Archive for the 'Health' Category
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
October 26th, 2018Begins? haha That’s a good one. Just off the top of my head, I thought of this one from 2011. Via: New York Times: The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children […]
Microplastics Found in 90 Percent of Table Salt
October 19th, 2018Via: National Geographic: Microplastics were found in sea salt several years ago. But how extensively plastic bits are spread throughout the most commonly used seasoning remained unclear. Now, new research shows microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands sampled worldwide. Of 39 salt brands tested, 36 had microplastics in them, according to a […]
Sperm Counts Continue to Fall
October 14th, 2018Via: The Atlantic: Men’s sperm have been decreasing in number and getting worse at swimming for some time now—and, at least in the United States and Europe, new research says it’s getting worse. A pair of new studies unveiled this week at the Scientific Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in Denver […]
Too Fat to Fight
October 10th, 2018Via: Army Times: It’s well known at this point that just under 30 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 ? the prime age to join the Army ? aren’t eligible to join. But beyond that, almost a third of those who sit down with a recruiter to take the first steps are immediately disqualified. […]
More Than One-Third of U.S. Adults Consume Fast Food Each Day
October 6th, 2018Via: Newsweek: On a given day, 36.6 percent of American adults will consume fast food, and that percentage only rises with higher income brackets. Researchers at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics studied the fast food consumption of adults in the United States. Released Wednesday, the report compares the […]
High Sugar Content of Modern Fruit Varieties Causing Illnesses in Zoo Animals
October 1st, 2018Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Selective breeding has made the fruit we eat so full of sugar, Melbourne Zoo has had to wean its animals off it. … “The issue is the cultivated fruits have been genetically modified to be much higher in sugar content than their natural, ancestral fruits,” says Dr Michael Lynch, the zoo’s […]
Ex-Google Employee Warns of ‘Disturbing’ China Plans
September 26th, 2018Via: BBC: A former Google employee has warned of the firm’s “disturbing” plans in China, in a letter to US lawmakers. Jack Poulson, who had been a senior researcher at the company until resigning in August, wrote that he was fearful of Google’s ambitions. His letter alleges Google’s work on a Chinese product – codenamed […]
Meet the People Falling for Scripted Robots
September 26th, 2018Is this actually contributing to Japan’s declining population? I had assumed that work related stress in Japan was simply too much to handle for a growing number of people, and that the bizarre digital escapism was a symptom of that. Would the otaku-as-pathology phenomenon be happening if work-life balance existed in Japan? In my opinion, […]
Bay Area City Blocks 5G Deployments Over Cancer Concerns
September 10th, 2018Via: TechCrunch: The Bay Area may be the center of the global technology industry, but that hasn’t stopped one wealthy enclave from protecting itself from the future. The city council of Mill Valley, a small town located just a few miles north of San Francisco, voted unanimously late last week to effectively block deployments of […]
Emirates Jumbo Jet Quarantined at New York’s JFK with ‘Multiple’ Sick Passengers
September 5th, 2018Via: CNBC: Federal health authorities and local police quarantined an Emirates Airline jumbo jet Wednesday morning in New York after passengers were reported ill on the flight from Dubai. The plane landed at 9:12 a.m. at John F. Kennedy International Airport with “multiple sick passengers,” according to the Port Authority of New York and New […]
