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Drones make farming much easier; artificial intelligence will make drones far more useful
Drones make farming much easier and cheaper for certain types of farms, reports Bloomberg News: Early one recent morning in…
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Best type of banana could be wiped out; Genetically modified bananas could prevent that
Fifty years ago, most people ate a variety of banana that tasted much better than today’s bananas. That variety of…
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Biden Admin Rolls Out Slew Of Regs Targeting Americans’ Appliances On Last Friday Of The Year
By Nick Pope The Department of Energy (DOE) finalized or proposed a bevy of regulatory actions cracking down on numerous…
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Community Banks Are Getting Crushed By Inflation-Fueled Rate Hikes
By Will Kessler Small community banks are feeling the brunt of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes that were put…
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Biden’s Signature Law Was Supposed To Lower Drug Prices, But It’s Doing Just The Opposite
By Will Kessler President Joe Biden has sought to bring down drug prices through provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act…
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Boom Boom — Out Go The Lights!
By Deroy Murdock Ruling like the dictator whom he says Donald J. Trump aspires to be, President Joe Biden has…
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Planned Parenthood’s Trans Hormone Business Is Booming, Creating Thousands Of New Patients ‘For Life’
By Megan Brock & Kate Anderson The number of transgender services performed at Planned Parenthood clinics exploded over the past…
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Middle East Violence Throws Global Energy Market Into Turmoil
By Nick Pope The escalating violence in the Middle East caused a disturbance in the global energy market Monday morning…
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Biden’s ‘Renters Bill Of Rights’ Is Bad Economics
By Mike Feuz Ann and Mario Figueroa are a landlord’s worst nightmare. Nine times, they’ve moved into rental properties, signed…
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Robots with artificial intelligence spread in Japanese agriculture
Japan’s agricultural workforce is shrinking due to its low birth rate. To cope with the resulting labor shortage, Japanese farmers…
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Biden FCC’s Treatment Of Elon Musk’s Starlink Is A Slap In The Face To Rural Americans
By Suzanne Downing Look up in the night sky this month: It’s the Geminids meteor shower putting on a show … or…
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‘Taking A Sledgehammer’: Censorious California Could Crush America’s Latest Tech Revolution, Experts Say
By Jason Cohen California legislators are crafting numerous artificial intelligence-related bills aimed at addressing what they view as the technology’s…
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Salton Sea could meet nation’s lithium needs for decades, if that were allowed
“Southern California’s Salton Sea contains enough lithium to meet the nation’s needs for decades,” according to Grist. It is unclear…
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Biden Admin Unveils Green Jet Fuel Subsidy Rules In Win For Big Corn
By Nick Pope The Biden administration unveiled eligibility guidelines Friday for “sustainable aviation fuel” (SAF) subsidies, which stand as a…
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‘Big Trouble’: Here’s How Newsom’s California Is Killing The American Auto Industry
By Will Kessler Stellantis plans to lay off thousands of workers in Detroit and Ohio in 2024 in order to…
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7500 wind turbines in Spain will be dismantled by 2028, leaving behind waste that is hard to dispose of
Wind turbines don’t last forever, and they leave behind fiberglass blades that landfills often won’t accept. Moreover, the “blades have…
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FDA approves mind-bogglingly expensive treatments for sickle cell disease
On December 8, the Food and Drug Administration “approved the country’s first gene-editing treatment, Casgevy, for use in patients with…
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Detroit road can charge electric vehicles as they drive on it
“Detroit is now home to the country’s first stretch of road that can wirelessly charge an electric vehicle (EV), whether…
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Government-Sponsored Bank Hands Out Key Housing Grant Money Based On Race
By Will Kessler A government-sponsored bank ran a grant competition in November that handed out money based on race, judging…
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The Government Has Labels For Everything But Common Sense
By John Stossel Rigid government rules prevent food producers from informing you about useful foods, like low-FODMAP foods. FODMAP is…
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Despite drought, U.S. corn harvest is a record high
The U.S. experienced drought and extreme heat in places this year. Yet, America’s corn harvest was the biggest ever, reports…
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Rent control causes bank failure, leaving Americans on the hook for billions of dollars in losses
Imposing rent control reduces property values, leaving some apartment building owners unable to pay back their loans. That can lead…
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World Leaders Ignore Growing Safety Issues With Green Energy
By Steve Goreham The nations of the world are pursuing an unprecedented energy transition. Efforts are underway to force a…
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Will New York Politicians Tax Wall Street Out Of Existence?
By Stephen Moore Let’s face it. Anyone who works in, or just visits, the Wall Street area of Manhattan can’t…
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Small businesses find many college graduates useless
A survey of small businesses shows some are losing interest in hiring candidates with four-year degrees. The survey of 70,000…
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Italy bans lab-grown meat as investment pours into lab-grown meat production in other nations
“Lab-grown food may be the next great investment boom” and help the environment, too, reports The Telegraph. But Italy is…
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Why The Hell Do You Need A 4-Year Degree To Drive The Wienermobile?
By Grayson Quay The best job posting of all time is explorer Ernest Shackleton’s call for crew members to join…
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Two dozen toddlers sickened by lead in applesauce pouches
Hundreds of children may be experiencing lead poisoning. About two dozen toddlers in 14 states are known to have been…
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‘It’s Terrifying’: Businesses Flee Blue City In Droves As Crime Crushes Profits
By Lillian Tweten Several restaurants and businesses throughout Washington, D.C., have been forced to flee the city because of rising…
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Solar energy subsidies cause deforestation of thousands of acres in Massachusetts
“Solar panels have contributed to deforestation” in Massachusetts, reports The College Fix, citing “a study from Harvard University”: “Since 2010,…
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China approves the world’s first flying taxi
People who want to look down on the skyscrapers of Guangdong, a densely-populated province in south China, will soon be…
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Biden power plant regulations may cause blackouts
“Costly and counterproductive energy restrictions introduced by the Biden administration” are likely to cause blackouts in the future, says the…
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Aging Oil Rigs Save Countless Fish, Become Marine Oases
Aging oil rigs are saving the lives of countless fish, including overfished species that are making a comeback because juvenile…
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Restaurant chain uses robots to speed up service
“Fast-casual chain Sweetgreen in May opened its first restaurant staffed by a proprietary robot that shoots kale, cheese and other…
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A right to be evil
Federal law doesn’t prevent an employer from firing people for their odious — or not-so-odious — political views. That’s not…
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National ban on menthol cigarettes is coming
The federal government is likely to ban menthol cigarettes, even though menthol cigarettes are no worse than other cigarettes, and…
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