The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that the current Ebola outbreak could become the largest on record. Health officials still say that the risk to Americans is low. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC or DR Congo) says that the number of confirmed Ebola cases has reached 1,274, including 360 deaths. Contact tracing covers only 30% of cases as the Bundibugyo virus spreads through refugee camps with over 1,100 infections and 250 deaths since May, when the outbreak was first noticed, according to a report by DongA Science. Jean Kaseya, the Director General of Africa CDC,…
Author: Tommy Grant
Military commanders love to warn troops that overreliance on GPS technology could spell disaster when signals are jammed or networks go down. But could handing navigation over to a computer be diminishing their powers of observation and decision-making skills as well?That’s the question an upcoming study from the University of Texas at Arlington aims to find out. The yearlong, $200,000 study, funded through the Department of Defense via a sub-grant, will use virtual reality simulations to track aspects of observation and recall in subjects with and without navigation aids.Steven Weisberg and Hunter Ball, associate professors of psychology at the university…
Of 116 Naval Criminal Investigative Service case files opened into allegations of sexual assault and misconduct onboard Military Sealift Command ships over a 20-year period, just five show that the case concluded at court-martial or in civilian court.That information is now public and searchable as a database due to a records request from the Maritime Legal Aid Foundation, which represents those who report being victims of shipboard harassment and abuse. Launched earlier this month, the archive, which covers all relevant cases between 2000 and 2022, shows a broad range of alleged misconduct — most of which has never before been…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Man’s best friend has incredible instincts. We often rely on our dog’s sharp senses and ancient impulses during outdoor pursuits (including everything from bird hunting, to blood trailing deer, to search-and-rescue missions). But any bird hunter with a Labrador retriever can tell you that dogs also have a tendency to eat just about anything. Sometimes the wild plants and nuts they eat can make them sick. These are the 10 wild plants you should make sure your pup does not chow…
As the Army contends with a shortage of ships to carry troops and supplies in the Pacific, it’s pressing contract vessels into service – and looking to a future in which dozens of heavy-duty autonomous watercraft take on a significant portion of the task.The Army’s little-known fleet of watercraft included about 70 Pacific-based vessels in 2024, down from 134 in 2018. According to a Government Accountability Office report published two years ago, the mission-capable rate of the remaining vessels has sharply declined, from more than 70% in 2020 to less than 40% in 2024.In a roundtable with reporters this month,…
This article was originally published by Morgan S. Verity at Natural News. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Thursday, June 25, that federal pesticide law bars state failure-to-warn claims against Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller – a decision expected to throw out thousands of lawsuits alleging the product causes cancer. In the majority opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) preempts state law claims because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the product’s label without a cancer warning, according to the ruling. [1] [2] The case centered on Missouri resident John Durnell, who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after using…
Most preppers have the same problem. Somewhere in the back of the pantry, there are cans with no label date. In the garage, there are batteries you bought two years ago. In the bug-out bag, there are protein bars from who knows when. You know you have supplies, but you have no idea what condition they are in or how long they would actually last your household if things went sideways. PPantry is a free app built specifically to solve that problem. After spending time with it, I can say it is one of the most practical and well-designed prepper…
This article was originally published by Amirhossein Eshtiaghi at The Mises Institute. Bernie Sanders is a socialist populist. His unfamiliarity with the fundamentals of economics explains why he considers Denmark to be socialist. A former Danish Prime Minister once implicitly addressed such claims, noting that Denmark’s economy is not socialist, but rather a market economy. But the truth does not matter to American leftists. He has now made headlines again with a bill that would expand state participation in the AI sector—a plan that, contrary to the claims of his supporters, could have disastrous consequences. In the following, these consequences are briefly examined.…
When the grid goes down, hospitals are overwhelmed, or you are miles from the nearest medical facility, a deep laceration can turn into a life-threatening situation fast. That is the reality of serious grid-down or wilderness scenarios, and it is exactly why a suture kit belongs in every serious prepper’s medical supplies. Knowing how to close a wound under pressure, without professional help, could be the difference between a scar and a serious infection. This guide covers everything you need to know: what comes in a suture kit, which type of sutures to choose, how to properly close a wound…
The first time I put together what I call my survival belt, I wasn’t thinking about Indiana Jones at all. I was thinking about a bad ankle sprain I’d had two years earlier, alone on a trail, with everything useful buried in the bottom of a heavy backpack. My knife, my fire starter, and my tourniquet were in there. All of it, neatly packed away and completely inaccessible when it actually mattered. But that was a good lesson for me. Afterwards, the Indiana Jones comparison is one I’ve come to appreciate, because Indy actually got something right. On screen, the…