Texas’ Abbott Worried About the Border, But the Big Problem is Within the Texas Border – Another Mass Shooting, And Another, And Another…

What’s Bigger in Texas? Answer: Mass Shootings. Border agents encountered 70 percent fewer crossings in the three weeks following the end of Trump’s Title 42, compared to the week before the policy expired, according to the Department of Homeland Security. So border crossings are way down under Biden compared to Trump’s mess. But the mean-spirited …

Does Atrazine Induce Complete Feminization and Chemical Castration in Male Frogs? Yes, 10% of Those Exposed to 2.5ppb.

Commonly used herbicide, Atrazine, was found to transform 10% of genetically male frogs into females and hermaphrodites  In the 2010 study from UC Berkeley, 100% of the animals tested were genetic males. As a result, all hermaphrodites and females observed to transform were ensured to be genetic males that were altered by endocrine disruption. Examination …

Private, For-Profit Company Loses People on the Ocean Floor – Public Institutions Are Sent in to Save Them

Answer- 1. Private Corporations, 2. Taxpayer Supported Public Institutions. The missing submersible is operated by OceanGate Expeditions, a company that offers tours of shipwrecks and underwater canyons.  Rich people pay $250,000 to travel to the Titanic’s wreckage on the seabed on the submersible. These are some of the same people who pay millions for joy rides …

Venture Capital 2022 – California is the land of Innovation

California by far is the leading state for venture funding and for innovation, and San Francisco leads the way. The state’s beauty and diversity (people and habitat), and being the most fun state in the US, are only a part of the attraction. In the first half of 2022, California received $65 billion in VC …

Garbage In, Garbage Out. The Current State of (some) AI.

AI depends on training with good data. That is not happening with many AI platforms. When used in the current paradigm of deregulated privatized medicine, more people will die. There’s a new boom happening in San Francisco. It’s big. It’s AI. Investors have already announced $10.7 billion in funding for generative A.I. start-ups within the first three …

Tesla’s California market share plumets despite aggressive price cuts

The Guy, Elon Musk, Who Did Not Found Tesla is Ruining the Company Tesla’s market share in its key California market tumbled in the first quarter of the year despite aggressive price cuts as rivals stepped up, data showed on Friday. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Inc controlled 59.6% of the battery electric auto market in California from …

US Continues to Waste Time and Money as Overly Complicated Rocket on a Misguided Mission Explodes

As the US wastes time and money on a non-achievable goal to colonize Mars, the rest of the world catches up. With 25 of 33 engines burning, listing as it was launched, tumbling in the sky as some of the engines still burned, Starship fails and the detonation button was pushed. But not even the …

The Stupid Mass Media is Claiming Ice Cream is Good For You

You Should Have Enrolled in My College Class: You’d Have Learned to Ask, “Compared to What?” Ice Cream is good for you if you compare it to eating junk, such as refined carbohydrates. But if you compare eating ice cream to something healthy, such as whole grains, then it is not healthy. For example, substituting …

Eat Bad, Have a Procedure, and Take a Pill

The Privatized, Corporatized, Medicalized and Deregulated Way of Life in The United States In my book, “Thinking and Eating for Two,” I described the evolutionary diet of eating whole plant foods that feed both self, and our symbionts (the beneficial microorganisms on us and in us). Man evolved to eat plants, and this has been …

February is National Heart Health Month – So, Let’s Talk About the Skin 

Caring for your skin is not superficial. Your skin is not only a reflection of your overall health, but, indeed, the health of your skin contributes to overall health, and likely, your heart health. The popular idiom, “Beauty is more than skin deep” takes on new meaning when we consider how well cared for skin …