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Atlantis and the Drowned World — What Science Actually Knows About Civilization Before the Ice Age Ended Plato's lost island rests on 20 pages of Greek philosophy. The real questions it raises — about catastrophic climate shifts, 120 meters of sea level rise, and what lies beneath the waves — are far mor...

Atlantis and the Drowned World — What Science Actually Knows About Civilization Before the Ice Age Ended spicanews.com/articles/atl...

What Would Actually Fix It — Lessons from Countries That Got Healthcare Right The US healthcare cost crisis is not unsolvable. Dozens of countries spend half as much per person and achieve better outcomes. The solutions are not mysterious, and the evidence for them is overwhelm...

What Would Actually Fix It — Lessons from Countries That Got Healthcare Right spicanews.com/articles/hea...

The Watchers and the Watched: Predicting the Future of NHI-Human Relations If hostile civilizations destroy themselves before reaching the stars, then any intelligence watching us has already solved the problem we're failing at. The real question is not whether they are dang...

The Watchers and the Watched: Predicting the Future of NHI-Human Relations spicanews.com/articles/nhi...

Why Nothing Changes — The Political Economy of American Healthcare Reform Two-thirds of Americans want universal coverage. The evidence for savings is overwhelming. Every peer nation figured this out. So why can't the richest country on earth reform its healthcare system? T...

Why Nothing Changes — The Political Economy of American Healthcare Reform spicanews.com/articles/hea...

The Arithmetic of Decline — Why Two Incomes Buy Less Than One Used To A child born in 1940 had a 92% chance of outearning their parents. By 1984, that number had fallen to 50%. The American economy grew sixfold — so where did the money go?

The Arithmetic of Decline — Why Two Incomes Buy Less Than One Used To spicanews.com/articles/us-...

The Dissonance Machine: How Your Mind Deceives You, How Media Profits From It, and What You Can Do About It Cognitive dissonance is not an abstract psychological curiosity. It is the mechanism through which individuals lose mental health, media systems exploit populations, and societies fracture along manuf...

The Dissonance Machine: How Your Mind Deceives You, How Media Profits From It, and What You Can Do About It spicanews.com/articles/cog...

The Armies of the Beast — How a 19th-Century Invention Became America's Favorite Prophecy The word 'Armageddon' appears once in the entire Bible. The Rapture appears zero times. What millions of Americans believe about the end of the world was largely invented in the 1830s, and the text th...

The Armies of the Beast — How a 19th-Century Invention Became America's Favorite Prophecy spicanews.com/articles/arm...

The Sickness Economy — How Food, Inactivity, and Environment Make Americans Sick Before They Ever See a Doctor Ninety percent of America's $5.3 trillion healthcare bill goes to chronic diseases substantially driven by an industrialized food system, a car-dependent built environment, and environmental contamina...

The Sickness Economy — How Food, Inactivity, and Environment Make Americans Sick Before They Ever See a Doctor spicanews.com/articles/ame...

The $5.3 Trillion Question — Why American Healthcare Costs So Much The US spends more per person on healthcare than any nation on earth, yet ranks last among wealthy countries in health outcomes. The culprit is not overuse. It is price: hospital charges, drug costs, ...

The $5.3 Trillion Question — Why American Healthcare Costs So Much spicanews.com/articles/hea...