Legend says that if you displeased the King of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and protected elephants were incredibly expensive to keep, so a “White Elephant” came to mean a possession that is useless, troublesome, expensive to maintain and difficult to dispose of – like a Sacred Cow, but much bigger.

It is illegal for New Yorkers under age 21 to purchase a can of whipped cream, according to recently-passed state law.

The elites have overplayed their hand and too many peasants are waking up to the big ruse. A confluence of factors is leading to an inevitable collapse of the current societal paradigm.

The poet Henry Longfellow wrote in 1845, “I shot an arrow into the air / It fell to earth, I knew not where.” The same thing happened with my Quadrant Online piece a fortnight ago about satellite readings of Australian temperatures.

Electricity prices in the European market have reached unprecedented levels, rendering millions with an uncertain future.

Here in the Upper Midwest, our interstates are fast and our winters are cold. Speeds north of 70 miles per hour combined with near-zero (F) temperatures wreak havoc on an electric vehicle’s range.

On August 12th, the CDC released new data showing a total of 1,379,438 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and Aug. 5, 2022, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). That’s an increase of 7,964 adverse events over the previous week.

Anthony Fauci is ending his long and celebrated government career by being widely lauded for getting so much so very wrong on Covid-19.

I had a look at deaths of 25 to 39 year old men and women in England between 2014 and 2022 to see if there was anything insightful. Sure enough, there was plenty.

With the world well into a decade marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA), governments worldwide seem to be either clueless or impotent over the portents ahead.

A viewer sent in a question with a concern over how “nothing” constitutes a better answer to existence than “randomness”?

Trying to work out how close together you can pack turbines in an offshore wind farm is a vital engineering decision for the developers of offshore wind farms.

Looking for a light read? Perhaps a fairy tale to settle the kids before bed?

An assessment of the health of Davis Strait polar bears by 35 Inuit bear experts was made public two weeks ago. Overall, these experts agree that virtually all polar bears they see are healthy and that the population has been growing over the past few decades, so much so that “public safety has become an increasing concern”. Mainstream media have ignored this report, as far as I have seen.