Lorna woke up at noon, took a Lamictal for the first time in several days, and dragged herself into the bathroom, nervously wondering what she was about to see. She stared into the mirror and slowly ran her hand over her bald head. She had shaved it the night before in a manic fit because […]
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I walked into a Korean grocery store in Aptos to buy a beach towel. A leathery skinned man, probably in his 50s, was asking the woman behind the counter something about the sandwiches in the cooler. He wore a tight yellow bathing suit nestled between his spindly legs and bloated stomach, and he had a
Anatomically modern humans have been fighting nature for around 200,000 years. The idea of ending hunger might seem especially implausible given the challenges. For instance, one influential fraternity of theorists argues that life will always be an ugly struggle due to economic Darwinism. In this model, a few fortunates get a whole lot while the rest
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Steve Weber hadn’t stayed in touch with anyone from the little farm town he left as a teenager. The place was a static reminder of high school glory or failure, early marriage, divorce and custody battles, dead-end jobs, and not much else–the face of endurance masking a vortex of interior desperation. Forty-one years later, he
I’ll tell you right now, Doc, I’m not the crazy one. Like I was saying at the end of our last session, there’s a hidden hand behind every world-changing event on this planet. The only reason most people don’t know this is because they don’t want you to know. We’re all slaves to a hidden
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Humanity is facing an inevitable catastrophe that world leaders continue to ignore due mostly to indifference and blind ignorance. This means that the public and scientific community need to more proactively address the issue to avert disaster. Specifically, many don’t even realize that on July 23rd, 2012, a massive solar storm of two coronal mass
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