Often priced out of college, those in the Army ROTC can earn hefty scholarships. But reservists can’t always be guaranteed safety. “I don’t think I would’ve made the same decision.”
This story was originally published in German by WELT, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group.
Nate Lin wants to be prepared for war.
On a Saturday morning in November, Lin, a 35-year-old Taiwanese man, practices how to apply a tourniquet to his right arm. In this fictive scenario, he’s been shot and is in danger of bleeding to death.
“It has to be pulled tighter to stop the bleeding,” warns the instructor.
It’s not the kind
Elon Musk used to be a car guy—an eccentric visionary, sort of quirky and absurd, but mostly entertaining. For some reason, a key group of people in and around Silicon Valley took him seriously, but he rarely exhibited the kind of depth or power that would concern anyone outside his core businesses.
Now Musk is a media mogul whose decisions cost lives and affect the world. He seems more absurd than ever, yet we can no longer afford to dismiss … Read more
Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7. Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory and segregate Palestinians ever since. The realization that its existence was dependent on a superior military in an unfriendly region also encouraged Israel to pursue a nuclear weapons … Read more
The former head of Britain’s UFO investigation squad has accused the government and military top brass of not taking the ‘threat’ posed by unidentified flying objects seriously.
Alien hunter Nick Pope, who ran the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project in the 1990s before it was disbanded, said it was ‘outrageous’ ministers are not taking ‘meaningful action’ to probe unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – better known as UFOs.
The UFO expert also accused defence chiefs of ‘falling back on a lazy,
This article was originally published by Undark Magazine.
Back at the turn of the 21st century, valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the United States, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases a year, mostly in California and Arizona. Two decades later, cases of valley fever have exploded, increasing roughly sevenfold by 2019.
And valley fever isn’t alone. Fungal diseases in general are appearing in places they have never been seen before, and previously harmless or mildly harmful
A tranche of UFO videos — including never-before-seen footage — has been quietly released by federal law enforcement.
US Customs and Border Protection, the agency responsible for keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the country, uploaded 10 videos that appear to show craft moving in strange ways in our skies.
The videos were released on August 9 without warning, a press release or much in the way of context, only to be discovered by UFO enthusiasts and online sleuths
The film paints a deeply disturbing picture. A dark-skinned man stares menacingly and licks a huge knife. Flames explode out of burning cars on an urban street. Shrieking young rioters, their heads covered by hoodies, kick in a shop window.
An alarming soundtrack thunders as a solemn male voice asks: ‘Do you want this to happen in Poland . . . to stop being masters of your own country?’
The short clip championing stronger border controls could easily have been
Antibiotic resistance – one of the biggest threats to global health – could be on the rise in part because of increased air pollution, a new study has warned.
Researchers in China have found a global correlation between the a pollutant called PM2.5 in the air and cases of bacteria becoming immune to antibiotic drugs.
Although they’re not certain what’s causing the link, they speculate that antibiotic resistant bacteria are being transported on PM2.5 carried by the air.
PM2.5 are
