MSN reports that scientists at the British Museum have deciphered a cuneiform tablet found nearly 150 years ago that apparently dates back 3,000 years (October 29, 2024). The stone tablet has writing on both sides, and the back contains a crude map and directions.

As world leaders push the Green Agenda, the growing elephant in the room is artificial intelligence (AI). What few realize is that AI systems require gigantic computer warehouses that consume massive amounts of electricity—and power generators and their associated infrastructure can’t be built overnight.

Salt is an important commodity, and it has been for millennia. It is one of the basic necessities of life, so vital that it was even used as a form of currency in ancient times, giving rise to the common saying that something or someone is “worth their salt”—or not.

In certain regions of the United Kingdom, the growing number of vacant desks in schools is growing (Telegraph, September 15, 2024). Although demographers have warned about Britain’s plummeting birth rate for decades, national leaders have chosen to focus on other issues. As birthrates drop, fewer young people seek an education and enter the workforce to contribute to the tax base, all while older people are living longer on national pensions.

Mankind has long desired to live forever, yet finding the fountain of youth has been elusive. While life-expectancy rates have increased greatly in Western nations since the widespread availability of clean water supplies and sanitation facilities, such advances, along with the miracles of modern medicine, seem to be approaching a limit in their effectiveness at lengthening the human lifespan much further.