God Bless America. The land of the politically correct. A nation at constant war. And, since it launched the War on Terror in 2001, has spent $6 trillion to kill and maim millions of innocent civilians and destroy entire nations. Yes, politically correct America! So correct that not one politician running for national office in the 2018 midterm elections uttered...

Freedom of speech? Freedom of Expression? Forget about it! From the United States to China, from New Zealand to Nepal, Censorship is a megatrend. For well over a year, social media giants and governments have been silencing voices that challenge establishment agendas. For example, last September, the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org) accused Google of censoring left-wing, anti-war and socialist...

The Baby Boomer Generation are babies no more! From Davy Crockett and Leave it to Beaver, to Dick Clark, the Beatles and Motown, they are now heading to Notown. Broke, busted, overweight, how many will live with their children, die at home alone or end up as inmates in nursing homes? How many of the boomers will live long healthy,...

It’s a rapidly growing American trend that is spreading across the globe: An obesity epidemic that is spawning costly and devastating health, social, cultural and economic conditions that will worsen in 2019 and beyond. Despite what is being promoted on the surface as a growing, promising healthy food movement, in America, and in many other countries, more people are becoming...

Imagine. It’s 1933 in America, Prohibition ends and it’s now legal to manufacture, sell and drink alcohol and it’s the beginning of a booming industry. In 2019, the legalization of marijuana in many states and the new federal Farm Bill that will legalize hemp will open the floodgates of explosive growth for both the marijuana and hemp industries that, because...

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth. Guess the King James Bible got it wrong. Must have been a typo. The Geeks, “a person that is socially awkward… a person of an intellectual bent that is disliked by others,” not the Meeks, have inherited the earth. The blessed Geeks have transformed every aspect of 21st century life,...

It’s a more and more common experience: you walk up to the counter in a store or fast food joint and the young person at the counter just stares at you blankly – no greeting, no effect, like a feral creature in its habitat, stunned with shock that you’ve appeared. It’s a consequence of an “unsocial media” in an era...

In 2019, as global economies slow and consumer tastes change, more notable brands will be buried in the retail grave yard. From Sears, Campbell’s, Harley Davidson, J.C. Penny, K-Mart, Wheaties, Chef Boyardee, Hamburger Helper – to Ken-L-Ration and a whole line of canned and packaged dog foods that only Rin Tin Tin would eat and no dog lover would feed...

For more than a decade, biologists have been using microscopic worms to test ways to lengthen life. That work has paid off, this time by finding a combination of drugs that almost doubled worms’ healthy lifespans. A team at Singapore’s Yale-NUS College worked with Caenorhabditis elegans, lifeline researchers’ favorite worm. They reviewed past studies to identify biological processes associated with...

A major obstacle to building efficient robotic devices, especially small ones, is fitting them out with the electronics – and the requisite power source – they need to communicate with other gadgets or to a home base. Now they can go circuit-free. Engineers at the University of Washington have devised a way to let machines that aren’t electronic communicate wirelessly...