On June 4th 2020, Grant Shapps (then UK Transport Secretary) announced that the wearing of face coverings would soon become compulsory when travelling on public transport.

The Texas Legislature has voted to put warning labels on junk food. Senate Bill 25, passed unanimously in the Texas State Senate, mandates labels on products containing any of more than 40 additives that the federal government currently allows but bans in many other countries.

There is general agreement that the purpose of going to school is to prepare youngsters to contribute to society and to be successful adults. Success in the workplace and in life requires the ability to think critically.

Once upon a thyme (see what I did there?), humanity weathered colds with citrus fruits, soothed sleeplessness with lavender, and didn’t need a prescription to make a poultice.

The mother of all car fires is burning in the Pacific Ocean after fire broke out on a cargo ship carrying more than 3,000 vehicles, including some electric vehicles. Fire broke out Tuesday on the Morning Midas, the Coast Guard said in a statement.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have pioneered a ground breaking non-invasive cancer treatment called histotripsy, which uses focused ultrasound waves to mechanically obliterate liver tumors without surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy.

Color me a hardened cynic of the hyped-up potential for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to shape a wiser, better-informed future for humanity. But, like other inquisitive souls, I put ChatGPT to the test to see how AI ‘sees’ itself in this discussion.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s book, The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future coauthored with Michael Bhaskar at once presents two opposite societal visions — utopian or dystopian — which perhaps only artificial intelligence itself will determine.

I recently read an interesting article in the Carolina Journal: “The work habits of Gen Z: A wake-up call for employers and educators.” The author, a current college professor, makes some good observations about what he describes as a deplorable situation.

There is no other way either science or mathematics can be right, valid, and useful comprehensively if we do not change our current dogma in physics, engineering, and mathematics that merrily claims that the sine function is a wave, and light and radiation of any kind is some electromagnetic wave in any or all media.

In a nutshell -Americans believe only 41% of online content is accurate and created by humans, with three-quarters reporting their trust in the internet is at an all-time low.

Modern societies take a steady flow of electricity for granted to power our smartphones, laptops, appliances, nighttime lighting, home air conditioning, credit card and ATM transactions, and countless other dependencies … until its interruption shuts everything down.

Ed Miliband is quietly plotting a massive wind farm subsidy surge that could send household energy bills soaring in a bid to salvage his Net Zero ambitions. The Telegraph’s Jonathan Leake has the story.

Britain’s rush to Net Zero could leave it vulnerable to months-long blackouts, as reliance on intermittent renewables strains the grid, escalating costs and jeopardising energy security

Friend of Principia Scientific, Truther and award-winning South African cartoonist, Jeremy Nell has joined forces with fast-growing online independent news hub, UKColumn for a daily podcast. Nell announced the new venture on his Jerm Warfare blog: