Checking for bacteria on a regular basis, like every maintenance task on the station, was crucial. And on this particular mission, the crew found a strain among the microbial samples they didn't recognize. By David Sussin If you've seen any movie about people on a space
Before 1970, there were guidelines on how much waste a company could dump in a river, or pump in the air. But there was no enforcement, no laws with teeth. But there’s one problem the creation of the EPA didn’t address… By David Sussin In 1969, there was
There is a cabal plotting to control the world. But it's not who you might think. In 1954, it really seemed like that secret, Illuminati-level group was the Bilderberg Conference. The name comes from the hotel where they first met, Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands. The
A study published last month uncovered a disturbing change to life on Earth. And it's not predicted to happen sometime in the future -- it's already happened… By David Sussin If humanity is going to be destroyed by climate change, it's likely millions of years
Our current AI models handle complex challenges, like predicting how a sequence of amino acids folds into a complex 3D protein structure. But it will get simple math problems wrong. And it will state the wrong answer with complete confidence. By David Sussin Since the 1950's we'
The possibilities are astounding for curing diseases before they happen. Of course, the ways it can be used for harm are equally astounding… By David Sussin It's now possible to edit your DNA. You can't stretch out a single string of DNA nucleotides and grab a
By Egon E. Mosum Dracula may have had certain insights we don’t, showing us the advantage of living five centuries. He said he never drank… wine. After reading this article, you might give that perspective some serious thought. Not all that glistens is gold and not every bottle that
Luxury costs a lot, but fake luxury costs only a little. Although fake, it can create an image of wealth, provided the fake goods aren’t too closely inspected by an expert. It’s quantity over quality in the kingdom of the knockoffs, and there are plenty of ready, willing
The K-1 visa is the golden ticket to legal residency and labor certification in our country. For men who may not be Hugh Hefner with the ladies at home, they can be attractive to the tired, poor and huddled female masses eager to get the hell out of their
For more than a century man has envisioned life from off the planet as large-eyed and large-brained gray beings. But maybe they didn’t come from outer space. Maybe they originated here on Earth - then mutated in outer space, before returning to Earth… By Egon E Mosum When
By Egon E Mosum If there’s one law that’s constant throughout the land, it is Murphy’s Law — whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. In consideration of Mr. Murphy, we obtain insurance. Life insurance, health insurance, property and casualty insurance, errors and omissions, all kinds of insurance
As soon as scientists understood the process, they were obsessed with replicating it. Suddenly, it might be possible to harness the power of the Sun. What does that mean for humans on Earth…? By David Sussin In one second, the Sun releases more energy than humans have used in all