You have probably heard that we have 93% fewer food crops available today than 100 yeas ago. That a great portion of our food diversity has gone extinct and disappeared. It seems logical when you look at the infographic above based on a 1983 survey of
Antibacterial compounds have been used to help humans overcome otherwise difficult bacteria since 1928, when Alexander Fleming discovered penacillin. Penicillin then came into use in the late 1940s, where it helped my grandfather overcome an ear infection that had afflicted him for over a year.
Growing up, I never heard of the economic hitmen. The economic hitmen are the players in this complex game which went on, just beyond my awareness as a kid, in countries across the world. As a kid, it seemed like pure paranoia that leaders like Sadam
Most of us understand that the planet is warming, and that even though antarctic ice is slightly increasing: the overall amount of sea ice is pretty constantly decreasing. Both the direct release of heat through combustion processes, as well as the amount of heat
According to Dr.Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, pouring so many billions into cancer research is a waste of money. Smith says that cancer is, in fact, the closest one can come to surrealist Luis Buñuel wish for “a slower death.”
Since 2011 or even earlier, I have been seeing images, articles, and storytellers all recounting of a “banana experiment.” This experiment is supposedly the groundbreaking proof that our sometimes rabid defense of power structures and tradition are actually evolutionarily grounded. Before I explain what
If you look at your favorite pseudoscientific website, you will probably find a story about how taking “selfies” (or photos of yourself) is indicative of narcissism and mental illness. Certainly, most sites we name on our “list of bad sources” have posted this at
Every year, or actually multiple times every year, GALLUP asks citizens of the United States what they perceive to be the most important problem facing us. Unsurprisingly the largest single and most named category was “the economy,” which has remained the number one “what
Growing up, my family always had a Christmas tree. We bought a new one every year, preferring the traditional evergreen fir-tree to any plastic analogue. When I got to be about 5 years old, I began to ask why we required a freshly cut
German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer just came back from Mossul after spending 7 months embedded with the IS. Far from being captured, he actually managed to negociate a place among their ranks as a journalist. What he has to say is, unsurprisingly, similar but different
