By 2029, Green Carbon Solutions’ engineered charcoal will enrich soil, purify water, and generate electricity using ‘every last piece from a piece of wood.’ INDIANTOWN, Fla.—Martin Ellis is building a first-in-the-U.S. business that he said will boost domestic manufacturing of silicon chips, solar panels, and steel while enriching soil, purifying water, and generating electricity. The
Having spent the last week poring over the JFK files, I can tell you the biggest question remains unanswered: Oswald’s coworker Bonnie Ray Williams says right before the assassination he was having a fried chicken sandwich. But Williams also says the chicken was bone in. Who eats a bone-in chicken sandwich? And who would serve
Curzio Malaparte was the Ernst Jünger of the Italians. They were born three years apart, Jünger in 1895 and Malaparte in 1898, and the outlines of their biographies are oddly similar. The son of a bourgeois businessman becomes the soldier who fights with honor in World War I. He returns from the trenches as a
Homestand is a book about baseball, and the author is a Mets fan. Thus, Homestand is a book about loss. It’s not only about loss, of course, and the Mets are only in the background. The 2022 Batavia Muckdogs, the centerpiece of Homestand, win most of their games, including an exciting playoff run. And Homestand
A former federal prosecutor was found dead Saturday morning at a home in Alexandria, Virginia, authorities said. Officers with the Alexandria Police Department were dispatched to the home at 9:18 a.m. Eastern Time on a report of an unresponsive woman. They arrived to find 43-year-old Jessica Aber, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of
South Texas rancher Antonio Céspedes Saldierna, 74, was driving his pickup on his ranch in Mexico when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED), detonating it. The force of the explosion flipped his truck onto its side, killing the retiree and his friend inside. A third occupant, his friend’s wife, was hospitalized. The
Pentagon chief of staff Joe Kasper indicated the investigation could include polygraphs and referrals for criminal prosecution. The Department of Defense has launched a new effort to track down the sources of unauthorized disclosures of sensitive and classified information, becoming the second executive branch department to take steps this week to plug information leaks. “Recent