic drugs, including ibogaine compounds, show potential in clinical studies to address serious mental illnesses for patients whose conditions persist after completing standard therapy….It is…Continue reading FDA Embarks on Plant Medicine Journey For Mental Health, PTSD Solutions
You toured the home. You loved it. You bought it. The neighborhood looked pristine, the sales agent was friendly, and nothing about the closing table suggested what was coming next. Then the first property tax bill arrived. Buried inside was a charge that had nothing to do with schools, county services, police, or fire protection.…Continue reading Built on Your Dime: The Special District Scheme Sweeping the Nation
James Welsch teaches American politics at a high school in Maine. His classroom runs almost entirely on screens — students write blog posts, trade articles, pull up videos mid-discussion. A few years ago, he noticed something wrong with the writing. Essays submitted digitally had grown choppy. Whole passages looked copied. The fluency he expected wasn’t…Continue reading The $30 Billion Screen Experiment That Failed Our Children
Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson held what is being called a ‘high-stakes’ hearing on June 3rd, which made history as the first public scientific inquiry to investigate the cancer-causing mechanisms of a public health vaccine intervention on Capitol Hill. Far from safe and effective, the COVID shot is once again taking center stage for its potential…Continue reading The Quiet Revolution Overthrowing The Broken Cancer Treatment Model
Del Bigtree’s recent trip to Italy, he witnessed something that instantly caught his attention. Farmers treating seeds with electricity before planting—no chemicals, no sprays, nothing synthetic—then watching those seeds outperform untreated ones planted side by side under identical conditions. Higher yields. Cleaner food. No inputs. “I had never heard of electrofarming before this trip,” he…Continue reading Nature Figured It Out Centuries Ago. Corporate America Spent Five Times the Electricity Getting it Wrong.