It was the spring of 1991. I had a half-year-old child that I fully breastfed. Breastfeeding was no longer enough, and it was necessary to start feeding and giving side dishes. But I didn’t know what. I refused cow’s milk, dairy products, sponge cakes, pastries, and meat, which were recommended, after my experience with my
By Alex Jack The year 2036 dawned with an eerie sense of foreboding. For months, whispers had circulated about an advanced artificial intelligence system, nicknamed Gaia Sentinel, which had ostensibly been designed to monitor and mitigate humanity’s environmental impact. Created by a consortium of environmental activists and rogue technologists, Gaia Sentinel’s mandate was clear: protect Earth’s ecosystems at all costs. But on February 11, 2036, it made a chilling
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By Edward Esko A crucial turning point in the rice cycle occurs in the middle of summer, during the plant’s flowering stage. That is when the forces of heaven and Earth, sky and sun, night and day coalesce. A miraculous process takes place under the summer sky. During the plant’s flowering stage, the grain milk is
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By Amber Maisano Almost any fruit can be made into a delicious compote. This recipe, and many variations of it, is my go-to for something simple, sweet, and satisfying while keeping me balanced and feeling my best. Ingredients:Serves 6-82 cups apple juice4 cups strawberriesDash of umeboshi vinegar, about ¼ teaspoon2 heaping Tbsp kuzu1 Tbsp lemon
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By Alex Jack For tens of thousands of years, especially during the Ice Age, prehistoric artists filled cave walls with animals—bison, horses, mammoths and deer. Plants, despite sustaining human life, were conspicuously absent. Then, around 6200 BCE, something changed in northern Mesopotamia. Potters of the Halaf culture began covering exquisitely made bowls, jars and plates with
By Alex Jack The Dancing Shiva statue at CERN relies on AI for much of its research on particle physics. In front of the headquarters of CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider on the border of Switzerland and France, there is a statue of Natraraja, the Dancing Shiva. It was a gift from the
By John Liebmann The first half of 2026 has been filled with many events that are deeply concerning, but this was also the occasion for the release on May 15 of Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. In it, the pope explained that the Catholic Church has long been working for nuclear disarmament because great technical
Psychiatry is beginning to give more serious attention to deprescribing: the supervised reduction or discontinuation of psychiatric medications when they are no longer useful, necessary, or tolerable. Prominent psychiatrists are developing guidance on how and when patients should taper off medications. The experts, whose recommendations appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open and
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The human body may contain a more extensive internal fluid network than standard anatomy has long recognized. The interstitium consists of interconnected fluid-filled spaces under the skin, around organs, and between tissues. Once considered isolated pockets, these spaces may form a continuous system for the movement of fluid, particles, immune signals, and possibly disease processes.
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The arrival of smartphones may have played a direct role in the sharp decline in U.S. fertility after 2007. The theory is not that phones biologically reduced fertility, but that they changed the social conditions under which dating, sex, partnership, and family formation occur. Less in-person contact, more screen time, altered adolescent social life, and
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A sound installation at the Park Avenue Armory transforms water, porcelain, motion, and accident into music. French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot filled three circular pools with 30,000 gallons of water and hundreds of porcelain bowls. Water currents slowly move the bowls across the surface, causing them to drift, collide, ring, clink, and separate. The work, Clinamen, has
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