Archive for the 'Health' Category
Today, I Want to Try to Sell You Some Soap
December 1st, 2010I noticed that a reader bought a gallon of Dr. Bronner’s Unscented soap on Amazon via Cryptogon. Most of you probably know about Dr. Bronner’s soaps, but I want to do a quick post about this just in case you’re unfamiliar with these products. Some of the things I do with the Dr. Bronner’s Unscented […]
Review of the TSA X-Ray Backscatter Body Scanner Safety Report: Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife
November 29th, 2010Via: My Helical Tryst: I am a biochemist working in the field of biophysics. … According to the TSA safety documents, AIT uses an 50 keV source that emits a broad spectra (see adjacent graph from here). Essentially, this means that the X-ray source used in the Rapiscan system is the same as those used […]
TSA Agents Use Same Set of Gloves to Carry Out Multiple Grope Downs
November 26th, 2010Via: Natural News: There’s a startling fact about the TSA pat-downs that most of us have not realized: TSA agents often do not change their latex gloves between pat-downs! With these pat-down reaching into your pants, feeling your genitals, and sweeping bare armpits and buttocks, those latex gloves being worn by the TSA agents are […]
Insurance Companies Using Electronic Data About Lifestyle and Purchasing Habits to Generate Risk Profiles
November 26th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity. Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health—a costly process. Today, however, data-gathering companies have such extensive files on most U.S. consumers—online shopping details, catalog […]
Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick?
November 23rd, 2010Via: PC World: Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den […]
Into the Abyss: The Diving Suit That Turns Men Into Fish
November 21st, 2010I had thought that the liquid breathing system depicted in The Abyss was purely fictional. According to the developer of the system in the piece below, U.S. Navy SEALs were using such a system in the 1980s. Via: Independent: Humans have proven themselves remarkably adept at learning to do what other animals can do naturally. […]
A Vegan No More
November 21st, 2010Update: Author Receives Death Threats —End Update— This might be useful if you are having to go through watching someone kill themselves and/or their children on a vegan diet. Or not. Via: Voracious Vegan: Many of you know that I have recently been struggling for the first time in my life with health problems. When […]
Ron Paul: American Traveler Dignity Act
November 19th, 2010Via: Ron Paul: My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same laws as the […]
Scientist Who Studied How Mosquitoes Transmit Diseases Dies After Ingesting Cyanide
November 17th, 2010Via: The Tampa Tribune: A University of South Florida researcher stumbled out of her hotel room Monday night and told two guests she had ingested cyanide, police said. Chitra Chauhan, 33, wife and mother of a 3-year-old, was pronounced dead at a hospital about two hours later, victim of an apparent suicide. A small amount […]
Scientists Warn Airport X-Ray Scanners May Be Unsafe
November 17th, 2010Via: AFP: Some US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners now being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. “They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays,” Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray […]
