Art Grindstone
Psychic Soldiers: Inside America’s Failed Superwarriors
You’ve heard the wild tales of America’s psychic soldiers, but the truth is a twisted mix of fact and fiction—yes, the U.S. military chased mind-over-matter warfare, yet the reality exposes a stranger, more grounded saga where flashy paranormal flops hid lasting shifts in elite training. Key Takeaway: Jim Channon, a Vietnam War lieutenant colonel, wrote […]
Hayli Gubbi Eruption: Why Africa Isn’t Splitting Now
Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia erupted explosively on November 23, 2025, around 08:30 local time, sending ash up to 10,000 ft (3,000 m) and in some reports as high as 45,000 ft. This marks the first eruption in Hayli Gubbi’s recorded history, with no confirmed Holocene blasts before 2025, though geological hints point to dormancy […]
Van Allen Belts: Why They Didn’t Stop Apollo Missions
Through the ‘Deadly’ Van Allen Belts: How Apollo Really Reached the Moon Key Takeaways (TL;DR) The Van Allen belts are regions of trapped charged particles around Earth, not an impenetrable wall of instant death. Apollo spacecraft spent only about 1–2 hours per leg in the belts and followed trajectories through thinner regions, keeping astronaut doses […]
Last Black Friday Ever? Inside Black Friday 2025 — Sales, Tech, and the Real Story Behind the Hype
“Last Black Friday ever” is a headline designed to attract clicks through scarcity and the fear of missing out, playing into the long-standing consumer habit of ritual shopping. However, as 2025 approaches, writers have legitimate reasons to heighten the drama—Adobe Analytics and the National Retail Federation unveiled projections in October and November that indicate record […]
Stargate Is Back: Inside Prime Video’s Revival, Martin Gero’s Plan, and What Fans Should Expect
On Nov. 19, 2025, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed fans’ long-held hopes: Stargate, the franchise that began with Roland Emmerich’s 1994 film, will return as a new original series on Prime Video. Martin Gero—who has worked as a writer and producer on Stargate SG‑1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Stargate Universe—will be the series’ creator and showrunner. Amazon […]
NASA, 3I/ATLAS, and the November CME: What the New Imagery Shows and Why a Solar Blast at the Comet Matters
NASA announced on Nov. 17, 2025, that it would host a public livestream on Nov. 19 to release a collection of imagery of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. These images were collected using Hubble, Mars orbiters, and various Earth-based telescopes. The agency framed the event as a rare chance to see high-resolution views of an object crossing […]
Inside the Montauk Myth: What the Montauk Project Really Was—and Wasn’t
The Montauk Project narrative resembles a mix of Cold War secret programs, time travel fantasy, and fringe psychotherapy. It references a real location—Montauk Air Force Station, later known as Camp Hero—and is layered with a dense mythology involving mind control experiments, time travel, and child abuse. The situation complicates when actual history and invented stories […]
There’s Something Strange About Ayahuasca: Evidence, Risks, and the Path to Safer Practice
Ayahuasca occupies an unsettling space where ancient ritual meets modern tourism. This Amazonian brew, crafted from Banisteriopsis caapi and DMT-containing leaves, has attracted thousands to ceremonies and many more to clinical trials. This surge has produced two parallel narratives: researchers highlighting both benefits and transient harms, alongside media stories of ceremonies ending in trauma or […]
When ‘Enhancement’ Becomes Replacement: The Ethics of Merging AI, Brain Implants, and Artificial Wombs
Warnings that “AI will eat your soul” may attract attention, but the convergence of brain implants, reproductive engineering, and AI augmentation is a technical reality with clear milestones. By the mid-2020s, companies transitioned from lab animals to human subjects, leading clinicians to confront vital questions about consent, neural privacy, and the line between therapy and […]
Global Internet Outage, Russian Explosions, and the H5N5 Rumor Storm: Separating Systemic Failure from Social Panic
On November 18, 2025, a configuration error at an internet infrastructure firm triggered a global outage, taking X, ChatGPT, and hundreds of other services offline for several hours. Close in time, investigators and open-source monitors documented multiple explosions and fires at Russian energy and military sites during mid-November, igniting a separate wave of geopolitical alarm. […]
Inside the Panic: UVB‑76 ‘Doomsday Radio’, Polish Rail Sabotage, and the Viral Nuclear Rhetoric Problem
Late in November 2025, a peculiar sequence of events—a mysterious shortwave silence, sabotage on a Polish rail artery, and viral claims concerning assassination plots advocating nuclear attacks—pushed an already anxious public toward doomsday thinking. The technical realities and the media narrative portray two stories: one about verifiable incidents that alter risk calculations and another about […]
‘We’re Doomed?’ Roman Yampolskiy’s 99.9% Extinction Claim and What Experts Actually Mean
When a respected AI safety researcher asserts there’s a 99.9% chance that superintelligent AI will eradicate humanity within a century, people take notice. Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist and author recognized for his views on the challenges of AI control, shared that estimate during a 2024 interview that quickly gained traction. This figure resonated like […]