1+ week, 4+ day ago   (795+ words) The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports followed, and the worst of it hit the city’s west…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (462+ words) In 2009, with a Democrat back in the White House, corporate science and medical journal publishers asked Rep. John Conyers, Jr. of Detroit, a staunch ally of President Obama, to get the new president to issue an executive order and undo…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (284+ words) He didn't call it a Moonshot or a Manhattan Project of Space, that is the kind of language his political opponents use(1), President Trump announcing a U.S. Space Academy invoked something even bolder - Star Trek. Unlike the Star Wars universe, you…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (708+ words) Like ultraprocessed foods, there is no scientific definition for “appropriated racial oppression” but one thing all seeking to define it share in common is blaming feelings of oppression on normative white ideals in society. Basically, there are no white supremacists…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (527+ words) The world has spent $9,000,000,000,000 on alternatives to energy and has very little to show for it. The share of conventional energy has dropped by 0.2% while 2,000,000,000 people still use dung and wood as cooking fuel in homes - because the World Bank…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (175+ words) Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen but if you are going to roll the dice with cancer, tariffs have made it more affordable. In 2018, the Trump administration began to place retaliatory tariffs on countries that had been penalizing American producers…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (878+ words) Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This “climate doom” narrative can dominate the news cycle, particularly on social media, which is known…...