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2026 46

  1. The Saudis Are Desperate
  2. Strait to Disaster
  3. Is 21st Century Europe's Archduke Moment Coming?
  4. A Nuclear-Equivalent Explosion Struck Nepal and Didn’t Destroy It. A Real Nuke Won’t Destroy Iran.
  5. The Himalayan Tsunami
  6. Animal People-You're Missing the Biggest (Localized) Massacre in Modern Times
  7. Is Trump Taking Advantage of A Mentally Ill Woman?
  8. Mitch McConnell Could Be Governor of the Strait of Hormuz
  9. Americans Are Vulnerable on Another Warfront
  10. The American Military May Be the Biggest Scam in History
  11. Mitch McConnell Will 'Die of Complications' After August 3.
  12. Boots on the Ground in Iran Will Be All That's Left
  13. Could the War in Iran Lead to World War?
  14. Lindsey Graham is Dead. Mitch McConnell Might Be. The Economy Will Be.
  15. Trump Threatens Iran Bigly; Now What?
  16. A 1st Responder Breaks Down the Scene at Mitch McConnell's House
  17. The Evisceration of Venezuela
  18. Hormuz Is Open! The Oil Crisis Is Over! Or Is It…?
  19. The Fighting Force the US Couldn't Beat
  20. A Press Conference Like No One Has Seen Before
  21. Did Iran Just Pull A Profound Checkmate?
  22. Everything You Need to Know About Oil
  23. Escalation - In Action & Rhetoric; and Does the U.S. Have a (real) Deep State Problem Now?
  24. Hormuz Isn't An Energy Problem - It's an Everything Problem
  25. A War Break, but Not a Ceasefire
  26. Is Trump About to Surrender?
  27. China Just Took the Reins
  28. The Economic Crash is Coming, Even to America
  29. Absurd Arguments for American 'Victory' in Iran
  30. China, Iran & the War... Imminent Global Shift?
  31. This Isn’t Partisan Squabbling. It’s a Class War.
  32. Who Really is Hezbollah?
  33. Should the US Tax Energy Companies' Windfall?
  34. Orbán Out; Artemis In; & What 'Closed' Means
  35. War in Africa and How it Relates to Iran
  36. Ten Points of Failure
  37. Accuracy! Truth! How Do They Work?!
  38. In the Middle East, Nepal Immediately Did What the US Wouldn't
  39. State of the War in Iran
  40. When Peace is Off the Table
  41. You Can't Separate the Man From His Policies
  42. Regime Change in Iran Is a Nonstarter
  43. How the War in Iran Ends
  44. Too Many Americans Don’t Know How Anything Works
  45. My First Dragon Boat Wedding
  46. What Are We Doing?

2025 38

  1. The Inverted Umbrella
  2. Ai in 2026
  3. Happy Holidays!
  4. The Epstein Saga Shows That the American Government Is Collapsing
  5. Becoming China’s Heavenly King
  6. Sometimes, You Just Need to Embrace Happiness
  7. MAGA Suffers Electoral Massacre in the USA
  8. What's in The News?
  9. News of the Weird - Winter is Coming
  10. I Wrote a Novel; Here's What It Was Like and What Comes Next
  11. The Constitution Can't Protect US
  12. Another Sign of Life on Another Celestial Body?
  13. No, NASA Did Not Discover Life on Mars
  14. AI-Powered Physical Love
  15. I Am Indifferent to Charlie Kirk's Death, and I Hate That
  16. Did My Cat Just Prove She Is Self-Aware?
  17. Microsoft Is Screwing You (Again)
  18. Why The Lives of Endangered Animals Matter
  19. Life Is Juggling Many Balls
  20. Have People Given Up on The World?
  21. Into the Mountains
  22. The AI Sham Continues
  23. Right Wing Populism Has Been A Disaster for U.S. Counties and States
  24. Go On, Give Random Kids Your Social Security Number
  25. The Engagement Economy Is A Legal Fraud
  26. If Star Trek's Federation Contracted With 21st Century CEOs
  27. What If You Had Just 10 Minutes?
  28. The US Is Failing in the Face of the Next Pandemic
  29. Is It Safe to Fly in Nepal?
  30. Writing Good Science News Headlines is Hard, But Critically Important
  31. If You Thought AI Was Wreaking Havoc Before… Buckle Up
  32. It is 15°F, So Let's Talk about Sunburn
  33. Imagine That: Apple Intelligence Isn't Very Bright
  34. Aliens Are Not Buzzing the Earth
  35. Microwaves "Short Out Your Brains"
  36. Why Do People Still Get Scurvy?
  37. Is the Modern Tech Age A Giant Scam?
  38. What is the 'Purpose' Behind A Great Mystery?

2024 26

  1. The Invisible Tsunami Kids
  2. A Simple Math Error Revealed the Problem with Access to Knowledge
  3. We Don’t Really Know How Many Birds Die in Structural Collisions
  4. Why 'My' Cats Watch TV (Maybe)
  5. The Nightmare of When Humans Join Machines
  6. Fighting Snow Wars at Home
  7. The Imminence of the Destruction of the Space Program
  8. Flat Earth is a Microcosm of Big Tech Futurism
  9. The Sinister Underbelly of 'Apple Intelligence'
  10. Why Private Capital is Bad for the Future of Tech
  11. Can - and Should - Scientists 'Decode' Animal Language?
  12. How You are manipulated by Pseudo Math, Science & Logic
  13. Why Numbers Have No Meaning
  14. AI & Whales, Drying Rivers, and the Nobel Prize
  15. How Melting Ice Buried a Village in Nepal
  16. When Science YouTubers Abandon Science for Clicks
  17. Climate Science Skeptics are a Tiny Minority
  18. The Problem with AI 'Thinking Like a Human'
  19. In Need of a Social Circle
  20. Why AI Will Never be Conscious
  21. The Final Report - Yeti Airlines 691
  22. Falling From High in the Sky
  23. The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction
  24. The Boeing Saga Grows Even Darker
  25. Prepping for studies and a career in Cybersecurity or Computing
  26. Big Trouble for Boeing

2023 27

  1. The Year is 1984
  2. The Limitations of What We Can “Know” or “Comprehend”
  3. Windmills and Whales
  4. Artificial Thirst
  5. The US Speaker of the House’s Porn Tracking App
  6. GPT-4V - an LLM with "Vision"
  7. QR Codes - Are They Dangerous?
  8. Who to Boycott
  9. The Street Dogs of Kathmandu
  10. Nepal's Health Crisis
  11. Cookies and Supercookies
  12. The Case for Criminally Charging the World’s Richest Man
  13. Under the Hood of ChatGPT
  14. FAA Approves Flying Car for Test Flight
  15. Venture Capitalist Makes a Strong Argument for Regulating AI (without meaning to)
  16. That Time a Plane Skipped off the Sea
  17. Cross-Cultural Communication for Sustainable & Regenerative Tourism
  18. Solving Crimes is becoming a very Hi-Tech Field
  19. The Tara Air Flight 197 Final Report
  20. A Legendary Performance
  21. Sustainability through Compassionate Education
  22. Aviation Incident over Kathmandu
  23. The Psychology of an Email Attack
  24. Nepal – the World's next Tech Hub?
  25. Diagnosis: Kessler Syndrome
  26. Analyzing Tara Air Flight 197
  27. Analyzing Yeti Airlines Flight 691