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"Imagine a personal heating system that works indoors as well as
outdoors, can be taken anywhere, requires little energy, and is
independent of any infrastructure. It exists – and is hundreds of years
old. The hot water bottle could save a great deal of energy and money
without sacrificing thermal comfort."  Read more

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"....the town with no traffic lights collected $487 in fines and forfeitures in 2020 for every man, woman and child, though many of those fined were merely passing by on I-22."
"Total town income more than doubled from 2018 to 2020 – from $582,000 to more than $1.2 million – as fines and forfeitures rose 640%." ...Read more

"The evolution of cooling technology helps to explain why supposed solutions to global warming have only made the situation worse." Read more

Image source: "New Students Reference Work, 1914 Brown Bros. - Wikimedia Commons" - Public Domain

Major disruptions in world history follow a clear pattern. What can upheavals of the past tell us about our own future? Read more

"Once aimed at small businesses, a 1990s-era tax break has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits" Read more

"When your emotions become too painful and overwhelming, regain control using skills from dialectical behaviour therapy". Read more

"Plastic production just keeps expanding, and now is becoming a driving cause of climate change"..... Read more

"A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint. It’s defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius (2.2 pounds by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). But when it comes to health and your body’s energy balance, not all calories are equal" Read more

What can the decline of the Roman Empire and the end of European feudalism tell us about COVID-19 and the future of the West? Read more
Image source: Unknown author - Public domain

"They can’t go to classes or prison jobs, and they don’t have tablets or televisions. But they do have radios" Click to read more
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"As Omicron surges, a shadowy institute filled with fringe doctors appears to be part of big business’ two-year strategy to legitimize attacks on pandemic interventions".....Read more

Source: The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nationally recognized watchdog that leads in-depth, award-winning investigations into the corruption that undermines our democracy, environment, and economic prosperity.

"As the planet rapidly warms, what happens in this icy region, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as the rest of the globe,
 increasingly affects lives around the world"... Read more