According to The Daily Mail, a declassified CIA document is raising concerns that the agency purposely suppressed information that could have been a valuable tool in treating cancer: A newly surfaced CIA document suggests US intelligence once reviewed research that hinted at a possible cancer treatment more than 60 years ago. The document, produced in February 1951 and declassified in 2014, summarizes a Soviet scientific paper that examined striking similarities between para

It was 10:30 A.M. I was getting the reports ready for the upcoming management team meeting, running through the last of the quarterly newsletter details in my head and eyeballing a file on my desk that needed attention. So I was both surprised and slightly annoyed when the President of the company (my boss) and a fellow senior manager walked into my office. It wasn’t like my boss to just walk in and initiate a meeting. If he wanted to discuss something, he usually emailed, t

Why I Changed My Mind About Pumpernickel I used to dismiss pumpernickel as just another heavy, odd-tasting bread that belonged in a dusty European deli case. Whenever I saw that dense, dark loaf, I assumed it was all marketing hype -- a shadow of real food that had been stripped of its soul by industrial processing. But after years of researching nutrition, fermentation and traditional foodways, I have completely flipped my understanding. This is not shadow food. It is a genu

A hunter was seriously injured in a brown bear attack in northern Japan. According to NHK World-Japan and Dot Dot News, the incident occurred in Shimamaki Village in Hokkaido on Sunday, April 26, where a group of five hunters entered a mountainous area for a "spring culling hunt" aimed at reducing the wild bear population near residential communities. Local officials reported that a 69-year-old man was attacked by a bear that he and others had shot. The animal reportedly roll

If you had to name the most dangerous place in the Solar System, you’d probably start with the obvious suspects. The Sun, with its searing temperatures and violent eruptions, where solar flares and coronal mass ejections blast charged particles across the Solar System powerful enough to disrupt satellites, damage infrastructure, and, in extreme cases, cripple electrical grids. Maybe Earth’s sister planet and “molten hellhole” Venus, where it rains highly concentrated sulfuric

Bartering is a way to exchange goods or services without using money. It has successfully helped communities thrive for thousands of years and may prove highly valuable during a crisis. Living in a “currency based” economy we may have lost this valuable skill. How do I prepare to successfully barter in a disaster scenario? To successfully barter during a crisis you must develop a set of basic skills, build physical resources, and develop good working relationships today. The

There were early signs during the third week of the U.S.-Iran conflict that EV demand was gaining traction in Asia, where the energy shock has been felt the hardest. That was followed by a separate note earlier this month confirming that EV demand was beginning to reaccelerate. Now, Goldman analysts led by Kota Yuzawa see global EV demand gaining momentum after several years of muted demand, as the fuel-price shock at the pump pushes consumers back toward EVs. Yuzawa noted th

Have you heard? The White House just doubled funding to combat antibiotic resistance – citing it a major public health and economic threat. Luckily, you can help combat this problem in the grocery store. Our tips: Learn more about the effects of overusing antibiotics in factory farming. Then, next time you go grocery shopping, make sure you buy meat that’s labeled “raised without antibiotics” and/or “organic.” Right now, up to 70 percent of the antibiotics sold in the Un