International consumer goods conglomerate Unilever has fitted up a shipping container as a “nanofactory” to make basic consumer items such as mayonnaise and skin creams. If it works, the company will make a fleet of the traveling factories that can be quickly rigged up to test new product ideas or shipped on trucks or boats...
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PIG’S KIDNEY WORKS IN A HUMAN. HEARTS ARE NEXT.
Medical researchers have been eyeing pig parts as replacements for failing human organs for decades. Now they’ve made one work. Surgeons from New York University attached a pig’s kidney to blood vessels of a human patient who had been declared brain-dead. Over a two-day experiment, the kidney—which remained outside the person’s body—worked as well as...
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EV BATTERY RECYCLING IS NOW A THING
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), China’s largest maker of EV batteries, will invest $32 billion renminbi, or about $5 billion, in a new plant to unmake them. Chinese law requires battery makers to recycle their products when consumers have used them up and CATL is planning to make the most out of that directive....
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THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN A TIME OF MORAL AND SPIRITUAL BLACKOUT
By Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD In a recent opinion essay published on the pharmaceutical industry-friendly MedPage Today, Dr. Matthew Wynia, a medical ethics professor at the University of Colorado School of medicine, propagated an old trope by accusing doctors who advocate cheaper, effective drugs and natural supplements for treating Covid patients as a...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
PROSHARES BITCOIN ETF REAPS BENEFIT FROM BEING FIRST. Perhaps some day we’ll hear news of how one Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) managed to capture the first slot against a handful of others, gaining a competitive advantage. There’s no reason why the Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) couldn’t have arranged for several ETF proposals to...
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POLS EMBRACE CRYPTO CAMPAIGN FUNDING
There may not be much clarity from the SEC or Congress regarding cryptos, but politicians trying to rack up donations may be seeing the light. Several initiatives are in the works that would make it easier for candidates to add crypto to their campaign coffers. In Texas,the state ethics commission has suggested a new regulation...
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TURNING UP THE UNDERBANKED HEAT WITH CELSIUS
Celsius has become a hot CeFi platform for people to lend their crypto and earn interest, borrow, and perform other banking and investing activity. The hugely popular “London Real” video and podcast program recently featured Celsius, while profiling how a younger generation of users is moving away from traditional banking. Celsius touts itself as a...
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RUMBLE VIDEO PLATFORM GETS SOCIAL WITH LOCALS BUY
Locals, a video streaming service and social network supportive to free expression, has been bought by Rumble. Rumble already comprises a growing video platform, and the merger with Locals will increase its user base and offer more features, including subscription revenue options for creators. Locals was first launched in 2019 by podcaster and author Dave...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
SNOWDEN CASTS A DOUBTFUL EYE ON WORLDCOIN. The idea may have had its heart in the right place. But scanning eyes to capture biometric data in order for users to acquire a crypto called “Worldcoin” is no solution to better KYC (Know Your Customer) privacy issues, said privacy advocate Edward Snowden. Worldcoin has made a...
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CHINA WON’T STOP AT TAIWAN, SO WHERE SHOULD AMERICA DRAW THE LINE?
The CCP backed Global Times featured all of the following articles on its front page this past Friday, 22 October: “’Defend Taiwan’ can hardly be seen as a slip of the tongue, … The US would come to Taiwan’s defense if the island faces a Chinese mainland ‘incursion,’ US President Joe Biden confirmed …” “Biden...