By Health Tips Now If you often find yourself suffering from back and neck pain, you may have blamed your bed or even your pillow for the discomfort. But the real problem might be something else. Many of us spend hours looking down at our…
By Catherine J Frompovich Over a century ago (1905), when vaccines were still ‘new’, one independent ‘anti-vaxxer’ Pastor Henning Jacobson and his wife resisted mandatory vaccination against smallpox and mumps when made mandatory by Massachusetts. Pastor Jacobson refused vaccinations claiming “he and his son had…
By Alex Pietrowski The eugenics movement has always been problematic, it has always reflected a desire to have people be in perfect health as a society, not really as individuals, but as a group. ~Liam Scheff Eugenics in one form or another has always been a…
By Health Tips Now Some people find spring cleaning therapeutic. No matter if you do it small and plan on doing just one room or are you going to do it big and do the whole house, cleaning is seen as a physical activity. The…
By Katica Maric Agriculture has been practiced since 10,000 B.C.E. and was an essential component in the evolution of society as it allowed humans to adapt to ecosystems by growing their own food and thus settle into communities and develop large populations. Before World War…
By School of Life We associate being dutiful with being safe – that’s how it worked at school. But once we are in the big world, too much of a concern for duty can be our downfall. “We start off in life being very interested…
By Health Tips Now A common solution to anxiety and depression is to take drugs like Xanax or Prozac. In fact, these medications are some of the most widely prescribed drugs. Besides they come with a risk of addiction they also come with a lot…
By Jay, Med School Insiders Reading helped me transform my life. Here’s how, and here’s why you should do it too. Editor’s note: Although this video is intended for med students, it is super useful for everyone else! We don’t necessarily agree with book recommendations –…
Gary G. Kohls, MD, April 4th, 2017 The famous date “April 4th, 1984” appeared in one of the early pages of George Orwell’s most important novel (although “Animal Farm” was in the same league as the novel “1984”). The novel was a warning to readers…
By Carey Wedler California could soon codify resistance to federal marijuana prohibition if state lawmakers pass a recently introduced bill. Assembly Bill 1578 seeks to bar law enforcement in California from cooperating with federal authorities in ways that violate the state’s cannabis laws. Citing both…
James Martin, Macquarie University and Stephen Bright, Edith Cowan University Given the manifest inability of law enforcement to control the illicit drugs trade, it is worth questioning why so much emphasis is placed on law enforcement over other, more effective, evidence-based drug policies. The announcement…
By Derrick Broze At a recent geoengineering conference two Harvard engineers announced plans for a real-world climate engineering experiment beginning in 2018. The science of geoengineering has increasingly become a part of the public conversation around climate change and an ever-controversial topic within the scientific…
By Brianna Acuesta It takes just a few minutes to absorb the mercury from an entire lake. Scientists from the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Sciences just invented a device that many are calling a “super sponge” that can absorb mercury from polluted…
By Health Tips Now Although marijuana and hemp are members of the same species, Cannabis sativa, they are in effect completely different plants. About a dozen varieties of hemp plants are cultivated for food, and they contain about 0.001 percent the main psychoactive ingredient in…
Ever wish science would surprise you with some unconventional ways to get healthy that don’t take much work? Here are a few counter-intuitive ways to get healthier that may surprise you. If these aren’t on your radar yet, they should be… Cannabis smoothies, anyone? Did…
By Catherine J Frompovich PubMed published the Abstract of a 2011 science paper titled “Long-term exposure to microwave radiation provokes cancer growth: evidences from radars and mobile communication systems” (Yakymenko I1, Sidorik E, Kyrylenko S, Chekhun V.), which originally was published in Experimental Oncology, 2011…
By Catherine J Frompovich The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) and Jeffrey M. Smith, Executive Director, along with other prominent researchers, produced a most detailed and informative 12-page report titled “Can Genetically-Engineered Foods Explain the Exploding Gluten Sensitivity?” which provides information I think readers ought…
Op-ed by David R. Montgomery, University of Washington One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming is inherently sustainable. It can be, but it isn’t necessarily. After all, soil erosion from chemical-free tilled fields undermined the Roman Empire and other ancient societies…
By Anti-Media Staff Sweden — Craving more of a science fiction-style existence? Perhaps you should seek a job with one of the companies at Epicenter, an employment hub in Sweden. The Associated Press reported Monday that companies there have begun implanting microchips in their employees, marking…
By Amanda Froelich Don’t believe the hype: marijuana is not a gateway drug, it’s a medicine. Despite the fact that countless individuals have used cannabis oil to heal their afflictions, the U.S. Cancer Institute lists cannabis as a ‘cure’ for cancer on its website, and…
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