TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
A new study has found that consuming high levels of fructose (from added sugars) harms a whopping 940 brain genes. This is a nutrigenomic study, a study in which researchers specifically study how food effects gene expression. These types of studies show us exactly how food effects the way our bodies operate and are critical in Read More…
It was recently reported that the Chicago Police Department has implemented a new Orwellian program that targets innocent citizens based on indicators that they might be a person who has the potential to carry out a crime. Similar to dystopian films like Minority Report, a complex computer algorithm will track and catalog every citizen in Read More…
A very large refugee camp in Greece, the Idomeni Camp on the border with Macedonia, is being evacuated this week. The migrants in the camp are being taken to specially designed facilities, and they must travel 50 miles south in order to get there. Riot police moved into the camp in order to begin evacuation, Read More…
Elijah Wood, the actor who played Frodo in Lord of the Rings, and someone who hardly needs an introduction, is currently sitting back in awe (with some likely anxiety) as he makes headlines this week for some seriously interesting claims. In an interview that was simply set to discuss an upcoming movie of Wood’s, a brief Read More…
This past weekend at the China Beijing International High-Tech Expo, China revealed an exciting new form of public transportation called the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB). With a loading capacity of some 1,200 passengers, the bus is designed to hover above cars to maximize road space. With China having notoriously bad traffic jams in such congested cities, Read More…
In 2007, more than a dozen of the world’s largest banks colluded to deliberately depress the rate at which they paid out on investments. This rate is known as the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), which is the average of interest rates estimated by each of the leading banks in London that it would be charged Read More…