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How Quantum Computing Could Upend Bitcoin

Originally published in Barron’s, August 8, 2025

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook and Instagram as CEO Zuckerberg Touts Free Speech

Originally published in Barron’s, January 7, 2025

Intel’s Big Bet That Sank the Stock and Its CEO

Originally published in Barron’s, December 3, 2024

Elon Musk accuses tech giants of profiting off AI that poses a ‘danger to humanity’ in OpenAI lawsuit

Originally published in The U.S. Sun, August 5, 2024

Panicked AI users revolt against Silicon Valley as tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon back down over policy changes

Originally published in The U.S. Sun, June 29, 2024

Plastic surgeons issue warning over counterfeit Botox that has left 22 women with horrendous reactions

Originally published on DailyMail.com, May 5, 2024

Furious North Dakotans slam Theodore Roosevelt National Park's plan to catch or cull TWO HUNDRED-strong wild horse herd linked to Native American leader Sitting Bull amid fears for ecosystem

Originally published on DailyMail.com, February 5, 2024

Shocking video shows wild horses being roped and dragged by ATV during federal round-up in Nevada that has seen 24 of the animals killed in the last month

Originally published on DailyMail.com, January 31, 2024

She Helped Build the Atomic Bomb to Stop the Nazis, But Was Haunted by What It Did to Japan

Originally published in Scientific American, August 17, 2023

Who Was Alessandra Giliani, 14th-Century Teen Anatomist?

Originally published in Scientific American, July 12, 2023

Thousands of Chicago-area children are exposed to lead each year. This is the story of a boy named Jedi

Originally published in The Chicago Reporter, July 11, 2023

Is there lead in there?

Originally published in The Chicago Reader, June 8, 2023

Chicago’s dirty secret: lead in municipal drinking water remains the greatest threat in communities of color

Originally published on ILLatinoNews.com, April 20, 2023

Chicago-based organization works to combat outsized effect of lead drinking water contamination impacting daycare centers

Originally published in The Chicago Reporter, April 3, 2023

quantum computing + emergent tech

IonQ Aims to Become the Nvidia of Quantum Computing. How Its CEO Sees That Happening.

Originally published in Barron’s, May 22, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Honeywell May Take Quantinuum Public in Next 2 Years

Originally published in Barron’s, March 29, 2025

Rigetti Computing Has Room to Grow. Why the CEO Is Tempering Expectations for Quantum.

Originally published in Barron’s, March 29, 2025

Quantinuum CEO Says the Future Includes Nvidia, and So Much More

Originally published in Barron’s, March 21, 2025

Oklo Signs Nuclear-Plant Agreement. Why Its CEO Sees a ‘Huge Amount of Potential.’

Originally published in Barron’s, March 20, 2025

D-Wave Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy.’ What It Means for Quantum Computing.

Originally published in Barron’s, March 13, 2025

D-Wave Quantum Is Poised to Dominate the Quantum Computing Sector. Just Ask Its CEO.

Originally published in Barron’s, February 11, 2025