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I joined John Batchelor to discuss the nomination of Dr. Casey Means’ for U.S. Surgeon General, and we dove straight into what troubles me most: She’s less a physician than a high priestess of the Wellness-Industrial Complex. Also she has an M.D.

Our food choices are often cultural. Soul-satisfying foods are based on food memories. So it should not be surprising that we consider some forms of dietary preferences, cultish. 

The pejorative term, pointy head intellectual, has been replaced by elites, but it remains intentionally demeaning.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