Toxic by Design: America’s Agricultural Crisis and the Promising Homeopathic Solution

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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

Harvard Built It. DARPA Paid For It. Nobody Governs It.

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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.

You’ve Been Training for This. No, You Haven’t.

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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.