The one big message 2011’s Occupy Wall Street protests brought to light was income inequality: how the 1 percent owns so much and how the rest of civilization owns so little. A new study by the RAND Corporation, in collaboration with the Fair Work Center, has clarified just how much the vast majority of Americans...
The analytics company Gallup has been polling Americans on their opinions of various businesses and industries. This year’s poll, which came out on 3 September, states, “For the first time in Gallup’s 20 years of tracking Americans’ views of various business and industry sectors, farming and agriculture is the clear leader.” Farming and agriculture had...
Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, said last week that he trusts “science” and will trust a vaccine after it is approved by top health officials, but he said he puts no stock in what President Trump says about advances in the search for an inoculation. Biden’s comments are not surprising and follow in...
The U.S. State Department has not addressed the legal ramifications of selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and could be increasing its exposure to war-crimes charges for top U.S. officials, according to a report last week. The New York Times reported that President Obama’s State Department first raised the issue back in 2016, during the air...
BODYBUILDERS’ SUPPLEMENT STALLS AGING Alpha-ketoglutarate (AKG), a supplement bodybuilders use to bulk up, has delayed the symptoms of aging and extended healthspans in mice, researchers at California’s Buck Institute for Research on Aging have found. AKG occurs naturally in mammals, including humans, and is a compound needed to convert food into energy. Physicians sometimes prescribe...
IBM has announced a “road map” that will lead it to build a 1,000-qubit quantum computer by 2023. The state of the art now: a year ago, Google claimed its 53-qubit quantum computer solved in 200 seconds a calculation that would have taken a conventional supercomputer 10,000 years to complete. IBM’s plan is to build...
Schools, corporate headquarters, and other institutions are stocking up on bleach and microsprayers and are hiring extra staff to constantly clean surfaces where the COVID virus may lurk. Now Corvus Robotics has found a way to eliminate all that extra work and gear. The Boston-based drone maker has devised a robot that stops coronaviruses with...
U.S. Attorney William Barr compared slavery to the coronavirus lockdowns during an appearance in Virginia last week where he talked about the history of intrusions on civil liberties. “Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest,” Mr. Barr said during an even at Hillsdale College in Northern Virginia. “It’s… you know, other than...
A very important aspect of self-defense is learning how to use objects on hand as expedient weapons. First, because in a crisis, whatever may be right in front of you – on your desk or dinner table, possibly on a shelf (if you are in a store, etc.) – will offer you the advantage of...