I am an Environmental Health and Safety Professional, as well as a science/technical writer for a variety of news and professional publications. I have been a citizen activist since 2009, and am one of the co-founders of the San Diego-based group, Southern California Tax Revolt Coalition.
The Great Lettuce Outbreak of 2026 is over, but America’s salad avoidance led to an unexpected problem....
Meanwhile, the head of the African CDC is pressuring African leaders to own the Ebola response....
"We're leading China in AI. We're the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins." ...
Anthropic report also detailed several Iran-linked cases in which Claude was used to support influence campaigns, surveillance efforts and research on U.S. naval activity....
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved the equation this week....
Chinese AI firms are carrying out an ‘industrial-scale’ theft of trade secrets while attempting to gin-up American concerns about data centers....
Prosecutors admits to ‘stunning’ mistake in freeing David Antonio Aviles Perez...
"Resolutions like this one and the ideological agenda they promote are barnacles on our work here and the reason this institution is losing its credibility." ...
Marcon's event is 'badly managed', has mainly been organized to showcase France, will not seriously direct European resources toward meaningful project support, and features European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as a speaker....
The Kenyan essay gig economy once brought in between $240 million to $960 million annually in gross payments. AI slaughtered that cash cow....
Six Indonesian volcanoes erupt simultaneously this week, including the famous “Child of Krakatau”....
Army Physician Dr. Theresa Long said she’s looking into whether 2,544 unverified deaths among service members....
Back in 2023, Gov. Newsom was touting the development of this resource as part of his Net-Zero vision....
Nepal’s request should be rejected unless the U.N. would likewise fund U.S. recovery from a San Andreas earthquake or Cascadia tsunami....
Secretary of War Hegseth stressed that this new initiative is “not about artificial enhancement” and framed screening as part of an investment in “the individual warfighter.”...
Talarico's remarks linking capitalism to white supremacy are also part of Talarico's "Greatest Hits" catalog, which the US Senate hopeful now says are "cringey."...
The political talking point ignores tens of millions of years of plate tectonics and its consequences, and completely dismisses well-established mountain-weather dynamics....
Meanwhile, SpaceX plans to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport....
