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Sleep does more for your health than looks
A quick fix to a late night is grabbing a coffee on the way to work or picking up one of those few hour energy drinks. Consuming high levels of caffeine or taurine wakes you up and is just like getting a few more hours of sleep, right? Wrong. Studies have found that not getting enough sleep, 5 Read More...
Molding the economy: The Senate’s attempt to reshape immigration
The immigration bill passed by the Senate on June 24, 2013 will revolutionize current immigration laws while boosting the economy. The Senate’s immigration bill will increase the number of green cards issued annually from 1 million to 1.5 million, give illegal immigrants a 13 year path to legal Read More...
Brain Food
Turn on the television, open a magazine or listen to the radio, and in short order you will no doubt be exposed to an advertisement extolling the virtues of some newly discovered exotic fruit juice that has the highest antioxidant content on the face of the Earth. You may wonder—why all the Read More...
Rice paddy revolution
Bounthanh Nhanphatna sits in the shade under a gnarled tamarind tree. Her hands are calloused. In spite of this, she is so deft at weaving a bamboo-fiber basket that her movements are hard to follow. “Which sort I like to grow best? Hom Sang Thong!” Behind her, in a hollow, are the rice paddies Read More...
The use of oil
How do you propose to balance the exploitation of Ecuador’s natural resources with preservation of its amazing ecological diversity? Rafael Correa: “It is madness to say no to natural resources, which is what part of the left is proposing—no to oil, no to mining, no to gas, no to Read More...
Dear Roz
Dear Roz, How can I get my sister to realize that the guy she’s been dating for the last 10 years isn’t good enough for her? It’s clear as day to everyone except her. Thank you, Jake Dear Jake, Our lives unfold in the stories we tell. Can you see that in your narrative you have made your Read More...
The power of the people
Some change happens very quickly. Occasionally the thing that has been accepted for generations disappears very quickly. I’m too young to remember the women’s struggle to vote, but as I look back at the history of the vote, it seems that once it really began, it happened right away. I’m not Read More...
Searching for better health
In the Western world we live longer and are healthier than any of our ancestors. True or false? Aboriginal people living in indigenous cultures still hidden from the Western world are the healthiest people on the planet. True or false? Interestingly, both statements are true. We do live Read More...
Go Middle East
Food that’s good for you may be all the rage, but finding a healthy sandwich can be a challenge. “Healthy” often turns out to mean something closer to “less unhealthy.” Fancy cheese trumps cheap meat. Roast turkey beats fried chicken. Two limp lettuce leaves are better than none at all. Read More...
Designing for the developing world
On a table in an Amsterdam café lies a little black box no larger than a pack of cigarettes. It looks like an MP3 player; it has a wire connected to two earbuds. Fernando de Oliveira Gil, a 31-year-old computer engineering student from São Paulo, holds the device up to a blue Brazilian Read More...