Leo Tolstoy once wrote that “freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become […]
General Health
11 Must-Reads on What Industrial Farming Has Wrought
GMOs are far from the only health and environmental risk industrial farming has wrought. The quest for profits through things like higher yields, faster and more dramatic growth cycles, and more uniform “product” has come with scant concern for how it might affect the overall health of plants or animals, quality of the food […]
Cancer & the Trouble of Too Much Medicine
Earlier this summer, a working group of the National Cancer Institute said we need a new definition of cancer. Its recommendations were published in JAMA this past July. “We need a 21st-century definition of cancer instead of a 19th-century definition of cancer, which is what we’ve been using,” Dr. Otis W. Brawley of the […]
Why You Need (Deep) Sleep
Under normal circumstances, few of us would go for long stretches of time without eating – or eating enough. None of us can last long without breathing. Yet plenty of folks seem to think they can do with minimal sleep and still stay healthy and productive. Not so. Just as we need food and […]
Health & Happiness
If, like us, you get Dr. Mercola’s daily emails, you may have already seen his recent feature on the “22 Positive Habits of Happy People.” Or if you follow us on Facebook or Twitter (and if you don’t, why not head over and connect with us now?), you may have seen it there. It […]
Antibiotics Everywhere – Even in Your Food
No sooner had March begun than news spread about the rise of a new “superbug” that kills about half of all who contract it through bloodstream infections. Microbes like this one – called Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or “CRE” for short – are one result of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. And it’s not just […]
Why Would You Want Antique X-rays?
Maybe you’ve heard the phrase “cognitive dissonance” – the discomfort you feel when aware you have conflicting beliefs, thoughts or feelings. The phrase was coined by social psychologist Leon Festinger, whose classic study of a doomsday cult found that when our beliefs are challenged, we may actually double down and believe harder: When the world […]