Us:spx articles

  • here's how the US has changed me

    Millie Hart is a 31-year-old mother who moved to Ohio from the West Midlands more than two years ago. She recently took to TikTok to reveal all of the ways living in America has changed her.
  • Fungus among us

    Cat Campbell/For The Madera TribuneA bowl of homemade mushroom barley soup is a meal in itself.Sometimes it can be cringe-worthy to realize that one of my favorite foods (mushrooms) is actually a fungus. But then again, one of my favorite cheeses is Gorgonzola, and it gets its flavor and appearance from mold. And I mustn’t fail to include yeast, which helps us bake breads, as all three are types of fungi. So, I guess I am not really very picky.This time of year, I like to walk around my...
  • China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked

    China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states. Geopolitics, like any conflict, is dramatic: rivals jostle for hegemony on a 3-D chessboard, war threatens, etc. The focus of this drama is on the leaders' calculations and the pieces being moved around the board in the complex battle...