By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato We are not in the least troubled by those who choose to disdain the kind of serious, vicious and brutal attitudinal and technical approach to self-defense that we and our Associate Teachers espouse. Just don’t expect us to sanction, endorse, support, or accept it. We approach self-defense in the...
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HOT FUSION CREEPS CLOSER TO VIABILITY
Physicists working on hot fusion, which seeks to unleash limitless energy by fusing hydrogen atoms together in chambers heated to the temperature of the surface of the Sun, have struggled for decades to make their technology work, despite billions of private and taxpayer dollars invested and serial claims of “breakthroughs.” (See “Nuclear Fusion,” Trends Journal,...
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FECAL TRANSPLANTS REVERSE SYMPTOMS OF AGING IN MICE
Research scientists have discovered that your microbiome—the complex ecosystem of microbes that live in your intestinal tract—controls not only a range of aspects about your physical health, but also your state of mind. Now a team working from University College Cork in Ireland has shown that what goes on down there also could reverse key...
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OAK RIDGE AUTOMATES BATTERY RECYCLING
With demand for rare earth metals and other components for electric vehicle (EV) batteries exploding and supplies shrinking, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has tested one possible solution. It created an automated disassembly line for used EV batteries. Even though EVs make up a sliver of the world’s vehicle fleet, there’s a growing backlog of...
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FACEBOOK’S DIGITAL WALLET POISED FOR LAUNCH
Novi, Facebook’s digital wallet, has received licenses or regulatory approval in “nearly every state” and is now “ready to come to market,” David Marcus, who has spearheaded the company’s foray into digital currencies, wrote in an 18 August memo quoted by the Financial Times. The wallet will allow persons to transfer money between themselves directly,...
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BITCOIN ETFs IN PREP AS SEC HIGHLIGHTS PATH TO APPROVAL
This month, asset managers Galaxy Digital, Invesco, ProShares, Valkyrie Digital, and VanEck have filed applications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The applications were filed after SEC chair Gary Gensler signaled that the agency would look favorably on funds that traded futures for Bitcoin only, not cryptocurrencies...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A SHORT PATH FROM COVID VAX TECH TO GENETIC WEAPONS File under another handy use of genetic info and experimental COVID vax tech: wipe out adversaries. Widespread genetic collection from human populations has been going on for years. People literally pay to give themselves away. Though they have benign reasons—wanting to know more about their...
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HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY: A FOLLOW-UP
Last week the Trends Journal detailed some of the ways Big Tech corporations have propagated their monopolies, in areas including social media, cloud storage and website services, e-commerce, advertising communication, and app development sales and distribution. (See “HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY,” 17 August 2021) A new guest column by Ken Blackwell at the...
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
KYB: KNOW YOUR BLOCKCHAIN. Who writes to the blockchain, controls it. One of the major differences in different blockchain networks is whether the blockchain is “permissionless” or “permissioned.” Other terms, like “public” and “private,” “transparent,” “anonymous,” “pseudonymous” and “KYC” (know your customer), also come into play. What does it all mean, and why does it...
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EL SALVADOR CRYPTO WALLETS READY IN SEPTEMBER
No thanks to the World Bank, El Salvador’s government backed bitcoin wallet will be available for download by citizens in early September. The Central American country made history by being the first in the world to formally specify Bitcoin cryptocurrency as legal tender. Though central banks that lend to countries and are used to profiting...