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For as long as most doctors can remember, the female ovary was set to expire one day. Indeed, once a woman went through menopause and her fertile years were over, the organ was considered finished—a spent shell that had done its job. In fact, one of the nation’s leading reproductive biologists, Francesca Duncan of Northwestern…Continue reading Second Act: What Happens to the Ovary After Menopause?
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We’ve all seen a dog asleep on the kitchen floor while its owner cooks dinner. This image is one of the most ordinary scenes in American life. According to research, for dogs, it is also a slow, steady exposure to industrial chemicals that we often don’t think about when it comes to our four-legged family. Our beloved…Continue reading The Canary on the Kitchen Floor
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A new structure is popping up across the United States, and most of us have never heard the name of it. The massive compound is called a frontier AI data center, a term coined as a legal category by the Biden administration in January 2025, and it represents nothing less than an unprecedented computer empire.…Continue reading Public Land, Private AI Empires
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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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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