Though only six inches long, the pancreas plays a vital role in digestion and blood sugar regulation.
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Though only six inches long, the pancreas plays a vital role in digestion and blood sugar regulation.
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Joel Salatin wants to liberate Americans from over-regulation with neighbor-to-neighbor food commerce.
Salatin, who runs Polyface Farm in the hills of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, is pitching the concept of a “Food Emancipation Proclamation.”
Through what he envisions as a federal declaration, consenting adults would be allowed to buy and sell homemade and farmstead food directly, without the costly commercial infrastructure and cumbersome government regulation currently in place.
Salatin’s mission reflects a push among homesteaders and independent farmers to cultivate local food networks, where food is grown and raised without chemicals and consumers can gain a more transparent connection to how food is produced. (Read more)
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Over four decades before the U.S. Air Force became its own military branch, one determined officer insisted that the future of warfare would be decided in the skies. His predictions earned him ridicule and cost him his career, bult ultimately proved remarkably accurate.
William “Billy” Mitchell (1879–1936) began his military career before airplanes transformed warfare. Convinced that aviation would become the nation's greatest military asset, he paid for his own flight training after the Army declared him too old to learn. During World War I, Mitchell rose rapidly through the ranks, commanding American air units in France and witnessing firsthand the growing power of military aviation. The experience left him convinced that the United States needed an independent air service.
Back home, Mitchell campaigned tirelessly to persuade military leaders and politicians that aircraft would fundamentally change national defense. In 1921, he dramatically demonstrated aviation's potential by sinking the captured German battleship Ostfriesland with aerial bombs, capturing the public's imagination even as it deepened his conflict with Navy leadership.
His outspoken criticism of military policy eventually led to a court-martial and forced resignation. Yet Mitchell refused to abandon his cause. Years before World War II, he warned that Japan could launch a surprise aerial attack against Pearl Harbor and American bases in the Pacific—a prediction that unfolded with startling accuracy in December 1941.
As WWII demonstrated the decisive importance of air power, Mitchell's once-radical ideas became military doctrine. The explosive growth of the Army Air Forces during the war paved the way for the National Security Act of 1947, which finally established an independent U.S. Air Force—the very institution Mitchell had championed for decades. (Read more)
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Your child’s report card may be sending the wrong signal. Grades and GPAs increasingly reflect institutional incentives rather than academic... (Read more)
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The Gibraltar–Spain fence is down—but what happens now? (Read more)
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