You may be talking and I may be listening, but our brains look strikingly similar. That’s the conclusion of a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. After conducting brain scans of a woman telling a story off the cuff and then of 11 people listening to a recording …
A desert city in California claims it has dramatically cut crime by piping birdsong from the English hedgerows onto its streets. Mayor R Rex Parris, who commissioned the recordings from a Surrey-based sound consultant, claims the birdsong is calming the citizens of Lancaster by altering the chemicals in the brain. …
You’ve got to keep an eye on US regulatory agencies in the second half of December. That’s when watchdog journalists like me tend to take time off—and regulators like to sneak gifts to the industries they’re supposed to be regulating. This year, I was alert enough to detect this gift …
PPP’s 3rd annual TV news trust poll (2011 version here, 2010 version here) finds that Fox News tops the list for both the source Americans trust the most and the one they trust the least. Fox is the most trusted TV news source for 34% of voters, followed by PBS at 17%, CNN at …
Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. Researchers found that fluoride consumption directly stimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlated with the #1 killer. Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, …
New research could mean millions of older women can skip frequent screening tests for osteoporosis: If an initial bone scan shows no big problems, many can safely wait 15 years to have another one, the study suggests. Government advisers and leading doctor groups urge osteoporosis screening, but no one has …
A link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer has been suggested by researchers in Sweden. They said eating an extra 50g of processed meat, approximately one sausage, every day would increase a person’s risk by 19%. But the chance of developing the rare cancer …
One in five adults in the United States, or nearly 50 million people, suffered mental illnesses in 2010, with women and young adults suffering disproportionately, a government report released on Thursday found. The survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found women were more likely than men …
I spent Friday morning sitting on a wooden bench in a fourth-floor courtroom in the New York Criminal Court in Manhattan. I was waiting to be sentenced for “disturbing the peace” and “refusing to obey a lawful order” during an Occupy demonstration in front of Goldman Sachs in November. Those …
Getting healthy is a top New Year’s resolution. But keeping your brain healthy as you age also should be a top priority. Dr. Wes Ashford, an Alzheimer’s Disease expert and creator of the consumer memory screening test MemTrax, offers these 10 tips to on keeping your brain healthy: – EXERCISE …
Guest: David Swanson Topic: Obama’s State of the Union Lies Daivd Swanson of WarisaCrime.org discuss President Obama’s Tuesday State of the Union address and highlights the multiple lies and flip flops on policy, and the repeated broken promises to the American people. Download this episode (right click and save) Podcast: …
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Why The Right Hates Hollywood: The 2012 Progressive Movie Awards Since Newt hates it, that proves Hollywood is doing something right. While the Oscar nomintations are freshly out, bolder films are also recognized by the un-Oscars: the annual Progressive Movie Awards. The nominations are just out and while many of …
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Political Ecology Political ecology, revolutionary events, and the trouble with utopia: a talk with J.P. Harpignies, author of Political Ecosystems and Delusions of Normality. Download this episode (right click and save) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.2MB) | Embed
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Getting Off The Big Wheel Alan Watts, Meditation, Buddhism, Identity problems and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim– a story about adventure, religion and love. Download this episode (right click and save) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (13.3MB) | Embed
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Guest: Cullen Murphy Cullen Murphy is the editor at large for Vanity Fair magazine, and the former managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Some may remember the comic strip Prince Valiant—a series Cullen worked on with his father. An expert scholar in the classics and medieval history, Cullen is …
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