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How to solve your nutritional dilemma
Ashley Koff, registered dietician, is a world famous nutrition expert, health advocate, and best selling co–author of Mom Energy. Koff is regularly featured in health magazines like Nutritional Solutions and on the TV shows “Dr. OZ”, and “The Doctors”. Her expertise and insight into the Read More...
The world's biggest dragonfly
In the world of wind turbines, size does matter. The rule is: The bigger the turbine, the more power it generates. However, colossal windmills are most suitable for remote and open areas—at sea, for instance—where there are powerful winds and no view to obstruct. Italian architect Renzo Piano Read More...
Awake inside your dream: lucid dreaming
Imagine, you’re asleep and suddenly in the middle of a dream you become aware of the fact that you are dreaming. Maybe you’ll try to guide your dream, maybe you’ll try to fly, or to change the world around you, but it’s more likely you’ll just wake up. Dreams in which you become aware Read More...
Green tea sharpens your memory
Scientists have published the first physical evidence of how green tea improves memory, paving the way for its therapeutic use among people with memory problems like dementia. In addition to its well-documented benefits for the body, like cancer protection, heart health and weight loss, a number of Read More...
The magic of gardening
According the Huffington Post, those who garden are more likely than the average person to feel satisfied with their lives and show less signs of depression or unhappiness. A recent study in the Netherlands echoes this bit of news, suggesting that gardening can fight stress even better than Read More...
The power of optimism in a pessimistic world
Tired of reporting blood and guts Once upon a time a young man named Jurriaan Kamp worked as a free-lance journalist in war-torn areas. One day he realized that the more bombs fell and the more people were horribly injured, the more he got paid. That’s when he began to suspect there was Read More...
The vaccine dilemma
From time to time you’ll hear that we’ve lost our connection to the foods we eat. That we no longer know what we’re sticking in our mouths; where it comes from, how it grows, and what it took to get a crop from the field to the table. We don’t disagree with those points. In fact we want to Read More...
Landscaped landfill
Hiriya Mountain operated as a colossal waste facility for half the 20th century. Now called Ariel Sharon Park, it’s one of Israel’s prized possessions. Comprised of 565 million cubic feet of garbage and climbing more than 275 feet into the air, what was known as the Hiriya Waste Management Read More...
Legume seeds lower cholesterol
Pulses might be the most important food you’ve never heard of—the dried seeds of plants in the legume family, which includes beans, lentils and chickpeas. They have long been considered an important part of any healthy diet—in fact they are a staple food for many indigenous diets Read More...
“Talking is very primitive”
Earlier this year, at the annual meeting of the World Future Society, futurist Jose Cordeiro sparked controversy with his claim that speech will soon be outdated. Cordeiro, founder of the organization’s Venezuela chapter, foresees spoken word being replaced by brain-to-brain Read More...