The headline might sound dramatic, but the actual situation is a worse than I could fit in such a small space. Petroperu managed to have several major leaks during the last week of June, but news of the disaster took several days to reach
Falling asleep at night can be difficult, especially in an age where the streets never sleep and the internet’s always on. The keys to sleeping well lay in light, timing, body temperature, inner calm, and patience. Not sleeping enough can make you hungrier, unhealthier,
There have been many texts published about the personalities of those who stay up late: correlating it with intelligence or risk-taking behavior and infidelity. An in-depth Psychology Today analysis displayed the average bed-times (as well as wake-up times) of different levels of intelligence (as
The debate about the use (or danger) of synthetic vitamins has been going on for years, and depending on which vitamin we are talking about: there may be a difference, or none at all, in how your body deals with it. To clarify, a
The modification of plants using selective breeding, phytohormones which change how cells react or perceive themselves and their environment, for instance allowing an older plant to bloom or grow new roots, and even genomic editing are nothing new to the world of agriculture. The
For more than the last year, I have spent literally every single day working on social media; writing, sharing, debating, and debunking. ETT is not just a website, and just not just a Facebook page, in fact we also administrate the biggest open (anyone can
Even though few of us in the “civilized” world notice it: there is an ever-dwindling supply of clean water on this planet. That which remains continues to be polluted, used in industry, and sold in little plastic bottles. Water is the most important and
This video does a good job of describing Nyhan et al’s 2011 Dartmouth study into cognitive dissonance, which is an internal aggravation or frustration towards information that threatens your worldview. To put that in layman’s terms: it shows you how to convince people of facts
The most common attempt to dispel this, and many other important facts, is to claim that tree farms (monocultures that are semi-regularly “weeded”) are the same as real forests. The fact is: they are not. Our forests, along with the phytoplankton and algae, create
The short answer is: MSG is bad for you. Still, you can forgive some for not yet knowing this as the evidence of the negative effects of monosodium glutamate have only come to full fruition within the last 10 years. A meta-analysis published in 2006
