Two economists set out to measure something most people only feel in their gut: the idea that life gets harder somewhere in the middle. David Blanchflower, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and Andrew Oswald, a professor at the University of Warwick in the UK, spent years building one of the...
Questions about Donald Trump’s fitness for office are no longer sitting at the edge of political debate. They are now trading in public view. On Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market, users buy and sell contracts tied to real-world outcomes, with prices showing the market’s current estimate of what may happen. In this case, traders...
Energy market analysts and economists issued fresh warnings this week that the ongoing Strait of Hormuz closure – triggered by the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran that began on February 28, 2026 – will push any meaningful recovery in global fuel prices back by months, not weeks. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) raised its...
On Monday, April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT. Traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, surpassed the record for the farthest distance any humans have ever traveled from Earth –...
Questions about antioxidants and cancer rarely stay simple. Antioxidants are usually framed as protective substances that limit cellular damage. This new Nature study forces a more careful view. Researchers at the University of Rochester found a different role for glutathione. Glutathione is a major antioxidant made by the body. In some tumor settings, it can...
In late November 2025, Michael W. Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Simplify Asset Management, published a Substack essay arguing that a family of four needs roughly $136,500 a year to cover basic essentials, including housing, child care, food, transportation, and healthcare. That figure sits more than four times above the official U.S. poverty...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued one of the starkest nuclear safety warnings in the Middle East’s modern history on April 5, 2026, warning that continued strikes on Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant could trigger radioactive fallout with the power to devastate multiple Gulf nations. Araghchi stated that the Bushehr facility had been “bombed” four...
If you’ve flown recently, you’ve probably noticed a new kind of in-flight frustration. It’s not just delayed departures or cramped legroom anymore. Instead, it’s the growing number of passengers playing videos, music, or games out loud without headphones. This behavior, now widely referred to as “barebeating”, has become such a common annoyance that airlines are...
Most people don’t expect something as serious as cancer to begin with subtle, everyday changes. That’s part of what makes early bowel cancer symptoms so dangerous. For many, there’s no dramatic warning sign, just small changes that don’t seem urgent at first. The story of Mel Schilling has brought this reality into sharp focus. Known...
Federal health regulators have formally warned ImmunityBio Inc. for making misleading promotional claims about Anktiva, the company’s bladder cancer drug. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the company’s executive chairman, made these claims during a public podcast appearance in January 2026. The FDA determined that the statements were false, misleading, and in clear violation of federal drug marketing...
Valerian has become one of the most recognizable names in natural anxiety remedies. It appears in teas, capsules, tinctures, blended sleep formulas, and late-night internet searches. The herb also carries one of wellness culture’s strongest nicknames: nature’s valium. That phrase is memorable, yet it also invites confusion. NIH says valerian and Valium are “not related...
Iran’s first move through the Strait of Hormuz looked hard, deliberate, and politically selective. After the late February strikes, Tehran signaled that some countries could still move through the waterway. Reuters reported on March 27 that Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi named friendly nations, including China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan. That message suggested Iran was...
