Archive for the 'Health' Category
Is a Generalized Crackup Occurring in Britain? The Average Person Spends 2-1/4 Hours of Every Day Worrying
January 2nd, 2009Could this possibly be true? Via: Reuters: Britain is becoming a nation of worriers, according to a new survey, with the financial crisis giving people ever more reason to fret about their lives. The average person now spends 2-1/4 hours of every day worrying — six and half years of the average life span — […]
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Paralyses 12-Year-Old Girl
December 14th, 2008Via: Times Online: A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been left paralysed from the waist down by a mystery illness that came on 30 minutes after she was given the new anticervical cancer jab. Ashleigh Cave suffered dizziness and headaches soon after the vaccination at her school and then deteriorated rapidly, collapsing several times over the following […]
Light Pollution: Our Vanishing Night
December 12th, 2008Clear skies at night here on the Farmlet are astonishing. They put the whole show on Earth into perspective. Owen is going to have great fun with a telescope here! Via: National Geographic: Living in a glare of our own making, we have cut ourselves off from our evolutionary and cultural patrimony—the light of the […]
Pollution Causing Feminisation of Males Across Multiple Species
December 8th, 2008Via: Independent: The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals. The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, […]
Exposure to Media Damages Children’s Long-Term Health
December 3rd, 2008Becky and I don’t have a TV, so what we’re doing with Owen is letting him see that there’s a TV at his grandparents’ house. The TV will be turned on for a few minutes with him in the room, and then we turn it off. We don’t want him to watch TV, but we […]
90 Percent of U.S. Infant Formula May Be Contaminated with Melamine; FDA Abruptly Declares Chemical Safe for Babies
December 1st, 2008Via: Natural News: Up to 90 percent of the infant formula sold in the United States may be contaminated with trace amounts of melamine, the toxic chemical linked to kidney damage, according to recent tests. The FDA’s test results, which the agency hid from the public and only released after the Associated Press filed a […]
Melamine Traces Found in U.S. Infant Formula; FDA Says, “No Cause for Concern”
November 26th, 2008Via: New York Times: Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it had discovered the toxic chemical melamine in infant formula made by an American manufacturer, raising the possibility that the problem was more extensive in the United States than previously thought. While few details were available late Tuesday, agency officials said they had discovered […]
Study: Unhappy People Watch More TV
November 18th, 2008I’ve noticed a profound link between poverty and TV. I don’t know if it’s a symptom of poverty or one of the possible causes of it, but poor people tend to watch a lot of TV. I don’t mean poor, in terms of intentionally choosing a low income lifestyle. I mean poor as in, broke, […]
U.S. Bans Food Imports from China
November 14th, 2008Via: Times Online: Products from the dairy company whose tainted formula killed at least four babies are back on the shelves in China just as the United States issued a ban on Chinese food imports in case of similar contamination. Such a broad ban by the Food and Drug administration on goods from an entire […]
Noosphereoogle Detects Flu Outbreaks Faster Than CDC
November 12th, 2008It’s the Noosphere. It’s Google. It’s the Noosphereoogle. Here are some comments from a previous post called, Astonishing Security Breach at South African Nuclear Facility: There’s a google tool anyone can use to observe meme saturation over time. It’s interesting stuff. http://www.google.com/trends Maybe .mil/.gov has a way of excluding the influence of crap culture and […]
