https://drudge.com/user/heliumrat New links and comments. en-us http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wordzilla/0.58 10 https://drudge.com/news/290910/plastic-detox https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/16/the-plastic-detox-review-a-film-so-terrifying-you-will-want-to-change-your-life-immediately?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other In this affecting documentary, an epidemiologist asks six couples struggling to conceive to reduce their exposure to plastics and see if it helps. The results are startling - and prove that we should all make changes now <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6sq3amde2z" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreiaeqppjt2dn54a4ay6qg3ua33bcmvlwrrr5ojwkx67g4agfxxbuni" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="">In "The Plastic Detox," a new documentary out Monday on Netflix, couples explore whether cutting out plastic can improve reproductive health. But it's hardly a perfect experiment.<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/post/3mh6sq3amde2z?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- The New York Times (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r?ref_src=embed">@nytimes.com</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r/post/3mh6sq3amde2z?ref_src=embed">Mar 16, 2026 at 11:50 AM</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:30:54 -0400 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290910/plastic-detox#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290910 news, 0.5 daily 290910 https://drudge.com/news/290913/cia-vs-white-women https://www.cia.gov/static/Intelligence-Assessment-100621.pdf This is an actual CIA document from the Biden era about how White Wimmin' is taking over. And it is very funny. Yes, this is real. Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:31:48 -0400 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290913/cia-vs-white-women#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290913 discussion, 0.5 daily 290913 https://drudge.com/news/290643/ban-no-basis-law https://www.wnd.com/2026/03/ban-no-basis-law-landmark-ruling-affirms-teachers/ A federal appeals court has delivered what is being described as a "landmark" ruling that affirms a Texas teacher's "right to pray" on school grounds. "The court held that Rounds imposed an unconstitutional, visibility-based prohibition on Staci's private religious expression " a ban with no basis in law. Relying on the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2022 ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the court held that a school employee's right to engage in personal prayer outside of official duties is 'doubly protected' by both the Free Speech Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. The court ruled that this right was clearly established when Rounds acted, meaning he had no legal cover. His claim of qualified immunity was denied," the ACLJ documented. <p>The court itself said, "Kennedy clearly established that school officials may not impose categorical, visibility-based restrictions on an employee's private religious expression or exercise outside official duties." Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:39:39 -0400 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290643/ban-no-basis-law#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290643 discussion, 0.5 daily 290643 https://drudge.com/news/290553/narrative-victory https://x.com/i/status/2030472886046097630 Iranian Lego-animation war propaganda video featuring Satan, Trump, and the Epstein Files :) Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:52:25 -0400 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290553/narrative-victory#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290553 discussion, 0.5 daily 290553 https://drudge.com/news/290445/consciousness-emergent-phenomenon https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260303050632.htm For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks -- yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system? Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:33:10 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290445/consciousness-emergent-phenomenon#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290445 news, 0.5 daily 290445 https://drudge.com/news/290449/we-just-sank-irans-carrier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3EFtmT41y0 All actual news sites covering this are banned here? Townhall? Whatever. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:30:40 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290449/we-just-sank-irans-carrier#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290449 discussion, 0.5 daily 290449 https://drudge.com/news/290340/world-economic-forum-ceo-resigns-after https://www.reuters.com/world/ceo-world-economic-forum-quits-after-epstein-ties-scrutinised-2026-02-26/ The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, said he was stepping down on Thursday, a few weeks after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. <blockquote class="bluesky-embed" data-bluesky-uri="at://did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrkvhtc6t25" data-bluesky-cid="bafyreid2t3ush2lck5znloki3u76hwufswqezharsdtbz4s4l7xvluxorm" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode="system"><p lang="">World Economic Forum head Borge Brende quits after Epstein links revealed https://aje.news/qnsqe4<br><br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/post/3mfrkvhtc6t25?ref_src=embed">[image or embed]</a></p> -- Al Jazeera English (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2?ref_src=embed">@aljazeera.com</a>) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/post/3mfrkvhtc6t25?ref_src=embed">Feb 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM</a></blockquote><script async src="https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:32:20 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290340/world-economic-forum-ceo-resigns-after#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290340 news, 0.5 daily 290340 https://drudge.com/news/290090/parrots-have-syntax https://phys.org/news/2026-02-syntax-warbling-duets-wild-parrots.html Some research suggests songbirds will match or not match another bird's notes during a counter-duet to either escalate or de-escalate a situation. Dahlin was curious about the possibility, but soon realized she couldn't study the warble duet matching patterns until she knew how many call types the birds were actually using. "That started this whole process." Significantly, Dahlin said, they found what are known in human language as collocates, words that are often paired together"for example, "eat" and "food" or "grass" and "green." <p>The group uncovered more than 20 syntactic rules that the duets followed. Even so, there was very little repetition within a duet, which lasted for 5"10 seconds. "This shows that the parrots are being very precise," Dahlin said. "They are not simply throwing random notes around." Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:04:50 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/290090/parrots-have-syntax#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.290090 discussion, 0.5 daily 290090 https://drudge.com/news/289472/universe-cannot-simulated https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021052.htm New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gdel's incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires "non-algorithmic understanding," something no computation can replicate. This discovery challenges the simulation hypothesis and reveals that the universe's foundations exist beyond any algorithmic system. Co-author Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss notes that the implications of this finding extend deep into the foundations of physics. "The fundamental laws of physics cannot be contained within space and time, because they generate them. It has long been hoped, however, that a truly fundamental theory of everything could eventually describe all physical phenomena through computations grounded in these laws. Yet we have demonstrated that this is not possible. A complete and consistent description of reality requires something deeper -- a form of understanding known as non-algorithmic understanding." Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:45:11 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/289472/universe-cannot-simulated#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.289472 discussion, 0.5 daily 289472 https://drudge.com/news/289341/china-orbits-game-changing-particle-beam https://www.prototypingchina.com/2026/01/13/china-may-have-just-won-the-space-arms-race-with-this-record-breaking-particle-beam-system-in-orbit/ The newly unveiled Chinese system reportedly delivers an impressive 2.6 megawatts of pulsed power with synchronization accuracy previously thought unattainable. Such power output, combined with fine control over timing, marks a breakthrough in how particle beams can be generated and maintained in the vacuum of space. Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:48:44 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/289341/china-orbits-game-changing-particle-beam#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.289341 discussion, 0.5 daily 289341 https://drudge.com/news/289321/military-tells-trump-needs-more-time https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/11/report-military-tells-trump-it-needs-more-time-to-prepare-for-war-with-iran/ According to The Telegraph, "Trump has been warned that the US military needs more time to prepare for strikes against Iran." Military commanders in the Middle East stated they need to "consolidate US military positions and prepare defences" in anticipation of an Iranian retaliatory attack. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said that if it attacks Iran, the Islamic Republic will strike Israel and US bases in the Middle East. <p>Trump has threatened Iran several times in recent weeks. "If Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go," Trump said earlier this month. Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:01:03 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/289321/military-tells-trump-needs-more-time#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.289321 discussion, 0.5 daily 289321 https://drudge.com/news/289158/nasa-confirms-1st-starless-dark https://en.mehrnews.com/news/240527/NASA-confirms-1st-starless-dark-matter-dominated-object he finding, detailed Monday on NASA's official website, is based on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope and centers on an object dubbed "Cloud-9," detected near the spiral galaxy Messier 94. "This is a tale of a failed galaxy," said principal investigator Alejandro Benitez-Llambay of the University of Milano-Bicocca, explaining that the absence of stars is the key evidence, according to NASA, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported. <p>"In science, we usually learn more from the failures than from the successes." <p>Team member Andrew Fox of AURA/STScI added: "This cloud is a window into the dark universe," noting that such objects offer rare observational access to dark matter, which does not emit light. Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:22:51 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/289158/nasa-confirms-1st-starless-dark#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.289158 discussion, 0.5 daily 289158 https://drudge.com/news/289108/revolution-not-televised https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-ayatollah-khamenei-escape-moscow-protests-revealed-h5f95ctb5?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfGqD0XaqINJlDLKqtR-BV5s6SIuR5qAaPRrVMxG0XGK4OcLwes_9KxVVFvwwM%3D&gaa_ts=695c4991&gaa_sig=aB8OiBQCqKUssuS75CCPjQLjj-OV3lE8uxGzi30KGpgTLHZ9OIMmouvW0lXi0P5z8shQRA0Za-40yT74xfrNxA%3D%3D Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a back-up plan to flee the country should his security forces fail to suppress protests or desert, according to an intelligence report shared with The Times. Khamenei, 86, plans to escape Tehran with a close circle of up to 20 aides and family, should he see that the army and security called on to quell the unrest are deserting, defecting or failing to follow orders. <p>"The plan B' is for Khamenei and his very close circle of associates and family, including his son and nominated heir apparent, Mojtaba," an intelligence source told The Times. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:51:09 -0500 HeliumRat https://drudge.com/news/289108/revolution-not-televised#discuss tag:drudge.com,2005:weblog.289108 discussion, 0.5 daily 289108