Do Redheads Need Less Vitamin D?

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Health Department Covers Up Illegal Lab in California

In mid-December 2022, Jesalyn Harper, a code enforcement oficer for the city of Reedley, California, responded to a seemingly routine complaint about parked cars outside a run-down decades-old warehouse. She got suspicious when she discovered a garden hose protruding through a rear wall, and a foul odor coming from a

Economist: Polling GOP on Economy 'Pointless' — Dislike of Biden Slants Answers

Michigan economics and public policy professor Justin Wolfers said Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that it is “pointless” to poll Republicans on the economy because their dislike of President Joe Biden slants their opinions. Anchor Boris Sanchez said, “You’ve got historically low unemployment, inflation that appears to be

Texas Ends Sales Tax on Menstrual Products, Baby Items

A new law went into effect in Texas on Friday, ending the sales tax on feminine hygiene products and family care items.

AUDIO: Iain Davis on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell – Sept 2nd 2023

Iain Davis returns to Perspective to discuss his on-going series of articles on “Synthetic Hegemonic Currency” (available on Geopolitics & Empire). SUPPORT OFFGUARDIAN For direct-transfer bank details click here. Read the full article at the original website References: * https://geopoliticsandempire.com/author/iain-davis/ * https://off-guardian.org/support-us/#bank

No Fun Allowed: 'Call of Duty' Turns to AI to Drive 'Toxicity' Out of Voice Chat

Voice chats in video games have long been a haven for young people who want to blow off steam and engage in friendly “trash talk,” but the mega-corporations that run the biggest franchises don’t like that. They’re planning to use AI to make video game chats just as

US Court rules against Internet Archive and, in doing so, against digital collections in all libraries

The Internet Archive, like hundreds of US libraries, is a non-profit institution.  Yet a court ruling in mid-August has sided with publishers’ commercial interests to disallow non-profit organisations from lending books. But there’s a significant catch – the protections afforded to the Internet Archive and all libraries under the first

What Are the Signs of Vitamin B Complex Deficiency?

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Why Collagen Is a Proven Necessity

Collagen is the most common and abundant of your body's proteins, accounting for about 30% of the total protein in your body.

My Journey From Illness And Despair Towards Truth

An awakening Whether religious or not, I think many readers here will relate to some of these experiences. In 2014 I was working for a UK organization which adjudicates financial disputes. The work was interesting, but the organization was going through a structural change which made no sense. Our work

Four technocrats are pursuing projects that are an existential threat to the world

Four powerful billionaires – Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen – are creating a world where “nothing is true and all is spectacle.”  Together they have four projects to pursue their visions: Web3, cryptocurrency, interplanetary colonisation and transhumanism. These four projects together with artificial intelligence are an existential threat

Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace

“But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable.

The Metaphysical as a Rational Option

One thing I believe my bent toward metaphysics has prepared me for is when something that falls into the realm of the “unseen” then becomes “seen,” I don’t freak out.

How the Heart Controls Where Blood Travels in the Body

One of my foundational beliefs is that many things exist around us that hide in plain sight and once you spot them, your entire perspective of reality and the way you live life can be profoundly transformed. A large part of my passion for medicine in turn arises from the

Wikipedia Is an Information Warfare Tool

Intelligence agencies have a long history of using propaganda as a tool of war, and the effectiveness of information warfare radically improved with the emergence of the internet, to say nothing of artificial intelligence and social media. If you're over 50, you can probably remember a time when your family