Can You Pass the 10-Second Balance Test?
STORY AT-A-GLANCE Research published in August 2022, confirms that the ability to perform a 10-second, one-leg stand is independently linked to all-cause mortality.
Francis Angevine
DISCUSS: Mass shootings, “conspiracy theories” & free speech
This past month has seen an influx of news stories, all somehow featuring the supposed negative effects of “online misinformation”, “hate speech” and/or “conspiracy theories”.
In New Zealand a few days ago, one couple had their baby placed in the care of a hospital after refusing to approve a
FDA Approves Absurd Pill to Delay Diabetes
STORY AT-A-GLANCE The U.S.
What Is the Best Disinfectant for Surfaces?
STORY AT-A-GLANCE COVID-19, the novel coronavirus identified in Wuhan City, China, in December 2019, is part of a family of viruses with a crown- or halo-like (corona) appearance.
British public needs to reduce air pollution because it’s as dangerous as Covid, says Chris Whitty
Chris Whitty, who led the government’s response during the coronavirus crisis has warned that air pollution is as big of a health risk to the public as the virus, the Daily Mail reported.
Whitty seemed keen on once again mobilising members of the public to shame those who refuse
Poland: Veto Bill Targeting Sex Ed
(London) – President Andrzej Duda of Poland should veto a regressive and discriminatory bill that threatens sex education, including about sexual orientation and gender identity, Human Rights Watch said today.
The proposed legislation is a revised version of a bill including similar provisions that Duda vetoed earlier this year, calling for
6 Psychological Effects of Losing a Mother
Losing a mother can certainly have a profound effect on your life.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Urges Elon Musk to Release 'Everything Without Filter'
Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, has urged current CEO Elon Musk to release all “Twitter files” related to the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Texas Subpoenas BlackRock for Documents Linked to ESG Effort
The Texas legislature subpoenaed BlackRock and any of its subsidiaries and affiliate entities last month for any documents related to the asset manager’s effort to push Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies.
The subpoena, first reported by Fox Business, was from the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs and
At UN Talks, Countries Divided on Approach to Plastics Agreement
Delegates from over 150 countries, as well as civil society groups and industry representatives, gathered in Uruguay last week to negotiate a new global treaty limiting plastic pollution.
How people 50 years from now would view us if we halted the biotechnology madness today
It is the year 23 PB (post-biotechnology), or 2076 AD in that old reckoning that few of us use these days …
Most historians of my generation, born long after the discovery of the DNA double helix, realise that rehashing the events of the now banished biotech era involves not only
Iraq: Activist Imprisoned for Peaceful Criticism of Security Forces
(Beirut) – A criminal court in Baghdad sentenced an activist to three years in prison on December 5, 2022, for alleged criticism of the deceased former head of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassim Suleimani, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 6, the authorities detained the activist, Hayder Finjan al-Zaidi,
US Supreme Court Case Puts Basic Voting Rights on Trial
Tomorrow the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a very consequential case over voting rights.
The COVID Jabs’ Mechanisms of Injury
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
In this interview, return guest Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at MIT for over five decades, discusses her paper, “Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV- 2 mRNA Vaccinations: The Role of G-quadruplexes, Exosomes and MicroRNAs,” published in the June 2022 issue of Food and Chemical Toxicology.
Brooks: Government Intervening in Rail Talks Creates Same 'System Is Rigged' Hazard of Bank Bailouts
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the federal government intervening to prevent a rail strike will give companies an advantage in negotiations and creates a moral hazard like the bank bailouts in 2008 and will cause people to think “the system is rigged.
