You read that right: the overly thin and the overly thick are both tending towards shorter and less healthy lives with greater chances of an early death. It even appears that when faced with being overweight or underweight, being overweight carries the greater advantage.
It sounds preposterous: life as we know it is a slave to time and one of the key conditions of living is that a grave awaits us. But is this really a fact, or simply how it normally works? If we could stop aging,
We can basically all agree that the best way to feed the world would involve as little spraying as possible, as few added chemicals as possible, have plants defend themselves against pests or diseases, and then have them carry as many nutrients as possible to our
I was recently discussing birth control with friends of mine, about the various costs and advantages of each system. We discussed condoms, emphasizing their relative safety in use (for preventing both pregnancy and disease). We also discussed “the pill,” which the Germans call “the
In the mountains of the Amazon, the Yanomami live an existence separate from civilization as we know it. Discovered in 2009 in Venezuela, with their exact location being been kept secret to protect them, the Yanomami presented the ability to compare the bacteria in their guts with
If you look at the uninformed narrative, it would seem that countries like Ethiopia are just giant deserts where people are bound to starve and die of thirst. When we talk about food, we frequently talk about how much is produced, and forget to
Up until I heard lectures on ecology in my university, I hadn’t really thought about the energy and water cost of animal agriculture. Until I watched Cowspiracy, I didn’t realize how completely insane the situation was. When a recent Trucost study for the United Nations regarding
If you haven’t been paying attention, I don’t blame you for at first not believing this. After all, companies go to great lengths to greenwash their image and present themselves as progressive and environmentally responsible, even while they turn your land to deserts and
It sounds like a fruit salad from another planet, but really all the genes are naturally found on Earth. As you may have suspected though, the organisms carrying them have been slightly modified to produce more of a certain desired substance (lycopene with the
The human impact on this planet has been huge in a relatively short period of time. These pictures are not about data, but about better picturing this impact through visual examples. While viewing these, keep in mind that our current extinction rate is 1000x
