Among some people, a faith vacuum and distrust of AI has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like ghosts and astrology, while in others, a science vacuum has led to increased belief in suspect ideas like epidemiology and correlation.
In 1989, the communist dictatorship oddly named Union of Soviet Socialist Republics reached the extent of a third giant hole in the Arctic Circle, Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3, where they'd been drilling for 19 years. It clocked in at nearly 8 miles deep.
A silver lining for California politicians panicking about the federal government no longer paying the state to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants is that there may be fewer of them using ERs
Good luck making a Disney film out of the 34 stories so disliked by readers they were removed after the first edition.
California AB 2244 is law and marketing executives at Organic food companies are preparing to buy new mansions. Because if a grocery store carries an "ultraprocessed" food item they are now required to take up shelf space for a boutique alternative.
Flooding has long been an unpredictable event, as poorly understood as hurricanes or any weather. That may no longer be the case.
Climate change has been implicated in the lack of hurricanes this year, but there may be an upside to doom from fewer atmospheric disasters. If you worry about microplastics, PM2.5, or other homeopathy, it means less of those also.
Make sure the conspiracy theory about diseases being caused by corn syrup, microwave ovens, and oatmeal but cured by his ozone therapy and a heavy metal detox is sold by the real Dr. Hyman and not a fake one.
"Whole earth farming” practices are a popular new government mandate. And they will wreck small farmers.
If you use a chiropractor, the medical guidance you should follow is to stop going to a chiropractor. But if you believe in organic food, homeopathy or that medicine is a corporate conspiracy, there is good news about your risk of dying from spinal manipulation.
A new paper links fake eyelashes to demodicosis - parasites living in your eyes. How worried should you be?
Electric cars are currently limited in utility, which means continued government subsidies and high cost, because battery technology has not changed in the last 35 years.
Unless you are a cigarette smoker, you can't be 'inhaling' enough polypropylene and polyethylene to impact your lungs even if you live for 7,000 years. That doesn't stop fad claims that microplastics cause lung cancer.
