This isn't about being a cynic. It’s about being a skeptic.
History doesn’t repeat itself. But it definitely plagiarizes itself. Right now, the United States is in the middle of a building frenzy unlike anything most people alive today have seen. The AI data center boom is pouring hundreds of billions…
My kid came home from school last year and told me she was pretty sure she had ADHD. She had seen a video about it. Actually, she had seen a lot of videos about it. The algorithm had decided that…
Back in the day, if you wanted to build something that sucked up the resources of a small city, someone would notice. Permits. Hearings. Neighbors with lawn signs. Now, they just call it a “campus,” put up a fence around…
There is an Instagram Reel circulating right now. You have probably seen it. Someone holds up a cotton t-shirt and tells you the pesticides soaked into that shirt are poisoning your skin. They then pivot to their organic cotton brand,…
My dad grew up in rural America. He ate bologna sandwiches, drank well water, and smoked Marlboros until the mid-70s. The idea that invisible waves bouncing off his cordless phone were going to give him brain cancer would have made…
If you spend any time on wellness social media, you have probably seen someone holding a jar of what looks like motor oil, telling you it cured their brain fog, fixed their testosterone, and gave them the energy of a…
Here’s something your phone doesn’t want you to know: stress is real, it actually does damage your body, and the people selling you a $60 adaptogen powder to fix it are making it worse. Cortisol is the hormone your body…
Back when I was a kid, the big kitchen fear was cholesterol. Doctors told your parents to ditch the butter, lard, and animal fat, and the food industry was happy to oblige. Crisco had already been in the game since…
Look up. Go ahead. I’ll wait. See that white line trailing behind that jet? That, according to a growing corner of the internet, is the government slowly poisoning you. Spraying you with aluminum, barium, and whatever else is trending in…
Back in the day, beer was simple. Barley, water, hops, yeast. You drank it at a barbecue and you didn’t think about it for another second. Now you’re standing in the beer aisle for ten minutes trying to figure out…