History shows that war rarely breaks out in times of widespread prosperity (fat & happy). When economic conditions deteriorate, civil unrest, revolution, and international conflict tend to follow. This isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s a pattern observable across centuries of global history. As economies contract, public frustration mounts, and long-simmering grievances resurface with explosive…
AI Workloads Push Data Center Water Use to Nearly One Trillion Liters Annually The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence workloads has driven U.S. data center water consumption to nearly one trillion liters per year, according to industry reports and investigative analyses. The figure marks a significant increase from prior years, with cooling systems accounting for…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision on June 25 shielding Bayer, the maker of Roundup, from claims it failed to warn of the weedkiller’s cancer risk could do more than close the courthouse door on tens of thousands of lawsuits. It pushes the national fight over paraquat — linked for decades to Parkinson’s disease —…
“You just wait until the next bear market…” Last month, I talked about how many of the legendary investors I’ve long followed as well as many of my contemporary financial commentators (speaking specifically of the contrarian ilk), are almost unanimous in the opinion that the AI trade is well into bubble territory and stocks in…
Forecasts of AI’s future impacts must be viewed with skepticism, as AI and its promoters are adept at saying what we want to hear rather than telling us the discomfiting truth, as the truth might prompt us to turn AI off. Small business owner and San Francisco correspondent ‘Sparx Eightthreetwo’ (found on facebook under the…
The war between Russia and Ukraine fell through the cracks a little when the United States and Israel started a war with Iran back in February. However, Ukraine and Russia are still very much locked in a war, as Kiev used drones to strike a major Russian oil refinery overnight. Back in late June, Ukraine…
The news landed like a thunderclap in a San Francisco conference room on June 30, 2026. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the cutting-edge Claude model, announced it will launch its own preclinical drug-discovery programs targeting neglected diseases, including rare conditions, while simultaneously unveiling Claude Science, an AI workbench built for researchers and drug-makers. This development…
Did you know that the number of Americans that are out of work right now is far higher than it was at any point during the Great Recession? I know that sounds crazy, but I will prove it to you in this article. A whopping 111 million Americans do not have a job, and we…
Story at-a-glance Autism needs to be approached as a system; systems biology looks at everything in biology as a web where everything is connected. When you tug at one part of the web, the rest of the web changes Dr. Martha Herbert believes autism develops in response to environmental factors that irritate and excite the…
Metaplanet added 2,823 BTC in the second quarter to reach 43,000 Bitcoin, becoming the world’s third-largest corporate Bitcoin treasury behind Strategy and Twenty One Capital. Metaplanet crossed the 43,000 BTC threshold on July 2, a milestone that places the Tokyo-listed firm as the world’s third-largest corporate Bitcoin holder. The company now trails Strategy and Twenty One Capital…
