Why was there no breaking news on CNN? Or iPhone alerts saying a city-busting asteroid was coming closer to us than any that big in decades? Because we have a blind spot… By David Sussin On December 25, 2024, you were not alerted by the news that an asteroid two-thirds
Big pharma is not yet capable of separating the potential cure part of their pills from the potential kill parts. By Egon E. Mosum For anyone watching a commercial touting the benefits of a new prescription drug designed to cure a specific ill, it’s no surprise that the majority
The challenge with global warming may not be our ability to adjust to the hotter climate, but the deadly toxins that thrive in it. Millions of people will die from viral infections this year. You know their names – the killers are infamous. They make the front page: COVID-19, Ebola, rabies,
We may have been listening for the wrong signal this whole time. If extraterrestrials on a distant planet tried to signal us, how would they do it? We're betting big it will be through an electromagnetic signal. Specifically, we're listening for microwaves. Higher in frequency than
The agencies that collect tax revenue have access to a tremendous amount of our personal information — starting with our social security number. We assume that these employees are honest. Sometimes yes, and sometimes, these employees steal and commit fraud… By Egon E. Mosum For those who receive paychecks, it’s
By Egon E. Mosum September 15, 1916 was the first birthday of the use of tanks in war. The tank was of British make, and was appropriately known as the Mark I. It was used in the battle of the Somme in France in World War I, and no doubt
One of the great pleasures in life, right up there with root canal work, is the buying or leasing of a new or used car from a dealership. By Egon E. Mosum One of the great pleasures in life, right up there with root canal work, is the buying or
Is the addition of fluoride to our water sources is a benefit to our health, or a detriment? This fight is over eighty years old, and in the middle of the twentieth century, it was not only a battle over health issues, but to some, a political struggle… By Egon
One of the more common fairy tales is the conspiracy theory that we never went to the Moon, never landed there and that supposed ‘giant leap for mankind’ was a false step taken on a sound stage. By Egon E. Mosum There are a lot of songs that have ‘Moon’
Chat Bots don’t need a physical weapon to kill you. They can just convince you to do it yourself. To fully manipulate you to such horrible extremes, the AI has to understand who you are. It needs to learn your personality traits, know what buttons to push to make
We still don't have a final answer whether COVID-19 originated from a wild animal in a market or a caged one in a laboratory. We do know one thing: the virus came from a bat. Well, we're not 100% certain about the bat, but all evidence
The latest initiative from DARPA is MAGICS. It stands for Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems. DARPA isn’t satisfied with its ability to predict human behavior on a large scale, so it has developed a dedicated to come up with a better way… By David Sussin One