In a 2025 Business Insider interview, Jad Tarifi, a former Google AI pioneer and founder of Integral AI, issued a stark warning to aspiring doctors and lawyers: AI's rapid advancements could make their advanced degrees obsolete, as generative models increasingly outperform humans in tasks traditionally requiring years of specialised training. Tarif...
In the wake of World War II, a narrative took root that has shaped the Western world for 80 years: the Post-War Consensus. This isn't just a political agreement, it's a worldview, a secular religion, complete with saints, scriptures, and a fierce inquisition against dissenters. As JD Hall argues, the Consensus casts liberal democracy as humanity's ...
For decades, the alcohol industry sold us a seductive lie: a glass of red wine a night is not just harmless but good for your heart. That myth is crumbling. A 2025 Gallup poll reveals that only 54% of U.S. adults now drink alcohol, the lowest in 90 years, while 53% believe even one or two daily drinks harm health. This shift, led by younger and mid...
The Clinton Foundation, once a cornerstone of Bill and Hillary Clinton's global philanthropic empire, has long been a lightning rod for controversy. In recent years, whistleblowers and investigators have painted a damning picture of financial misconduct, alleging the foundation operated as a "closely held family partnership" rather than a legitimat...
The global fertility rate is in freefall, with most countries now below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. Headlines scream that climate anxiety is to blame, with outlets like CNBC and The Guardian claiming fears of a "climate apocalypse" are stopping people from having children. In Sweden, the poster child for environmental conscious...
The UK is grappling with a migrant crisis that is draining its coffers, stoking social unrest, and eroding public trust in governance. As thousands of asylum seekers, many arriving via small boats across the English Channel, are housed in hotels and private accommodations at taxpayer expense, the Labour government under Keir Starmer stands accused ...
Imagine a world where a pill could make you kinder, more empathetic, or less likely to harm others. Sounds utopian, right? This is the promise of moral bioenhancement (MBE), a new frontier in medical ethics that proposes using drugs, genetic engineering, or brain stimulation to improve our moral character. But beneath the surface lies a chilling qu...
Empires rarely fall in a single, spectacular moment. They corrode from within, piling up debt, stretching armies thin, and distracting themselves with endless overseas adventures until the core finally buckles. America is no exception. If you want to see the writing on the wall, just follow the money and the troop deployments. The United States gov...
Once upon a time, if a tyrant wanted you erased from history, he sent men with torches and swords. Your books went up in flames, your statues got toppled, and your name was chiselled out of the records. The Romans had a phrase for it: damnatio memoriae — the condemnation of memory. Orwell warned us in 1984 what that looks like in the modern age. Bu...
The Japanese dataset, presented by Yasufumi Murakami in June 2025 and highlighted by Michael Nevradakis on August 20, 2025, claims that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to a surge in excess deaths, with risks rising per dose and peaking 90–120 days post-vaccination. Covering 18 million vaccine doses across 40 municipalities, the unpublished study has b...
The US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), formerly led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has sparked global buzz by claiming to unearth billions in wasteful spending, from grants for pineapple juice marketing in Benin to Social Security payments to the deceased. With Australia's federal budget hovering around $700 billion annually and a pu...
Australia's universities like to brand themselves as "knowledge hubs," but the reality is they've become billion-dollar bureaucracies selling glossy degrees of dubious value to overseas Asians (who become migrants), while hoovering up taxpayer subsidies. We spend $18 billion a year keeping the system afloat, while student debt now tops $80 billion,...
Adelaide University's plan to scrap most in-person lectures for pre-recorded videos, sparking a student sit-in on August 25, 2025, has exposed the cracks in Australia's higher education system. If universities can sideline lecturers, potentially making them redundant, why stop there? Why not abolish universities entirely? The $18 billion-a-year Aus...
In April 2025, German journalist David Bendels was sentenced to seven months on parole for "defamation" after photoshopping a chalkboard held by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser to read "I hate freedom of speech." The irony is stark: a state punishing criticism of censorship validates the very critique it seeks to silence. This case isn't isolated, i...
The polio story is taught as the shining triumph of modern medicine, the miracle that proved vaccines could save humanity. It is held up in classrooms, paraded in documentaries, and retold by doctors as the sacred myth of their profession. But behind the polished tale lies a very different history, one of petrochemical toxins, cooked statistics, co...
Netflix's new "Astrology Hub" isn't just a quirky feature. It's a cultural signal. A trillion-dollar tech giant now curates watchlists based on your zodiac sign, Aries gets Squid Game, Leo gets The Crown. TikTok, meanwhile, is a digital shrine to oracle cards, aura trends, and star charts, especially among the young. This isn't your grandmother's h...
Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond is back with a shiny new prediction: a 49% chance civilisation will collapse by 2050. Why 49%? It's not 50% or 60%, it's just "scientific" enough to sound credible while dodging accountability. Welcome to the latest chapter in the doomsday playbook: vague warnings, arbitrary numbers, and a call to panic. Diamond'...
In 2018, Hungarian astronomers confirmed a cosmic mystery that had lingered since 1961: vast, faint dust clouds, dubbed "ghost moons" or Kordylewski clouds, lurking at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points, some 250,000 miles away. First spotted by Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski, these ethereal structures, nine times wider than Earth, but nearly ...
Astronomers recently spotted 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object hurtling through our solar system at an eye-watering 210,000 kilometres per hour. The discovery marks only the third confirmed interstellar visitor, following 'Oumuamua in 2017 and Borisov in 2019. NASA classifies it as a comet, roughly 10 to 24 kilometers across, quietly cruising throug...
Australia's immigration system under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is quietly brewing a crisis that could haunt Labor for years. A recent Senate report revealed a staggering 98,979 failed asylum seekers, people rejected for protection, still living in Australia as of July 2025, up from 68,000 when Labor took office in 2022. With only 10 deportati...
