It's been 20 years since that original meme and he's still getting it tattooed on him. His commitment to the bit is legendary.

We might even get a Capital Volume 4 out of it.

Howdy friends today we are going to be taking a step back in time and uncover the mysteries of the Octagon Earthworks, part of the Newark Ceremonial Earthworks UNESCO World Heritage Site in Newark, Ohio. Joined by none other than archaeologist Dr. Brad Lepper, we will explore these awe-inspiring ancient monuments, built over 2,000 years ago by the Hopewell culture that are now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This site showcases advanced engineering, astronomy, and ceremonial practices that make this one of the most important archaeological sites in North America.

This site illustrates real sacred geometry and hidden astronomical alignments. Not evidence of a lost advanced civilization or Atlantans, but proof that ancient cultures of ancient North America were far more sophisticated than early archaeologists once imagined.

The Great Circle Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, is one of the largest geometric enclosures in the world, spanning 1,200 feet in diameter with towering walls a

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Is history repeating itself? Discover how Saturn's critical transit through Aries, occurring from May 2025 to April 2028, might foreshadow major shifts in global power, conflict, and the economy. This deep dive uses astrology not as fortune-telling, but as a unique lens for pattern recognition in world events, focusing specifically on the intense US-China relationship and its potential trajectory during this astrologically significant period.

Explore the powerful, often tense astrological energy of Saturn in Aries – where structure meets impulse, and discipline clashes with fiery action. We journey through history, examining key periods when Saturn transited Aries (from the French Revolution to the late 1990s) and uncovering recurring themes:

Beavers, which were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 16th century, are making a comeback and in the process are helping to restore valuable wetland ecosystems. Known as nature's engineers they restore wetland habitats through dam-building and felling trees, slowing, storing and filtering water in their habitat, which attracts other wildlife and reduces flooding downstream.

In the UK, 90% of wetland habitats have been lost over the last 100 hundred years. These waterlogged environments are rich in biodiversity and the loss has led to a drastic decline of wildlife. They are also important in countering the effects of extreme weather conditions, storing and absorbing the water flow during floods and storms.

Guy Henderson heads to Devon to see beavers flourishing in English rivers. Derek Gow, a key figure in rewilding beavers, shows the difference they have made to his land. As the former farm was being transformed, Gow also introduced a number of other lost British species, tur

Decades of neglect have left rivers and streams across the world in crisis. It’s a complex problem but years of relentless modification has left many unnaturally straight and separated from their floodplains. Rivers naturally should curve and meander, cleaning the water and providing vital habitats for plants and animals.

One solution gaining popularity in Britain is “re-wiggling” a river, or restoring it to have meanders and curves.

RAZOR’s Gabrielle Lawrence visits Norfolk in England, to see how one “re-wiggled” river has transformed biodiversity in the area and why rivers and waterways need to become valued spaces again.

Welcome to Wild Woodbury in Dorset, where an extraordinary transformation is underway. Once an intensive farm, this 170-hectare site is now one of the UK’s most ambitious rewilding experiments, led by Dorset Wildlife Trust.

As the rains have poured in, a new river has emerged—spanning up to 100 metres wide. Hidden watercourses are resurfacing, lapwings and nightjars are nesting once more, and adders slip through the grasslands. Even the nearby village is helping shape the future of this recovering landscape.

But rewilding isn't just about letting water back in—some ideas worked, others didn’t. So how exactly did this land change so dramatically?

::: spoiler spoiler Do you say "Please" or "Thank you" to ChatGPT? If you're polite to OpenAI's chatbot, you could be part of the user base costing the company "Tens of millions of dollars" on electricity bills.

User @tomiinlove wrote on X, "I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying 'please' and 'thank you' to their models."

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, responded, "Tens of millions of dollars well spent - you never know." Thanks for lowering the world's anxiety around an AI uprising, Sam. We'll all be sure to waste even more energy by saying "Please" or "Thank You" from now on.

In February, Future PLC, the company that owns TechRadar, compiled a survey of more than 1,000 people on their AI etiquette. The survey found that around 70% of people are polite to AI when interacting with it, with 12% being polite in case of a robot uprising.

Obviously, there's an energy cost when using ChatGPT, which has massive AI-powered servers that run the whole opera

::: spoiler spoiler Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.

This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

But the team and independent astronomers stress that more data is needed to confirm these results.

The lead researcher, Prof Nikku Madhusudhan, told me at his lab at Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy that he hopes to obtain the clinching evidence soon.

"This is the strongest evidence yet there is possibly life out there. I can realistically say that we can confirm this signal within one to two years."

K2-18b is two-and-a-half times the size of Earth and is 700 trillion miles, or 124 light years, away from us - a distance

::: spoiler spoiler Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.

Airparif, an independent group that tracks air quality for France’s capital region, said this week that levels of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) have decreased 55 percent since 2005, while nitrogen dioxide levels have fallen 50 percent. It attributed this to “regulations and public policies,” including steps to limit traffic and ban the most polluting vehicles.

Air pollution heat maps show the levels of 20 years ago as a pulsing red — almost every neighborhood above the European Union’s limit for nitrogen dioxide, which results from the combustion of fossil fuels. By 2023, the red zone had shrunk to only a web of fine lines across and around the city, representing the busiest roads and highways.

The change shows how ambitiou

::: spoiler spoiler Towns in France and Belgium have been giving out free chickens for years to combat food waste – could the idea catch on elsewhere?

Around Easter in 2015, the French town of Colmar started handing out free chickens to its residents. The aim of this experimental new scheme, launched by the waste collection department in the town in north eastern France, was to reduce food waste.

The project had been in the works for some time. The then-president of Colmar Agglomération (a role similar to a mayor), Gilbert Meyer, had been reelected in 2014 with the slogan "one family, one hen", which aimed to encourage residents to adopt a chicken. The following year the operation was launched, in partnership with two nearby chicken farms. Residents were encouraged to think of the free eggs – the effort put into raising a chicken would pay off quickly.

More than 200 homes in four municipalities signed up and were given two chickens each – either red chickens (Poulet Rouge) or Alsac

The Klamath River now flows free for hundreds of miles from Southern Oregon to the ocean. But after the largest dam removal project in the U.S., challenges remain. Water shortages in the upper basin fuel toxic bacteria, disease outbreaks and conflicts over endangered fish as salmon swim upstream for the first time in a century.

::: spoiler spoiler The Vancouver Coastal sea wolf, also known as the Vancouver Island wolf, coastal wolf or sea wolf (Canis lupus crassodon)[2] is a subspecies of northwestern wolf, endemic to the coast of the Pacific Northwest.[3] They are a unique subspecies of wolf due to their semi-aquatic lifestyle, which includes a diet that is almost entirely marine-based.

The wolves play important roles in the cultures and spiritual beliefs of local indigenous people, with mythical creatures like the Gonakadet and Wasgo, found among the Tsimshian, Tlingit, and Haida peoples of British Columbia and Alaska, being inspired by them

Behaviour

One of the defining features of this subspecies is their movements between islands, in some cases swimming up to 12 kilometres (7.5 miles) between landmasses.[7] These movements are sometimes seasonal, including following the migration of salmon,[8] one of their preferred food sources.

Vancouver Island wolves have a diverse diet, with between 75 and 90 p

I just got an email from Aventon saying that their prices will increase on 11 April in response to the trade war. Almost all elements of ebikes in North America come from China and the price jumps from various vendors are probably going to be extreme.

Having bought one last November, I've ridden it 800km and have only used my car three times since. They solve all of the problems that kept me from wanting to bike commute before and really connected me to the landscape of a city I can now explore without the stress of driving. It's the best purchase I've made, even with a low end model that cost me $200 per month or $1400 total. That's one year of my car insurance and registration fees or one minor repair to my car.

Here's the important consideration. The used car market is fucked and much more expensive than it was a few years ago. The parts for almost every model of car are globally-sourced. Insurance is pulling out of risky markets and raising premiums on everyone else, with mine

::: spoiler spoiler On the first Sunday of spring, surrounded by row houses and magnolia trees, I came to a horrifying realization: My mom was right. I had been flipped off at least 17 times, called a “motherfucker” (in both English and Spanish), and a “fucking dork.” A woman in a blue sweater stared at me, sighed, and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself.” All of this because I was driving a Tesla Cybertruck.

I had told my mom about my plan to rent this thing and drive it around Washington, D.C., for a day—a journalistic experiment to understand what it’s like behind the wheel of America’s most hated car. “Wow. Be careful,” she texted back right away. Both of us had read the stories of Cybertrucks possibly being set on fire, bombed with a Molotov cocktail, and vandalized in every way imaginable. People have targeted the car—and Tesla as a whole—to protest Elon Musk’s role in Donald Trump’s administration. But out of sheer masochism, or stupidity, I still went ahead and spent a d

::: spoiler spoiler Tesla’s stock price continues to show volatility in early March trading, falling 0.9% in premarket activity after two days of gains. This follows Monday’s steep 15.4% drop that marked the company’s worst trading day in nearly five years.

The electric vehicle maker saw its shares rebound 7.6% on Wednesday and 3.8% on Tuesday. These gains came after President Donald Trump’s public commitment to purchase a Tesla Model S during a White House event with CEO Elon Musk.

Despite the recent uptick, Tesla stock remains down almost 50% from its mid-December record high. The current price hovers around $245.75 in premarket trading.

First-quarter delivery estimates are creating significant concern among investors. Wall Street’s consensus for Q1 sales initially projected around 430,000 vehicles. Recent estimates have dropped closer to 360,000 units.

This would represent a notable decline from the 387,000 cars Tesla delivered in the first quarter of 2024. Investors typically

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A damn good documentary about 18th century automata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nt7xLAfEPs