Something startling is happening to aging. 90,000 Americans have reached the age of 100. Which means that you, too, may live that long. But how? Publicity for a new book on longevity has brought a 2012 study back into the news. In that study, researchers from Yeshiva University looked at 250 people 98 to
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There’s a reason junk food is called junk. It isn’t good for you. A new small scale study in Sweden, a study with only fifteen experimental subjects, shows something intriguing. When you eat a high fat/high sugar diet, a junk food diet, a strange thing happens to your sleep. You sleep just as long
There’s a term that used to be applied to mass hysterias, a panic. And we are in a social network panic. The Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, a man who normally stays in the shadows, has issued a 25-page advisory with 104 research references warning of “a profound risk of harm” to
China plans to start building a lunar base and to land Taikonauts on the moon before 2030. The Chinese intend to start this project with Long March rockets that can carry 28 tons to orbit. But we are in position to outdo the Chinese. We have a rocket that will deliver more than twice a
Two weeks ago, on March 30th, the Atlantic magazine published a story headlined “Why People Are Acting so Weird.” The article claimed that “Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents [on airplanes], and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently.” Peculiarly, the first example it gave was of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy
Three researchers from New York University have shown something startling. You can cut your risk of dementia in half with a simple trick—using the internet for roughly two hours a day. Dementia is a state in which your brain shrinks and your memory gives out on you. It often comes with old age. In extreme
Someone is trying to end the liberty and freedom of your kids. On Wednesday April 26th, a bipartisan team that included Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, and Alabama Republican Katie Britt introduced The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. An act that strangles the freedom of
If the launch of SpaceX’s 100-passenger Starship on Thursday succeeds, it will radically change the relationship between life and space. Why? for the price of one NASA Artemis Moon Rocket launch, you could launch 2,000 Starships for the price of one Artemis Moon Rocket launch carrying three passengers to the moon, you could launch
On Wednesday April 12th, NPR announced that it will quit Twitter. It will take down all 52 of its Twitter accounts. Why? Because Twitter has taken the label it uses for state-manipulated propaganda channels like Russia’s Russia Today and China’s CCTV—“state affiliated media”– and has applied it to NPR. Implying that NPR is a puppet
Howard Bloom has just launched The Big Bang Tango on Substack to give readers the Truth Behind the Headlines. His job is to surprise you, and he really does. Read The Big Bang Tango by Howard Bloom on Substack here: https://howardxbloom.substack.com/ Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein,
In the early morning of Wednesday, March 22nd, China’s dictator for life Xi Jinping left Moscow after three days of meetings with Vladimir Putin. The get-together was calculated to be a move in the step-by-step process of replacing America as the leader of the global order. Replacing America with, you guessed it, China. And with
Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 14th, two Russian Su-27 jets harassed a $32 million American MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that was gathering information on the nearby Ukraine War from the air above the international waters of the Black Sea 75 miles from Russian-held Crimea. The two Russian jets reportedly toyed with the drone
March 1st, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on H.R. 1153, a bill to give the president “the power to ban…. TikTok.” And not just to ban TikTok. Giving the president the power to ban any app from “a foreign entity that is ‘subject to the influence of China’.” This is just one in a four-year
February 24th marks a year since the troops of Vladimir Putin first invaded the Ukraine. And new developments are emerging rapidly. The war in Ukraine is becoming a piece in a new great game. A chess piece in a new faceoff between the great powers. On Wednesday February 22nd, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi[i] visited Vladimir Putin in
According to a headline from England’s Daily Mail, “American adults now spend more time watching Netflix and other digital platforms than viewing traditional TV for the first time ever.” The information for this story and a dozen others like it come from a press release put out on the morning of February 15th by Insider
On February 6th, a constitutional amendment was introduced in the California Legislature by Assembly Member Isaac Bryan. Bryan’s amendment would give voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions. Two days later, David Cruz, an ex-felon who spent thirteen years in state prison and then helped organize a non-profit called Initiate Justice, held a
A move made by the San Francisco Board of supervisors has brought the subject of killer robots to the fore. And critics have demanded that robots able to kill be taken off the board before they kill masses of innocent human beings. But there’s a problem. Once a weapon is invented, it’s used. 872 years
At 1:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time on September 7th, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, California, the US Air Force Global Strike Command launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile stripped of its nuclear warhead. The Space Force says that the point of the test is to prove that “the
Nancy Pelosi’s August 3rd trip to Taiwan was a move in a new great game, a contest between China and the USA over who will lead the world. America, says Joe Biden, is fighting to defend democracy. And China is inching toward becoming the center of what it calls a new world order, an order
On June 24th, one of the five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wrote a lone wolf letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Carr asked the heads of Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores. That is a big ask. Wired Magazine reports that