Somewhere between 5-6% of Americans are vegetarians (according to a 2012 Gallup pole) and 8-10% of Germans identify themselves as vegetarians. I see videos on my Facebook newsfeed, on a daily basis, aimed at convincing me that eating meat is unethical and that we need to
To illustrate how broken our online search system has become we can first look at weight loss advice. It’s a relatively benign topic which impacts an ever-increasing number of people, approximately 40% of adults in the United States have searched online for weight loss
Salt water is famed for its abundance, but also for being bad to drink or use on your crops. After all, haven’t we all heard the term “to salt the Earth” being used to mean decimating it? Researchers from the Netherlands proved that this
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.
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
There have been a lot of debates about vaccines in the public forum. We still see literally hundred of thousands of people completely sure that vaccines cause autism, that the ethyl mercury in thiomersal causes alzheimers, and many other spurious assumptions. Vaccines aren’t perfect
Mercury is an element which is naturally present in our environment. It is also known as quicksilver. It is a heavy, silvery-white metal which is liquid at room temperature and evaporates easily. Mercury is usually found in nature in the form of cinnabar, used
As a student of molecular biology, I am frequently confused as to why people seem intent to either completely ignore all scientific evidence and claim that GMOs are “bad for humans and the environment,” or at the other extreme: determined to protect every single
There have been multiple articles, videos, radio shows and mentions on TV about the Peruvian Paracas skulls. You may have seen some of the articles with titles such as “Initial DNA analysis of Paracas elongated skull released – with incredible results” from the Ancient
