Sweeping cuts in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” targeting abortion providers threaten to drastically reduce access to a wide variety of sexual and reproductive health care services in…
Day: July 2, 2025
Is Taking a ‘Fart Walk’ Good for Your Health?
What you once knew as an after-dinner stroll has been rebranded a “fart walk” on social media—and the trend is having a moment. Fans of the so-called fart walk—a short…
Anmol Madan, RadiantGraph
Anmol Madan is CEO of RadiantGraph. He’s building an end to end solution that goes from data ingestion to applications to consumer connection via text/email and voice in order to…
Bill to delay N.C. climate law would slow energy buildout as demand climbs
State legislators pushing to unravel North Carolina’s climate law say their bill will give utility Duke Energy more leeway to build new gas and nuclear power plants and save its…
Different planes or new fuels?
Over 60 years ago I went on the first plane ride that I can recall, a relatively new Qantas Boeing 707 V-Jet from Malaya to Australia (we had travelled to…
When TikTok Trends Send Kids to the Emergency Room
Is TikTok empowering or endangering the health of kids and teens in the U.S.? As an emergency physician, I often ask myself that question. There are some positives to the…
Microsoft’s AI Is Better Than Doctors at Diagnosing Disease
Medicine may be a combination of art and science, but Microsoft just showed that much of both can be learned—by a bot. The company reports in a study published on…
The 4 Words That Drive Your Doctor Up the Wall
Primary care doctors have heard it all—yet there are four words they hope their patients don’t say. Here’s what happens: During the last moments of an appointment, as the doctor…
Greenpeace International begins groundbreaking anti-SLAPP case to protect freedom of speech
AMSTERDAM/SYDNEY, Wednesday 2 July 2025 – In a first, landmark test case of the European Union’s new legislation to protect freedom of expression and stop abusive lawsuits, Greenpeace International today…
Redwood Materials built record grid storage project using old EV batteries
I was supposed to be looking at the largest energy-storage installation ever assembled from used electric-vehicle batteries, the tantalizing new side project of former Tesla Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel’s…