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The pejorative term, pointy head intellectual, has been replaced by elites, but it remains intentionally demeaning.  

Mark opened our discussion with the vivid image of mosquitoes meeting their match after biting medicated humans.

By Josh Bloom, Associate Director of Poultry Cognitive Disillusionment

The tariffs are coming, or not, for pharmaceuticals. How they are determined will make a difference in your expenditures.

My favorite new phrase is rapid unscheduled disassembly popularized by Elon Musk’s team, not Doge but Starlink. Here is the commentary as the launch proceeded.

In the digital age, the democratization of commentary has created a curious paradox.

There have been some intriguing stories lately about a different kind of reactor – one cooled by molten salt instead of the more typical water-cooled designs comprising the great majority of the world’s nuclear reactors.

New York City never sleeps. Energy has returned to the streets. And what supplies the energy to heat New York? Steam a relic of the Industrial Revolution, is the invisible force warming thousands of buildings.

Baseball is in the air, as the first home games are done and dusted, and the season has begun. But let’s think back to when baseball was the national pastime, say 1948, when a game could reflect the best and worst of the country.

The discovery of the double helix model of DNA is among the most significant scientific achievements of the last century. Many people believe all the credit belongs to Watson and Crick. It doesn’t.