Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, disrupts female hormones and damages the ovaries and uterus in ways that can make it more difficult for women to get pregnant, according to a new review of human and animal research. The study, published in Reproductive Sciences (March 21, 2025), also found that glyphosate may be tied…

Degrowth communism. It is hard to think of two more triggering words. Words which raise red flags. It is difficult to conceive of two more seemingly contradictory terms. Degrowth, which to many raises images of voluntary poverty in a somewhat bucolic, post-industrial, neo-anarchistic setting. Contrasted with communism, which stirs up pictures of Soviet smokestacks, forced…

Avigail settlers wish to take over and annex Palestinian lands of Rakeez. On April 15, 2025 Rakeez resident Sheikh Sa’id awoke to the sound of heavy equipment entering from Avigail into his fields. Two days later Avigail settlers returned to the field. When Sheikh Sa’id and his 15-year-old son arrived they were attacked by the…

While Trump is operating an overtly barbarous campaign against immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ people, and other groups, the continued use of Guantánamo demonstrates that this is much bigger than just one president: the United States is a carceral-imperial state.

Most infant formulas in the U.S. contain mostly added sugars instead of natural lactose, which experts say can harm early development, a new report from the University of Kansas shows. “Infants may consume upwards of 60 grams of added sugars per day, or the equivalent of two soft drinks per day if they are entirely…

Musk first announced his intention to build a space-based internet, which he would eventually call Starlink, in January 2015. He had plans to settle Mars, then the moons of Jupiter, and maybe asteroids too. All those space colonies would have to be connected via satellite-based communication; Starlink itself might one day be adapted for this…

For a CEO, work is often a seamless blend of decision-making, networking, and strategising—activities that can happen anywhere, from the back of a car to a five-star hotel. For their employees, however, work is defined by rigid hours, physical presence, and often mundane, repetitive tasks. While a boss may count a coffee meeting as part…

Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, may significantly raise the risk of an increasingly common chronic liver disease—even at low exposure levels, according to a new review of more than 40 scientific studies published over the past 17 years. It found a growing body of research links exposure to glyphosate (GLY)—and the commercial herbicides…

The Food And Drug Administration has laid off more than 140 employees including veterinarians, some of who work on tackling antimicrobial resistance. Efforts to curb the use of antimicrobials in farm animals and stem resistance to crucial antimicrobial medicines are at risk after layoffs at the United States Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary…