Tyson Slocum knew the Trump administration had an aggressive plan to bail out dirty, expensive coal plants. He was just waiting for it to put the idea in writing. His…
Day: April 9, 2025
A Full-Body MRI Scan Could Save Your Life. Or Ruin It
Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan showed a cyst in his kidney. Sun saw a urologist who was cautiously optimistic that it wasn’t cancerous and…
Yes, Climate Change Really is Making Your Hay Fever Worse
Climate change is bad news for a lot of reasons—the droughts, the floods, the heat, the hurricanes. And then, too, there’s all the sneezing. If you suffer from hay fever—or…
I’m on the Baker Health Podcast
It was great fun to talk about the health care system with Dr Zeyad “Z” Baker on his podcast, so I thought I would share it here–Matthew Holt
Base Power lands $200M for rapidly growing home-battery business
Base Power , the Texas startup designing and installing very large home batteries for close to free, just pulled in an additional $200 million to fund its growth. Silicon Valley…
Pregnancy-Related U.S. Death Rates Have Jumped in Recent Years
A new study found that the rates of pregnancy-related death in the U.S. increased by nearly 28% between 2018 and 2022, with large disparities based on state, race, and ethnicity.…
Ohio corruption scandal looms over FirstEnergy rate case
This article comes from Canary Media’s Ohio Utility Watch newsletter, a monthly update on Ohio’s HB6 power plant bailout scandal. Visit our newsletter page to sign up . Welcome to…
How to Bring Up Someone’s Bad Hygiene Without Offending Them
Commenting on someone else’s hygiene is one of the more delicate conversation topics. You are, after all, critiquing a person’s body and health habits. But it’s a thorny road to…
Angela Illuminati: A closer look to roots in drylands
In this new post Angela Illuminati, postdoc at University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain, presents her work ‘Functional differences between herbs and woody species in a semiarid Mediterranean plant community: a…
Trump said no new offshore wind farms. One just got underway — quietly
After eight years of planning and amid the Trump administration’s all-out assault on the sector, an offshore wind project outside of New York City quietly began at-sea construction this month.…