In 1986, at a conference on the global ecological crisis held in Findhorn, Scottish ecologist Alan Watson Featherstone stood before hundreds of delegates and made a public commitment. He promised to begin restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest, one of Britain’s last remnants of native pine woodland. At the time, the idea was ambitious. Much of…

Quote of the Day by Arnold Schwarzenegger (AP photo) People are often taught, from a young age, to fit in quietly, follow the path already laid out, and avoid standing out too much. Arnold Schwarzenegger built his entire life pushing back against that instinct. “What is the point of being on this Earth if you…

Florida AG James Uthmeier. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has urged Catholic schools across the state to recognise religious exemptions from mandatory vaccinations, warning that failure to do so could put their access to state-funded education voucher programmes at risk.In a letter sent to the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday, Uthmeier argued that…

Republic of Minerva, Image: AI Generated What if you could build your own country, write your own laws and never pay taxes again? That was the extraordinary vision behind the Republic of Minerva, a self-declared nation founded on an artificial island in the South Pacific in the early 1970s. Backed by wealthy investors and libertarian…

Shroud of Turin, PC: World Imaging / Public domain Nearly 50 years after samples were officially collected from the Shroud of Turin, scientists have used advanced genetic sequencing to reveal just how much biological material the linen cloth has accumulated over the centuries. Researchers applied a technique known as PCR-free next-generation metagenomic sequencing, a method…