American Produce has Lost As Much As 80% of Its Nutrition Since the 1950s
If you wanted to replicate the vitamin A content of an orange grown in 1940s America, one would have…
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Warrantless FBI Data Searches and CDC Mass Data Collection Highlights Level of American Surveillance
In its Annual Statistical Transparency Report, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence admitted to running 3.4 million…
Physical Activity For Work Shortens Lifespan: For Leisure Extends It
Not all squats are created equal. The one you do to sculpt your legs, stay fit, or warm up…
NATO’s Nazis: Full-Blooded Racial Purist Militias Pictured with UK Rocket Launchers
PICTURED: Azov Battalion members inspect NATO-made weaponry. PC: NEXTA, retrieved from Twitter. As WaL reported recently, persistent accusations of…
The Gut Microbiome Contributes to Social Dominance
A certain type of bacteria, combined with one of the most short-chain fatty acids in the human body, seems…
Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Gets a Chance at A Fresh Start Through Restoration
PICTURED: Trilha da Figueira Nature Reserve in Brazil’s Paraná state. PC: João P. Burini. CC 4.0. The oft-ignored middle-child…
Brain Speed Doesn’t Begin to Decline Until Age 60
Mental processing speed does not start to decline until age 60, according to analysis of over a million participants…
Sitting in Front of the TV Increases Risk of Death Even Among Active People
While watching Netflix, a film, or sports after a day at work can be a desirable way to relax,…
Scientists Discover A New Coral Reef—One of the Largest and Most Pristine on Earth
PICTURED: Alexis Rosenfeld photographs deep-water corals off Tahiti. PC: UNESCO/Alexis Rosenfeld/1 Ocean ©. Released. A field of rose shaped…
Millions of Hectares of Rainforest Spared From Development by Indonesian Government: Conservationists Remain Wary
PICTURED: Revoked oil palm plantation permits total 1.7 million hectares. On January 6th, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced that…
There Were 31 Ship-Mounted Nuclear Weapons In Play in The Falklands War: Declassified Files Show
PICTURED: British warships, pennants painted over, off Gibraltar in March 1982, heading for the Falklands. PC: Pete Reeves CC…
Apparent Sacrificing of Secondary Forests is Saving Virgin Ones
PICTURED: A slash and burn agriculture landscape in the Amazon. PC: Matt Zimmerman. CC 2.0. Year over year increases…
The Great Blue Wall Initiative: COP26 Countries Protect Biodiversity and Use of Oceans
One of the lesser-discussed features of COP26 was the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), announcing a…
Palm Oil Fatty Acids Linked With Colorectal, Breast, Skin, Mouth, and Prostate Cancers
Palmitic acid, the world-changing fatty acid in palm oil, has been shown in recent years of research to induce,…
Here’s What We Learned from the Moon Rocks China Recently Brought Back on Chang’e-5
PICTURED: The Chang’e-5 return module sits on the snow-covered ground in Inner Mongolia, smoldering from its reentry into Earth’s…
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…
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,…