Month: February 2016

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Never combine these over-the-counter drugs – your life may be endangered

Fernando Kaskais

by: Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) Never before in the history of the world has the general public relied so heavily on pharmaceuticals to treat pain, calm nerves, or address a serious medical condition. And with so many different types of drugs, as well as different combinations of drugs available to consumers today, the threat of creating a deadly chemical experiment in your medicine cabinet couldn’t be more real. Most people who take pharmaceuticals probably aren’t thinking about how the individual drugs they take might act differently inside their bodies when exposed to other drugs. This phenomenon is called a drug interaction, … Continue reading Never combine these over-the-counter drugs – your life may be endangered

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Half-Earth

Fernando Kaskais

The Serengeti National Park. Photo by Medford Taylor/National Geographic Half of the Earth’s surface and seas must be dedicated to the conservation of nature, or humanity will have no future by Edward O Wilson (Edward O Wilson is a professor emeritus in entomology at Harvard. Half-Earthconcludes Wilson’s trilogy begun by The Social Conquest of Earth and The Meaning of Human Existence, a National Book Award finalist.)  Unstanched haemorrhaging has only one end in all biological systems: death for an organism, extinction for a species. Researchers who study the trajectory of biodiversity loss are alarmed that, within the century, an exponentially rising extinction rate … Continue reading Half-Earth

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Atomic Scientists Think 2016 Might Be The Year of Doomsday

Fernando Kaskais

by GabriellePickard Are we close to Doomsday? Will 2016 be the year the world meets its end? According to scientists implicated with the infamous “Doomsday Clock” we are. The Doomsday Clock characterizes a countdown to a potential global catastrophe. It was started in 1947 by members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The clock is run at the University of Chicago by a group of scientists, 16 of which are Nobel Laureates. The theory behind the Doomsday Clock is that midnight represents the dawn of a global disaster. The clock is currently set … Continue reading Atomic Scientists Think 2016 Might Be The Year of Doomsday

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Timeline of the Far Far Future

Fernando Kaskais

How long until the Sun turns into a black dwarf? How long before the Earth is destroyed? Don’t lose too much sleep over these questions, because the human race will be extinct millions of years before anyone has to worry about such cosmic calamities. That is, if we’re not knocked out by a collosal asteroid first. Explore the Far Future, based on data from NASA, Nature and climate experts The Potsdam Institute.   via: informationisbeautiful.net http://www.evolveandascend.com/2016/01/29/timeline-of-the-far-far-future/ Continue reading Timeline of the Far Far Future

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5 Ego Destroying Concepts That Prove There is No “You” After All

Fernando Kaskais

This post was originally published on SamBrinson.com “The central riddle I’ve set out to solve concerns the self’s continuity in change: how can we remain the same people over time, even as we change, sometimes considerably?” ― Julian Baggini, The Ego Trick What makes you… YOU? Silly question right? But think about it… If you lost all of your memories, would you still be you? What about your senses? Mental faculties? Most of us take the question of ‘Who Am I?’ for granted, but thanks to the questioning nature of philosophers and psychologists we are closer than ever to getting … Continue reading 5 Ego Destroying Concepts That Prove There is No “You” After All

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Am I Ugly?

Fernando Kaskais

What science says about my outer beauty. BY CHIP ROWE PHOTO BY CHRISTINE ASHBURN Certainly my face isn’t for everyone. My bulbous nose drifts to the right, and my chin is a bit weak, although it’s skillfully hidden behind a goatee. It’s more difficult to hide the bags under my eyes or the fact I have lost most of my hair, which probably kept me from a career in television. And a few months ago, after more than four decades of checking the mirror daily for zits, I noticed that my right ear lobe is shorter than my left. How … Continue reading Am I Ugly?

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Map of World War Shows 4,500 Years of Global Conflict

Fernando Kaskais

Users of Wikipedia have created an interactive map that illustrates where all the wars documented since 2500 BC have taken place around the world. Data from Wikipedia has been used to put together a map of the world’s wars since 2500 BC, that illustrates where and when the world’s conflicts have occurred. A group of researchers took information from DBpedia in a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make it available on the web. In DBpedia and Wikipedia they found 12,703 instances of military conflict battles that have a place and a date reference, and then used the Nodegoat system of data management to visualize them on a world map. ​The … Continue reading Map of World War Shows 4,500 Years of Global Conflict

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10 New Ways Other Countries Are Actually Solving Problems—and Kicking Our Ass

Fernando Kaskais

Apparently for some, American exceptionalism means exceptional stupidity. By Larry Schwartz / AlterNet The Presidential candidates have been sounding off for almost two years now, pointing out (or in many cases manufacturing) all of America’s problems, and offering solutions they believe will make them the next President. The candidates, especially to the right of the political spectrum, extoll America as being exceptional, and they score empty points with voters by talking about how the rest of the planet looks to the United States to solve the world’s woes. It is surprising, then, to see how many of these seemingly intractable … Continue reading 10 New Ways Other Countries Are Actually Solving Problems—and Kicking Our Ass

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Sail (Far) Away: At Sea with America’s Largest Floating Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists

Fernando Kaskais

I’ve never been a fan of cruises, mainly because you can’t leave if they suck. Pity, then, Jezebel reporter Anna Merlan, who spent a week aboard the Conspira Sea cruise. Her account of the experience was actually rather restrained, all things considered. I’m betting that the Popular Mechanics team won’t be so gentle when their report is published… by Anna Merlan “Once we’re in international waters, every woman on the ship gets to make love to whoever she wants,” Sean David Morton said, with a wink. It was not entirely clear why we couldn’t have done that already, where we were, … Continue reading Sail (Far) Away: At Sea with America’s Largest Floating Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists

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JOHNSON AND JOHNSON LOSES BATTLE IN LAWSUIT AGAINST WOMAN ACCUSING BABY POWDER CAUSES OVARIAN CANCER

Fernando Kaskais

SOURCE: NEWS EVERYDAY A St. Louis jury has recently awarded $72 million to the family of a woman from Alabama whose ovarian cancer death was traced to years of using Johnson & Johnson talcum powder. After the plaintiff’s death at 62 last year, her son Marvin Salter took over and continued the court battle against the company known for its Baby Powder and Shower to Shower powder which both contained talcum powder. “Continuing with this trial was indeed painful, but at the end of the day it was what she wanted and because of her wishes is why I continue … Continue reading JOHNSON AND JOHNSON LOSES BATTLE IN LAWSUIT AGAINST WOMAN ACCUSING BABY POWDER CAUSES OVARIAN CANCER