Science

Data Centers Are Destroying the Planet — Or Are They? (A Science Teacher Reads the Actual Numbers)

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For the past two years I have watched politicians, pundits, and people who clearly skipped statistics class weaponize the same recycled set of misleading numbers about data centers and water use. AOC brought a jar of cloudy well water to a congressional hearing and implied a nearby data center poisoned it. Spoiler: it was construction sediment. The same sediment you get when they dig up the road in front of your house. Same physics. Different agenda. But facts are inconvenient when you have a camera and a talking point.

Omertà: Fully pardoned Fauci took the Fifth to protect someone else

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Which leads to Wednesday’s Senate committee hearing—chaired by Senator Rand Paul—into the trillion-dollar covid catastrophe caused by Tony Fauci, whom Reagan brought to Washington to find a cure for AIDS. Over the course of 40 years, Fauci built a bureaucratic empire and ingratiated himself among the politicians, celebrities and press gaggles of DC. Barbra Streisand had him on speed dial.

Plandemic? Pandemic? Whatever You Call It, Why Wasn’t the Public Trusted?

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For years, Americans were told there was only one acceptable narrative. Questions were censored. Debate was discouraged. Skepticism was treated like a public health threat. Today, many of those once-forbidden questions are being openly discussed. Whether the more controversial claims ultimately prove true or false, one fact is undeniable: trust is difficult to rebuild after people believe they were denied the full picture. A free society doesn’t require unanimous agreement—it requires the freedom to ask uncomfortable questions.

America’s Forgotten Copper Reserve: The Upper Peninsula’s Ancient Treasure

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For more than 6,000 years, the shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have produced one of civilization’s most valuable resources. Long before Rome, before the Bronze Age reached its peak, and long before Europeans set foot in North America, Indigenous miners were extracting native copper from the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale. That same metal helped electrify America during the Industrial Revolution and today powers everything from smartphones and AI data centers to electric vehicles and military technology. The richest deposits may be gone, but the story isn’t over—Michigan’s remaining copper could prove to be one of America’s most important strategic resources for the next century.

Back to the Future

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It seems like everyone is talking about AI. It’s on the news. It’s in every newspaper. “AI is taking over the world,” the media headlines declare. “AI replaces 12 million jobs.” “AI wins Miss America Pageant.” AI might be writing this right now. There’s no way to know. 

Mercury: The Miracle Metal That Tries to Kill Everyone

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Mercury was once the miracle metal. Doctors prescribed it. Gold miners depended on it. Hat makers worked with it. NASA even launched it into space as the propellant for experimental ion engines. Then science caught up. The same liquid metal that advanced civilization was quietly attacking the human brain, poisoning rivers, and climbing the food chain. Mercury is a reminder that some of humanity’s greatest innovations come with a simple question we often ask too late: What if the miracle is actually the warning?

When It Rains, It Pours

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Strange weather we’ve been having lately. When I say “lately,” I could go back decades, but I’ll stick to just the past five years or so. Do you recall the winter storm that hit the central and southern US, including Texas and northern Mexico in February of 2021? It was called “Winter Storm Uri,” and at least 240 people died because of it. A strong Arctic air mass plunged deep into the southern US. More than 9 million people lost power while facing record-breaking cold, snow and ice.

Turley: US Supreme Court rulings were a BONANZA for Trump

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The Supreme Court hands the Trump administration two major wins on immigration, including the authority to end temporary deportation protections for immigrants from countries like Syria and Haiti. Jonathan Turley and Shannon Bream join ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to weigh in.

Maybe It’s Time to Retire the Reflecting Pool

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For more than a century, Americans have spent millions of dollars fighting nature at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Built in 1922 as a grand architectural feature, the pool transformed a former Potomac floodplain into a shallow, artificial body of water that has suffered recurring algae blooms, leaks, sediment buildup, and costly repairs ever since. The latest maintenance controversy isn’t a new problem—it’s simply the latest chapter in a hundred-year struggle to maintain a giant pond where nature never intended one to exist. Instead of pouring more taxpayer dollars into perpetual repairs, perhaps it’s time to ask a different question: what if we reclaimed the 15 acres occupied by the Reflecting Pool and returned that space to the public? Expanded lawns, shaded gathering areas, memorial gardens, event space, and recreational areas could serve millions of visitors far better than a body of water that most people can only walk around and photograph. Sometimes the best way to solve a century-old engineering problem is not to engineer harder—it’s to admit the original idea has outlived its usefulness.

The Forgotten Reset Beneath Lake Huron

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What if our ancestors really did survive a global catastrophe?

Beneath the waters of Lake Huron lies the Alpena–Amberley Ridge, a prehistoric hunting landscape that once connected Michigan and Ontario. Today it sits submerged and largely forgotten. To some researchers, it is evidence of sophisticated hunters tracking migrating caribou 9,000 years ago. To others, it raises a far bigger question: how much of humanity’s ancient story now lies underwater?

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis remains controversial, but the idea is difficult to ignore. If a cosmic event helped trigger dramatic climate shifts, floods, and environmental upheaval near the end of the Ice Age, what would the world have looked like a few thousand years later? Perhaps not a world of lost super-civilizations, but one of survivors rebuilding, adapting, and passing down memories of a world forever changed.

The Alpena–Amberley Ridge doesn’t prove the theory. What it does prove is that entire landscapes, ecosystems, and chapters of human history can disappear beneath the waves. The real mystery may not be what we’ve found, but what remains hidden.

A Conservative Audit of the Left’s Ruling Assumptions: The mirror they refuse to look into

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There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.

Three Knots, No Excuses: The Lost Skill That Still Saves Lives

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There was a time—not that long ago—when a man who couldn’t tie a knot was considered about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Today, we’ve got people carrying $1,200 smartphones, satellite GPS, and enough titanium gadgets clipped to their belt to look like a walking REI catalog… and they can’t tie a loop that won’t slip under load.