Those tempting candy bars and chip bags flanking the grocery store checkout line aren’t placed there by accident, but these impulse buy items will soon be a thing of the past in Berkeley, California after the city became the first to ban “junk food” ...Read More
Cleaning products often come in disposable plastic packagings, such as little soap bottles or window sprays. Other than the massive amounts of waste this creates, the problem is that the packaging itself jacks up the price of the product. In fact, packaging can make ...Read More
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have a taken key step in finding a treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). In a clinical trial of the cancer drug bexarotene, it was found that the drug repairs the protective myelin coatings around nerves that are damaged by ...Read More
Every year, more than 600,000 people are released from prison in the US, the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world. One of the biggest challenges faced by those getting out of prison is finding a roof over their heads, which can ...Read More
Though we cannot change the genes we inherit at birth, we can influence the way those genes are expressed. That is the power of epigenetics, which refers to the biochemical regulators of our gene expression. As described in MindBodyGreen, these regulators consist of tiny molecular ...Read More
The 2020 election is fast approaching and we’ve been sharing stories on vote-in mailing, companies giving paid leave for employees to work the polls, and even NBA arenas turning into voting locations. Today …Read More
Record numbers of voters will likely cast their ballot by mail this November, but despite what some may say about the process, voter fraud, including mail-in voting fraud, is very rare. Need more …Read More
The election is fast approaching, but 58 percent of regular poll workers are over the age of 60, leading to rising concerns over who will fill in for these vulnerable employees during the …Read More
