On Day 3 of our trek to Everest Base Camp (our 5th or 6th day in Nepal) we took an acclimatization hike on our layover day in Namche Bazaar. From the top of a high hill we had our first views of Mt. Everest. Quite spectacular.
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President Trump's UK deal is the beginning of something, not the end. The real challenge remains. [...]
Today on TAP: In its very DNA, the Catholic Church in the U.S. is pro-immigrant. How, then, will Leo interact with Trump? [...]
My advice to Pope Leo XIV: ignore the woke noise and listen to working-class Catholics. [...]
James Carville at the Sir Harry Investigative Journalism Summit 2025 said he is more scared now than when he served in the Marine Corps during Vietnam. [...]
This is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We've touched on polls before but I don't think I've seen anything quite as egregious in pollsters' bias as recently when they apparently or supposedly or purportedly surveyed the first hundred days of Donald Trump and the public reaction. [...]
In a recent piece in The Nation, Ned Resnikoff argued that many advocates of "abundance" on the left offer an analysis of power relations "that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power" than the one held by some of their critics. He supports this claim with a thoughtful explanation of abundance's program for increasing housing supply. [...]
China's decentralized export machine bypasses traditional retail channels, pays no income taxes, evades tariffs, and undercuts U.S. business. [...]
Two new books on high tech and social media examine the toll of relentless shopping, engagement, and the tyranny of the like button. [...]
Who needs Big Brother when you have Big Media? The odds are 1.68 million to 1 that he wound up with symbols spelling MS-13 on his knuckles by accident. But anything's possible, right? [...]
So the big recent expose on Sen. John Fetterman in New York Magazine has many Republicans trying to excuse his erratic behavior by claiming his Senate staff [...]
There's a deep sweetness to how the Catholics choose their leader, inviting the world. [...]
Popes who take that name tend to be progressive reformers. If Trump and JD Vance think they have an ally in the Vatican, I think not, says former Tablet editor Catherine Pepinster [...]
For the first time, we have an American pope. [...]
Trump's first hundred days are over. There is a blizzard of polling data indicating that American voters are not happy so far with their second ride on the Trump train. On RCP, Trump's average net approval ratings (approval minus disapproval) are -6 overall, -13 on the economy, and -21 on inflation. Sad! [...]
Flying on private jets is not a topic Bernie Sanders would like to talk about. [...]
Earlier this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided at least nine restaurants in the nation's capital, requesting proof that the establishments are not flouting the law by employing illegal aliens. Washington, D.C., presents itself as a so-called sanctuary city for illegal aliens, so the mere fact ICE agents targeted a few businesses there is hardly surprising. [...]
The appointments-which include an attorney who helped steer a major anti-trans case-are as much about the failures of the Democrats as the ruthlessness of Republicans. [...]
In the first foreign tour of his second term, US President Donald Trump will arrive in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday before visiting Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.Trump is just the latest US president to visit oil-rich Saudi Arabia. Here are some of the most memorable meetings between US leaders and their Saudi allies.- The Suez handshake -The foundation for the US and Saudi Arabia's enduring relationship was sealed with a handshake on a boat on Valentine's Day, 1945. [...]
US President Donald Trump heads for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on Monday, eyeing big business deals even as accords on the Middle East's hotspots will be harder to seal.While Israel's war in Gaza and Iran's nuclear program will loom large over Trump's first major foreign trip of his second term, the White House said he looked forward to a "historic return" to the region.Eight years ago Trump also chose Riyadh for his first overseas trip as president -- when he memorably posed over a glowing orb with the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia. [...]
The Iranian foreign minister's visit is seen as Tehran's effort to rally Saudi support behind its position in the US-Iran nuclear talks amid escalating threats from American officials, which have fueled uncertainty about the fate of the fragile diplomatic initiative. [...]
The Iranian foreign minister's visit is seen as Tehran's effort to rally Saudi support behind its position in the US-Iran nuclear talks amid escalating threats from American officials, which have fueled uncertainty about the fate of the fragile diplomatic initiative. [...]
The Iranian foreign minister's visit is seen as Tehran's effort to rally Saudi support behind its position in the US-Iran nuclear talks amid escalating threats from American officials, which have fueled uncertainty about the fate of the fragile diplomatic initiative. [...]
The Iranian foreign minister's visit is seen as Tehran's effort to rally Saudi support behind its position in the US-Iran nuclear talks amid escalating threats from American officials, which have fueled uncertainty about the fate of the fragile diplomatic initiative. [...]
The top Turkish diplomat has revealed that he was poisoned with arsenic and mercury during his tenure as the intelligence chief. [...]
The top Turkish diplomat has revealed that he was poisoned with arsenic and mercury during his tenure as the intelligence chief. [...]
The top Turkish diplomat has revealed that he was poisoned with arsenic and mercury during his tenure as the intelligence chief. [...]
The top Turkish diplomat has revealed that he was poisoned with arsenic and mercury during his tenure as the intelligence chief. [...]
Israel would not be involved in food distribution under a US-led plan for the Gaza Strip but would provide "necessary military security", Washington's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said on Friday.Despite imposing a now two-month-long blockade of aid on Gaza, which it says is aimed at putting pressure on Palestinian militants Hamas, Israel has asserted there is no humanitarian crisis in the territory. [...]
The United States and Iran will hold a new round of nuclear talks Sunday in Oman ahead of a visit to the region by Donald Trump, whose key negotiator staked out an increasingly hard line on the issue of uranium enrichment.Trump, who will visit three other Gulf Arab monarchies next week, has voiced hope for reaching a deal with Tehran to avert an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear program that could ignite a wider war. [...]
Israel's stated commitment to defending the Syrian Druze is, by the admission of some of its leaders, consistent with a long-term strategic goal -- the weakening of Syria.Israel, which has occupied part of Syrian territory since 1967, claimed to be protecting the Druze minority to justify several strikes following recent, bloody inter-communal clashes in Syria.In the aftermath of one strike near the Presidential Palace in Damascus on May 3, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the bombardment should serve as a "clear message". [...]
Egypt and the Palestinian Authority both sent representatives to Russia for the annual World War II parade as they court ties with Moscow. [...]
Egypt and the Palestinian Authority both sent representatives to Russia for the annual World War II parade as they court ties with Moscow. [...]
Egypt and the Palestinian Authority both sent representatives to Russia for the annual World War II parade as they court ties with Moscow. [...]
Egypt and the Palestinian Authority both sent representatives to Russia for the annual World War II parade as they court ties with Moscow. [...]
Thousands gathered for a rare peace event in Jerusalem on Friday, with the Gaza war in its 20th month, the UN warning of humanitarian catastrophe and Palestinian militants still holding dozens of Israelis captive.In recent days, Israel has announced plans for an expanded military campaign in Gaza entailing the "conquest" of the Palestinian territory. Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said this meant that the Gaza Strip would be "entirely destroyed". [...]
Despite heavy bombardment, the Houthis retained significant missile and drone capabilities, adapted tactically, inflicted a $1 billion cost on US and emerged more strategically valuable to Iran. [...]
Despite heavy bombardment, the Houthis retained significant missile and drone capabilities, adapted tactically, inflicted a $1 billion cost on US and emerged more strategically valuable to Iran. [...]
Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Foreign Affairs Washington must secure a supply of critical minerals that China doesn't control. [...]
John Tamny, RCM "A couple employees left for the rest of the day. They were pretty rattled." Those were the words of multi-restaurant owner and Georgetown Events Hospitality [...]
Kevin D. Williamson, The Dispatch The president thinks the U.S. is one big Macy's—with him in charge. [...]
Benn Steil, Barrons For with tariffs, all is possible, nothing impossible. Numbers and logic be damned. Never in the field of human commerce has so much been promised to so many from so [...]
Joseph Adinolfi, MW Some analysts think the economy can handle the tariffs without a recession [...]
Phil Mattingly, CNN Business A few hours after President Donald Trump's trade negotiating team boarded a flight for the most important economic meetings in the world, their boss took to social [...]
LyLena Estabine, RealClear This April could be the last time small start-ups like mine enjoy the tax breaks of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Starting [...]
Jordan McGillis, City Journal It's dramatizing a tension within the Trump coalition. [...]
Thomas Savidge, AIER Research Fellow Thomas Savidge digs into tax data to answer a frequently echoed question. [...]
Spencer Jakab, WSJ Investors have piled into dividend growth strategies but one of the easiest methods produces the best results. [...]
John Authers, Bloomberg It's hard to argue with his charm or success, but the great investor loves a good monopoly. [...]
Liam McBain, NPR Trump's administration said they want tariffs to boost US manufacturing, and most Americans want more factory jobs here. But what makes us nostalgic for factory work? [...]
Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]
Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]
Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]
Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]
R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]
Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]
Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]
Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]
Are the kids all right? This week’s Real Time With Bill Maher had two very different answers to that question within the same episode. The first came when Maher sat down to talk with David Hogg about the current status of the Democratic Party, and where it might go from here. This was Hogg’s third […] The post “Real Time With Bill Maher” Covered AI Hallucinations and Robot Uprisings appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Extended issues at a popular airport in a crowded metropolitan area are never a good thing for travelers, airline employees or air traffic controllers. That’s been the case at Newark Liberty International Airport for much of this month, including an air traffic control system outage that had much wider repercussions. The chaos that ensued prompted […] The post Newark Airport’s Logistical Nightmares Aren’t Over appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
When an automaker releases a new vehicle, you would think that one of the paramount goals would be to make it as easy as possible to refuel. A gas-powered car that can’t be filled up at 90% of the world’s gas stations isn’t going to get far, and the same is presumably true for EVs. […] The post Mercedes-Benz Has Good News and Bad News for Would-Be CLA Owners appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There are few places more charming than the Catskills. Located in southeastern New York, the area is only a two- to three-hour drive from NYC, depending on how far north you venture. I’ve explored a lot of the region during my 16 years living in Brooklyn, and although there are so many towns and areas […] The post Windham Is the Coolest Little Mountain Town in the Northeast appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Each week, our inbox runneth over with news of gear, apparel and tech releases from around the world. In this feature, we’ll parse through the best of it. Today: Ooni drops a new pizza oven just in time for summer, fruity whiskey from Two Stacks and a new G-Shock watch. We've put in the work […] The post Products of the Week: Watches, Whiskey and Pizza Ovens appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s notoriously difficult for young entrepreneurs to find their footing in the food and beverage industry. But Ross Mackay has now done it twice. The 34-year-old Glaswegian first made waves with Daring Foods, a plant-based chicken company that secured funding from Naomi Osaka, scaled to distribute to thousands of grocery stores and redefined alt-protein in […] The post The Kit: What Ross Mackay Uses to Train, Fuel and Recover appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
People like yourself might not have all day to online shop…which is why we’re committed to doing it for you every week. No need to thank us or anything. From discounts on Our Place glassware to a sale at Everlane, these are the best deals we’ve found on the internet this week. The Best Deals […] The post From Tees to Coupes: The Best Deals on the Internet This Week appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
There’s a bizarre state of being I can’t seem to avoid on international vacations. I’m standing in front of a painting or statue, a little hungover, caffeinated, but almost too caffeinated, on edge, thinking about lunch, thinking about dinner, 15,000 steps into another 30,000-step day, reading the little card next to the art, then looking […] The post How an Unhurried Vacation Can Soothe Your Brain appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Think of a period when you were struggling with work, your relationship or just going through a hard time. Maybe loved ones suggested therapy, but it wasn’t a practical solution at the time. You couldn’t commit to regular appointments, afford the co-pay or find someone to take your insurance. The unsuccessful search might’ve even made […] The post Is AI Therapy Really a Good Idea? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Venice, Italy is one of the most touristed destinations in the world. The sheer density of the incoming masses is made more stark by how tiny the water-soaked getaway is and how few people live there. Only about 50,000 people call the historic city center home, the tally increasing to a quarter million with the […] The post How to Do Venice the Right Way appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
For some gearheads, it all starts with Hot Wheels. I can trace my own automotive obsession to a fleet of die-cast cars I frequently laid out and examined like a Homeric catalog of ships. But my favorite was a 1/24-scale Ferrari 512 BB. You could almost get an action figure behind the wheel. In my […] The post Can a $1 Toy Inspire Someone to Buy a $500,000 Car? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Want to know what the future holds? You need to meet the people building it. In our series Who’s Next, we profile rising stars of culture, tech, style, wellness and beyond. Nearly everything about Talea Beer Co. bucks the current trends of the craft beer industry. Five taproom locations, in this economy? Continued growth, when […] The post In an Era of Craft Beer Malaise, Talea’s Still Thriving appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
It’s been quite a time for indie rock fans of a certain age looking to revisit their favorites. Last month we got a new Bon Iver album, and this month brings new releases from Lucius, Tune-Yards, The National’s Matt Berninger and Car Seat Headrest. But in addition to all those heavy-hitters of the 2010s, there’s […] The post Nobody Asked for a New Arcade Fire Album appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
New York magazine published a story yesterday that rattled me to my core. The piece, written by Intelligencer staff writer James D. Walsh, explores the rampant AI cheating going on in college. Students seemingly can’t function without using artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT to complete assignments. Maybe even worse, these students don’t see a problem […] The post Take It From a Woman: Using AI Isn’t Sexy appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
We live for the thrill of a sale that sneaks up on us — and that’s exactly what we have at Abercrombie & Fitch today, where they’re hosting a huge sale on shorts and swimwear, marked down by 30%. The brand re-emerged in the last few years as an absolute menswear beast, and its bottoms […] The post Shorts and Swim Are on Sale at Abercrombie & Fitch appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
The Old Fashioned calls for three dashes of Angostura bitters, and the Manhattan demands two. A truly quintessential Martini sings with a dash of orange bitters, and a Sazerac isn’t a Sazerac without four dashes of Peychaud’s. It’s easy to question the impact of an ingredient that gets added in such small doses, but bitters […] The post The Homemade Bar: DIY Bitters Will Make Your Cocktails Pop appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
New men’s grooming brands launch all the time nowadays. With more guys putting thought into their moisturizers, shaving creams and grooming tools, it’s only natural that the market is expanding. It can often be challenging to weed through the buzz and find effective brands or products that cater to your specific needs and, overall, figure […] The post The Best Grooming Brands to Know Right Now appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the chaos that’s been unfolding at Newark International Airport during the past week. It all kicked off with a brief system outage — just 30 to 90 seconds — but in that short window, air traffic controllers lost contact with all inbound flights. That’s […] The post Why This Latest Air Traffic Controller Kerfuffle Should Scare You appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
After adding Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Stand-Up Comedian on Television categories for last year’s ceremony, the Golden Globes have announced another new addition for next year’s awards: Best Podcast. This is the first major award show to recognize achievement in podcasting. (There are plenty of smaller honors like the Webby Awards and […] The post The Golden Globes Are Adding a Podcast Category for 2026 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Hotel bars are some of the best places in the world to drink. The Carousel Bar at Hotel Monteleone New Orleans rotates as bartenders swirl Sazeracs. The Connaught Hotel in London has its roving martini cart. Bemelmans Bar in New York serves its Martini with a sidecar. But somehow, the attention to beverages never seems to […] The post We’re in the Golden Age of the Hotel Minibar appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Kate Connolly & Caroline Davies, The Guardian On the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe, survivors, including veterans from both sides, remember what happened [...]
Staff, Warfare History Network During the last days of the Third Reich and the immediate aftermath of World War II in Europe, the Allied hunt for the high-ranking Nazis closest to the [...]
James Powel, USA Today German soldier and Chief of the Operations Staff Alfred Jodl flanked by his aide on the left and Grand Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeburg on the right, signs the [...]
Matthew Smith, YouGov A new YouGov survey examines European and American attitudes towards World War 2, with an accompanying study looking at expectations for future conflicts. [...]
George Litchfield, BBC News Stuart Green and Roger Churchill met during the 80th anniversary of the escape from Stalag Luft III. [...]
Christoph Hasselbach, DW World War Two ended in Europe 80 years ago. Since then, the US has ensured security in Europe. But Donald Trump is now calling this arrangement into question. [...]
Staff, Reuters ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI, May 7 (Reuters) - India said it [...]
Ved Shinde, Providence Mag Addressing the Overseas Pakistani Convention in Islamabad on April 16th, Pakistan's army chief General Asif Munir [...]
Lesley Kennedy, HISTORY The name symbolizes a new beginning and hints future direction. [...]
Frank Cogliano, RealClearHistory On April 30th, 1803, American diplomats in Paris reached an agreement with the French government to purchase the Louisiana Territory for approximately $16 [...]
Joshua J. Mark, World History Encyclopedia The Immortal Ten were a group of abolitionists from Kansas Territory (where slavery was hotly contested) who slipped across the Missouri River into [...]
Claire Turrell, NatGeo Music and performance bans in Cambodia and Saudi Arabia sparked resistance, and led to new eras of identity expression and underground scenes. [...]
Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]
Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]
Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]
Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]
Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]
Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]
Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]
Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]
A few drops of saliva can now reveal what used to require a scalpel, a syringe or a scan.Scientists have developed ways to analyze spit for the tiniest traces of illness – from mouth cancer to diabetes, and even brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. Unlike blood tests or biopsies, saliva is easy to collect, painless and inexpensive. During the COVID pandemic, some countries used saliva-based testing for rapid screening.read more [...]
Humans are the only species on earth that uses language, combining sounds into words and words into sentence with infinite meanings. We do this using linguistic rules for calls and sentence structure. "A dog eats" tells us one thing while "a big dog" means another while "you're such a dog" from a friend at the bar means something else completely.Humans have mastered syntax.How did that evolve? The comparative approach, comparing the vocal production of other primates, with that of humans, provides some answers. Other primates typically use a single call type while some species combine calls, it is mostly as an [...]
U.S. policy when it comes to science can be a little confusing. Over 20 years ago, one political party demanded that drugs and devices undergo far more testing before approval. It was a common belief among the more conspiracy-minded that FDA was colluding with right-wing corporations to get products passed.read more [...]
As the Trump administration continues to make significant cuts to NIH budgets and personnel and to freeze billions of dollars of funding to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being threatened than just progress in science and medicine. Something valuable but often overlooked is also being hit hard: preventing research abuse.read more [...]
Anecdotal stories claim U.S. tourism has plummeted due to Republican tariffs and enforcing immigration the way Europe and Asia do, and it will ruin the American economy. If that was true, lawmakers in America's most Democratic state, Hawaii, wouldn't have added another tariff. This one aimed solely at tourists. SB 1396 added a whopping 11% tariff for cruise ships that dock in a Hawaiian port and increased the hotel tariff to 19% of the room rate. The Governor has already said he would sign it once his supermajority passes it. Tourists also pay a 5% extra tariff on everything just for breathing Hawaiian [...]
Homeopathic levels of plastic are the latest environmental scaremongering fad (Nanoplastics! Microplastics!) dominating partisan corporate media when they are not suddenly simping for Trickle Down Economics, Vaccines, and Capitalism they distrusted just a short while ago.Naturally, companies are rushing to keep you safe from plastic which can be detected in everything. If you want to detect it in your home and annoy your family talking about how much virtual cancer you want to avoid, A McGill team fired up the 3-D printer and made the hollow-laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (HoLDI-MS) test platform. That's right, a plastic detector made from...plastic.read more [...]
Last year, companies began to pull back from promoting their Diversity Equity Inclusion efforts and social justice activists blamed the incoming Trump administration. It has been a violation of federal law to discriminate for 60 years so to moderates it seemed odd to add a layer of discrimination in hiring, even one deemed positive. And they never considered it may have instead been done at all due to pressure from the previous administration.The backlash was entirely predictable, but in both cases it was on the fringes. For no benefit, corporate CEOs were ignoring the 'stay out of it unless your [...]
Some psychologists believe our brains and bodies don’t just understand music, we become it. We physically resonate with it. They call their belief Neural Resonance Theory (NRT). They use Theory is in the name, but it is not a theory like gravity or evolution, the proper name means it is more like String Theory. An idea that needs scientific rigor to be shown true. NRT maintains that rather than relying on learned expectations or prediction, musical experiences arise from the brain’s natural oscillations that sync with rhythm, melody and harmony. read more [...]
Nature is out to kill everything, it is the circle of life, and that is why replanting rainforest without including some termites is counter-intuitively bad, finds a new paper.The balance of nature doesn't exist and believing that plant diversity alone will work is in defiance of how ecosystems work. That may mean introducing termites. There is a certainly NIMBYism that will occur, just like wealthy elites who oppose nuclear energy and claim wind power is viable hire a phalanx of lawyers to block wind projects near their homes. A company or agency spending money on new trees isn't going to [...]
A new simulation claims small-micron particulate matter, so small you need an electron microscope to see it, is killing 250,000 people each year. PM10, 10 microns in size, is a well-known killer. That is wildfires and smog but after smog was drastically reduced in the 1990s, the target went down 400%, to 2.5. Suddenly air quality maps could be orange and red again, even though the air is cleaner in wealthier countries than it has been since the 1980s.read more [...]
Early in 2020, the President of the United States said America should cut travel from China due to COVID-19 concerns. This was dismissed as xenophobia by states like New York and California, because the World Health Organisation had not declared it a pandemic.(1)In Europe, 18 countries knew better than to wait for WHO to ignore claims from China that it was not a pandemic and closed their borders.read more [...]
In a new study, researchers found that the polyphenol fisetin helps protect blood vessels from hardening, which is a common problem in older adults and people with kidney disease. If eventually validated in human trials, it might mean it could prevent vascular calcification and reduce cardiovascular damage caused by aging and chronic kidney disease. Fisetin is in the flavonols family and is found naturally in fruits and vegetables but is also sold as an unvalidated supplement outside FDA testing.Created with Discovery Studio Visualizer.read more [...]
With retaliatory tariffs against the EU and countries like China and Brazil, there has been concern about how much medical commerce originates from overseas.It certainly does, and safety has long been an overlooked concern. Organic food has gotten a free pass, but that is just a USDA marketing gimmick so if 25% of it is fraudulent, no one is harmed, but medicines and devices can risk lives. American companies are forced to undergo 12,000 surprise inspections to insure safety but countries exporting to the US have enjoyed a double-standard. They demanded and got only 3,000 scheduled inspections.read more [...]
No doctor tells patients to smoke cigarettes "in moderation", they are a known carcinogen and not smoking cigarettes is one of the top three ways to prevent lifestyle diseases. Yet culture has been grabbed by twin pincers when it comes to alcohol. American women are told if they have a glass of wine their child may get fetal alcohol syndrome while everyone else will be fine with alcohol in moderation.(1)read more [...]
Albert Einstein has been proven right many times but some things his equations predicted have yet to be shown to be science and yet remain part of the popular consciousness about science.Like a "singularity", where the laws of physics cease to apply, at the heart of black holes. Though Karl Schwarzschild found an exact solution to Einstein's 1915 general relativity equations, which implied the existence of extreme objects now known as black holes, mass so concentrated that nothing — not even light — can escape their gravitational pull (thus "black"), the physics community remain unconvinced. For over 100 years many even found [...]
An old saying goes that 'character is what you are in the dark', which is a way of stating that how you'd behave if no one was there to see you is really who you are outside the world of surveys.read more [...]
You can't really be friends with a gorilla, but it's still easier than beating one in a fight, even if you are the 100th person trying. They are all really tough whereas an alarming number of human males buy organic beard cream but one thing they share in common is that some are more social and some are less.read more [...]
Americans like to be outraged by things, in 2025 the right is outraged by seed oils while the left is outraged about lack of capitalism, but older civilizations wanted people to stay calm.When we think of the Andes today, we may think of the Incas, but they were colonizers just like Spain. Some 2,000 years before the Inca the Chavín had extensive farms and art and architecture throughout what Europeans later named Peru. And they did it with a lot less violence than most other prehistorical cultures on the continent.(1)read more [...]
For the third time in 9 years I am visiting San Pedro de Atacama, a jewel in the middle of nowhere in northern Chile. The Atacama desert is a stretch of extremely dry land at high altitude, which makes it exceptionally attractive for astronomical activities. In its whereabouts, e.g., are some of the largest telescopes in the world - the Cerro Paranal Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the planned Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) now being built in Cerro Armazones. And I have news that an even larger telescope, tentatively dubbed RLT for Ridiculously Large Telescope, is being planned in the [...]
An ancient legal principle has become a key strategy of American children seeking to reduce the effects of climate change in the 21st century. A defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2025 has not stopped the effort, which has several legal actions continuing in the courts.The legal basis for these cases is called the “public trust doctrine,” the principle that certain natural resources – historically, navigable waters such as lakes, rivers and streams and the lands under them – must be maintained in government ownership and held in trust for present and future generations of the public. read [...]
