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Blockstream Satellite and Briar: Can Money and Messages Travel Without the Internet?
Since August 2017, the Bitcoin blockchain has been broadcast from space for free. A messaging app can pass notes by Bluetooth between phones in the same room. The questions this investigation puts to the record: How does a node receive Bit...
Raqia: What Did the Hebrew Word for "Firmament" Actually Describe?
Modern translations say "expanse." The ancient translators did not. The Hebrew verb behind it describes metalwork. The questions this investigation puts to the record: What does the root raqa' mean everywhere else in the Bible? Why did th...
Radio-Frequency Exposure: Why Did a Federal Court Tell the FCC to Explain Its Own Limits?
U.S. limits for radio-frequency exposure were set in 1996 and rest on heating. Since then, a World Health Organization agency, a federal toxicology program and a federal court have each raised questions. The questions this investigation put...
Executive Order 6102: What Happened When Owning Gold Became a Felony?
On April 5, 1933, American citizens were ordered to surrender gold coins, bullion and certificates to the Federal Reserve at $20.67 per ounce. Months later the government repriced gold at $35. The questions this investigation puts to the re...
The Minnesota Coronary Experiment: Why Did a Diet Trial Sit Unpublished for 43 Years?
The largest controlled test of replacing saturated fat with vegetable oil was run in Minnesota institutions between 1968 and 1973. Its main results were never fully published until 2016. The questions this investigation puts to the record: ...
Project Mohole: Why Was the First Attempt to Drill Through the Crust Cancelled?
In 1961 an American drill ship pierced the seabed in 3,500 meters of water. It was the proof of concept for a project that was meant to reach the mantle. Congress killed it five years later. The questions this investigation puts to the reco...
Operation Choke Point: Can a Bank Be Told Whom to Refuse Without a Court Order?
Between 2013 and 2017 federal regulators leaned on banks to end relationships with lawful businesses they disliked, using reputational risk rather than statutes. The questions this investigation puts to the record: What authority did the D...
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: Who Authorized the Experiments Now Reaching the Sky?
Solar geoengineering was once a thought experiment. By 2022 a startup was launching sulfur-dioxide balloons from Mexico and selling "cooling credits." The questions this investigation puts to the record: Who has the legal authority to rele...
Reptilians in History: Deconstructing the Global Serpent Kings, Ubaid Lizard Statuettes, Vedic Nagas, and Imperial Ophidian Dynasties
In contemporary public discourse, any mention of "reptilian beings" is immediately conditioned to trigger ridicule. Late-twentieth-century television, science-fiction tropes, and sensationalized conspiracy commentary have successfully reduc...
The Heaven Myth: Why the Bible Never Says the Souls of the Dead Go to Heaven
If you attend almost any Christian funeral in the Western world, the eulogy follows an identical script: the deceased has "gone home to heaven," shedding their earthly vessel to become an ethereal angel watching over loved ones from above. ...
YHWH as Dragon: Deconstructing the Fiery Theophanies, Babylonian Tiamat Parallels, and Gnostic Demiurgic Texts
For nearly two millennia, institutional Western theology has conditioned the public mind to envision the biblical deity YHWH through the sanitized iconography of the Renaissance: an elderly, bearded Caucasian patriarch seated upon clouds of...
Pre-Historic Races of the United States: Why Did the Smithsonian Erase the AAAS President's 1873 Mound Builder Craniometry?
In early 1873, on the presses of S. C. Griggs and Company in Chicago, the definitive pre-modern treatise on North American antiquity was published: [Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America](https://archive.org/details/prehistoric...