Monday, October 6th, 2014
Would you rather have ice in your soda, or drink water from a fast food restaurant’s toilet? Any normal person would go for the ice of course. But according to a 7th grade student’s winning science fair project, any normal person would be wrong. 12 year old Jasmine Roberts set out to test both
Monday, September 29th, 2014
The old veteran looked down at the boy and smiled. A child is an extremely rare thing in a veteran’s hospital. There is no Pediatrics department, or an OB/GYN. The big departments are Urology, Orthopedics and Mental...
Sunday, September 28th, 2014
What if psychiatric drugs like Prozac and Zoloft were no more effective than a lump of sugar? What if there were natural ways to combat depression that were completely free? Dr. Irving Kirsch analyzed 38 separate clinical...
Friday, November 15th, 2013
All around the world, “smart” women are foregoing children in favor of career, ambition, or personal endeavors. That was the conclusion London School of Economics researcher Satoshi Kanazawa made in his book The Intelligence Paradox, Why the...
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Think about it. Our brains are fabulous tools, the thing that makes us human, but our brains also hold us back, from being all we can be. Sometimes we are fooled, and sometimes we fool ourselves. We...
Friday, October 25th, 2013
When the Reverend Jim Jones told his followers they were all going to drink Kool-Aid and go to a happier place, they all lined up and drank it. The Reverend Jones was their God. Like many leaders...
Friday, August 30th, 2013
She was in her late twenties, with flowing brown hair and clear pale skin. I met her on my morning commute. The 880 from Oakland to San Jose is one of the worst commutes in the Bay...
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Rest easy citizen, Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine is here to protect you from the evils of coffee (cups). Apparently there is not enough crime in Ohio to keep Dewine busy, so instead he has invested his...
Monday, July 15th, 2013
Niels Finsen was 20 years old when the doctors told him that the lumps in his testes were metastatic. After a year of painful treatments, they said that it was hopeless; Niels had only six more months...
Friday, July 12th, 2013
The dog days of summer are upon us, and just as every year, there are casualties. Even on cooler days, the heat built up by a blazing sun can be dangerous to our four-legged friends. Most heat-related...
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Our ancestors evolved in the sun, so it is only natural that we require sunlight to be healthy. But most people are deficient in the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D, because they have been scared sunless. For decades...
