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By Paul Morland “One hundred and forty-six million [people] for such a vast territory is insufficient,” said Vladimir Putin at the end of last year. Russians haven’t been having enough children to replace themselves since the early Sixties. Birth rates are also stagnant in the West, but in Russia the problem is compounded by excess...
By Constance Gustkenov Rick Cloud, 68, knew that he wanted to stay in his home in Austin, Tex., as he aged. But Mr. Cloud, who is divorced, was not sure how he could do that without relying on his two daughters. Then he ran across the idea of virtual retirement villages, whose members pay a...
By Brooke Cato Recent research suggests that humans consume about five grams of small plastic particles every week, which is about the weight of a credit card. The plastic particles make their way into the human food chain from packaging waste, entering the body through sea salt, seafood and even drinking water, scientists at the...
By Bryan Lufkin We’ve been taught to keep work and play apart. Yet more of us are still taking workcations, three years into the pandemic – and reaping the benefits. Even as the pandemic is ending, it looks like the trend could be here to stay. “After working from home for over a year, I...
By Christine Clark “Don’t swallow your gum, it’ll take seven years for your stomach to digest!” “Ah, just pick it up off the floor — five second rule!” Most of us grew up with wives’ tales such as these, and probably believed them. But, as we’ve gotten older and wiser, we’ve found that many of...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could mark a troubling shift: the end of a relatively peaceful global era. Though it has not always felt like it, the world has since the 1990s endured less war than any other period in recorded history. Wars and resulting deaths plummeted with the conclusion of the Cold War in 1991...
By Sarah Durn In Ecuador, people spin tales of the one-legged protector of the Andes, La Patasola, a beautiful woman who leads unsuspecting men to their doom for damaging the environment. In Mexico, there is La Llorona, a grieving specter ready to steal your children out of grief at losing her own. In the mountains...
By Amit Malwar Previous research has suggested that all elementary particles store information about themselves, like the way humans have DNA. In a new paper from the University of Portsmouth, scientists propose an experimental protocol that allows for empirical verification of these theories. This new experiment could confirm the fifth form of matter and change...
By Chris Hedges The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalismwith freedom. In the name of national security, the...
By Suzanne Bearne Seventeen-year-old Robin West is an anomaly among her peers – she doesn’t have a smartphone. Instead of scrolling through apps like TikTok and Instagram all day, she uses a so-called “dumbphone”. These are basic handsets, or feature phones, with very limited functionality compared to say an iPhone. You can typically only make...
By Geoff Shullenberger Just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine consumed the media, New York Times columnist Jay Caspian Kang and Substacker Matthew Yglesias published near-simultaneous critiques of the notions of “disinformation” and “misinformation”. This convergence among prominent liberals was significant. These and related concepts like “fake news” have shaped press coverage of a range...
By Raúl Limón A new study demonstrates how a deficiency of coenzyme Q10, which charges our biological batteries, reduces mobility and the capacity for the generation of this vital molecule as you age. The Q10 coenzyme is vital. If cellular mitochondria are the body’s batteries, this lipid is their charger, being responsible for the transport...
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