Global Government Debt Joins U.S. Levels At Double that of GDP
The Fiscal Monitor, a yearly report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has found that at the end…
Category: Coffee Break Reads
The Brain Prefers to Create Memories Out of The Best Life Stories
As our life unfolds, the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for creating short term memories for long…
Forget Oil, This Company is Drilling for Magma
Theorized as a potential future center of volcanology on Earth, a “magma well” in remote Iceland is the site…
“State Secrets Privilege” Shields NSA from Lawsuit—Court of Appeals Ruled Wednesday
PICTURED: The NSA headquarters building at Fort Meade, Maryland. A U.S. court has upheld a three year-old dismissal of…
“The Fall of Kabul” Moment was Stark—As Could be the Fall of Baghdad
PICTURED: On the left, an image of the helicopter rescue from the Fall of Saigon, 1975. On the right,…
Perseverance Rover Captures First Rock Sample
PICTURED: The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken…
House Armed Services Committee Approves $24 Billion for a “Space National Guard”
In an already bloated military defense budget, the House Committee on Armed Forces recently marked up the National Defense…
If We Really Want to Save the World’s Biodiversity: Recognize Indigenous Land Rights
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
Perseverance Rover Drills Up Nothing: Why?
PICTURED: An image taken by the rover of the borehole made in the recent failed extraction. PC: NASA/JPL-Caltech. MARS.…
New Mexico Wilderness Area Grows by 50% After Largest-Ever Land Donation
Sabinoso Wilderness Area in New Mexico, an inaccessible and tiny refuge just 5 years ago, has grown by almost…
Oxford IPCC Panelist Admits Cow Methane is Not Honestly Accounted For
In a paper published last year, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change member and Oxford professor of geosystem science Myles…
Why in One of the Most Biodiverse Countries on Earth is Everyone Growing Rice?
PICTURED: Aerial view of the landscape around Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, Indonesia. Swidden farming dominates in…
A Diverse Supply Chain Could Save a City During a Food Shortage
A new paper published today in Nature shows that as the climate continues to change, cities can defend themselves…
No Life in Venus’ Clouds, Maybe in Jupiter’s?
PICTURED: An image of Venus showing the clouds, taken by the ultraviolet imager of the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki,…
China’s Rover Videotapes Itself Driving on Mars: a World’s First
Like NASA which landed its fifth Martian rover in February, China’s Zhurong rover touched down on the Red Planet…
UK Expected to Open Floodgates on Genetic Editing for Agriculture and Livestock – Opinions Abound
GMOs or Genetically-Modified Organisms, generally come in two forms. There are those which are modified to resist disease, normally…
Tests Confirm 100-Year Old Female Found in Galapagos is Last Surviving Fernandina Giant Tortoise
PICTURED: Fern, the one and only Fernandina giant tortoise. Photo credit: Galapagos Conservancy. After a year and change of…
THC and Cannabis Found to Give Relief to Chronic Itch When Nothing Else Would
Pruritus, or chronic itching, is characterized exactly as it’s called, by an unrelenting and sometimes even debilitating sensation to…
First Quarter Investments in Space Companies Increased 356% Since 2020
Partially due to a new financial mechanism, investments in space companies surged in a way few things have since…
Brown U. Reports $2.26 Trillion and 240,000 Lives Spent in Afghanistan
The latest group of researchers attempting to quantify the costs of the Afghan War, launched in the autumn of…