Category: General

The Fight Against Cancer Begins On Your Plate: How To Choose The Right Foods To Reduce Your Chances Of Getting Cancer

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The Fight Against Cancer Begins On Your Plate: How To Choose The Right Foods To Reduce Your Chances Of Getting Cancer
Food Choices And Your Chances Of Getting Cancer: How Simple Dietary Choices Can Make A Huge Difference With all the advances modern medicine–and alternative medical research–is making in the war against cancer, there is plenty to hope for, in terms of a future where even if you do comes down with some form of cancer, you will have a fighting chance.… Read the rest

Class Clown Strip-Searched And Jailed For Burping In Class: When Being A Kid Comes With Ridiculous Consequences, We Are No Longer A Free Nation

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Class Clown Strip-Searched And Jailed For Burping In Class: When Being A Kid Comes With Ridiculous Consequences, We Are No Longer A Free Nation
That Must Have Been Some Burp: 13-Year-Old Class Clown Strip-Searched And Jailed Over Fooling Around In Class We were all children once; some of us remain so well into our 20s and 30s and beyond. But for one humorless educator and her complicit school security officer, that child-like nature has no place–even in a middle school classroom. A 13-year-old boy in New Mexico was sent to the office for clowning in class, allegedly burping so loudly as to disrupt the lesson.… Read the rest

California Lawmakers And Their Pretzel Logic: Do Vaccines Protect People Or Not? Dr. K.P. Stoller weighs in on convoluted thinking in cali

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California Lawmakers And Their Pretzel Logic: Do Vaccines Protect People Or Not? Dr. K.P. Stoller weighs in on convoluted thinking in cali
Confused in California: Dr. K.P. Stoller Weighs In On California State Vaccine Regulation Pretzel Logic There is a war going on in California right now, and if you didn’t already know about it, that may be because–like most of our modern, far-off wars–we like to think that unless it is right in our faces we have no stake in it. Nothing could be further from the truth.… Read the rest

A Shocker: EPA Actually Takes Steps To Protect The Environment, Halting Sales Of Bayer’s Toxic Insecticide Belt

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A Shocker: EPA Actually Takes Steps To Protect The Environment, Halting Sales Of Bayer’s Toxic Insecticide Belt
EPA Wins One For The Environment For A Change, Wins Fight To Ban Bayer’s Deadly Insecticide Containing Flubendiamide In these days of captive agencies cravenly cowering before the power of the billion dollar corporations they are supposed to be regulating (for reference, please see Wall Street/SEC, factory farming/USDA, pharmaceuticals/FDA, etc. etc.) it always comes as a shock when a regulatory agency actually, you know, regulates something in such a way that it benefits the people and the environment.… Read the rest

Synergy Between Mind And Body: How Adding In A Program Of Meditation Can Build Up Your Feel-Good Endorphins To A Sum Greater Than The Whole

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Synergy Between Mind And Body: How Adding In A Program Of Meditation Can Build Up Your Feel-Good Endorphins To A Sum Greater Than The Whole
Gimmee My Endorphins: How Adding A Program Of Meditation And Mindfulness To Your Exercise Regime Can Boost Endorphin Release Most people who run or regularly perform other strenuous physical activity will tell you all about endorphins. They will sometimes go on and on until you’re ready to release a few endorphins of your own–on their face, with your fist. But there is proven truth in the tales of the “runner’s high:” endorphins to the point of euphoria are possible through exercise.… Read the rest

As We Take More And Stronger Measures To Cool Our Baking Air Using Air Conditioning, We Are Making The Overheating Problem Exponentially Worse

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As We Take More And Stronger Measures To Cool Our Baking Air Using Air Conditioning, We Are Making The Overheating Problem Exponentially Worse
As The Planet Gets Hotter, People Turn Up The Air Conditioning–Thus Making The Planet Hotter–And The Pattern Is Getting Exponentially Worse Summer in the northern hemisphere has already pushed the planet to the brink of yet another record-breaking year for heat. Much of the U.S. is enduring temperatures above 100°F (38°C) driving one of the world’s most air-conditioned countries to crank up their clanking, greenhouse gas-spewing machines.… Read the rest

The Other Victims Of U.S. Nuclear Warmaking Policy: The Forgotten Victims Of Nuke Testing In New Mexico Still Fighting For Recognition

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The Other Victims Of U.S. Nuclear Warmaking Policy: The Forgotten Victims Of Nuke Testing In New Mexico Still Fighting For Recognition
Government Still In Denial Over Nuclear Testing Claims: New Mexico ‘Downwinders’ Still Fighting For Compensation And Recognition A recent piece in Vice told the stories of the New Mexico “Downwinders,” people who claim to have been affected by fallout from early nuclear testing are as tragic in their innocence when we consider all we know about nuclear testing today. One woman, Barbara Kent, remembers being jolted awake by the blast, tossed from her bunk at a summer camp in nearby Ruidoso, New Mexico.… Read the rest

Altered Brain Activity In Obese Women: Study Shows That Activity In The Reward Centers Of Obese Women React Differently To Food

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Altered Brain Activity In Obese Women: Study Shows That Activity In The Reward Centers Of Obese Women React Differently To Food
Food Cues And Your Brain On Obesity: New Study Shows That Obese Women’s Brains Continue To React To Food Signals Even When They Are Full As we learn more and more about the brain, the more we learn about how the entirety of the human body is interconnected. From evidence that gut bacteria can control our cravings for certain foods to a recent study that seems to indicate that obese women’s brains continue to react to food stimuli even after they are full, there has never before been such a time when we might understand how the organism works.… Read the rest

How Smart Is Smart? Using An MRI To Quantify Human Intelligence

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How Smart Is Smart? Using An MRI To Quantify Human Intelligence
IQ Testing And Beyond: How Science Is Making Use Of MRI Technology To Quantify Human Intelligence Imagine a conversation among dog owners as to whose breed is the smartest. The owner of the bloodhound might say his dog is smartest, due to the breed’s ability to hunt down prey unerringly. But the owner of the border collie might attempt to claim the prize based on her breed’s ability to herd sheep and take non-verbal commands.… Read the rest

Why Aren’t We Growing Hemp: A Primer On The World’s Most Misunderstood–And Potentially Beneficial Crop

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Why Aren’t We Growing Hemp: A Primer On The World’s Most Misunderstood–And Potentially Beneficial Crop
Hemp May Be The World’s Most Misunderstood Crop: Why It Is Banned And What We Are Missing Out On There are a lot of people who don’t understand what hemp is, and the benefits it is capable of giving us. Famously, George Washington grew hemp, and during the colonial period, growing hemp was considered a patriotic duty, as it was used to make much-needed rope and other products.… Read the rest