To borrow a quote from DKG: If you look at the soil under a microscope, every single day is Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
And the point this film is trying to make is that modern agriculture takes an awful lot for-granted and engages in several practices that hurt the foundations that all of our food is built upon.
–From the pesticides some GMO seeds need to survive, to abandoned crop-rotation methods…
Gastric Shutdown: You Might Want To Avoid That Imported Seafood For A Little While Longer
Though the end to the government-shutdown is barely past a week old, count on the backlog of food inspections to last abit longer than the original 2+ week duration.
And to that end, you might want to reacquaint yourselves with BuzzFeed’s breakdown+list down at the links for some good reminders on how to stay safe abit longer.
PS: It might also be good to check back in with EWG’s Dirty Dozen, too…
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is Malaria, Because:Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock Syphilis Voldemort Polio
Ok, so Cracked ran this awesomely-gruesome post about 5 Strange Medical Therapies
-And the joys of bats**t-insanity, which also happens to cure Syphilis, because apparently Malaria is much the same as Omar from “The Wire”.
Well Look Out Omar! There’s a new strange-way-of-curing-disease player in-town. And his name?
Polio. -Yes, as in: “Oops, I am now almost totally paralyzed!” -That Polio.
SO: Our story begins with this one guy who got very very sick in an oddly-similar way…
Read More >Brain Borked? Fix It With Gel! -Not That Kind, Snooki
+And BTW, While you’re stuck waiting for those 3-D Printed replacement Brain Parts from before…
Just wiggle on down to So-Car and hit up Dr. Ning Zhang at Clemson; -whose invention should be coming into the mainstream Any Day Now!
(it was supposed to be Late 2012)
She’ll check out the severity of your Pro-Wrestling-Ladder-Fall-Concussion, ice your head, inject some Stem-CEllmer’s Glue in there and…
I For One Do Not Welcome Our New 3-D-Printed Brain Overlords In Jars
“I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.”*
Imagine if you had to learn how to be an Architect or Civil-Engineer, but you weren’t allowed 2x4s, wood, bricks, cement, steel I-beams, bolts, nails, mud, hay, cow-butts; -nothing in the way of building-supplies,
And all you were allowed to do was take apart existing skyscrapers, experiment, and sketch?
Well, that phase in Brain-Science is over…
Read More >Google To Tackle Death With Calico. -Your Move, Death…
As much as I was dismayed at Google Health shutting down, I am equally excited at Google Calico launching.
-Which is apparently so badass, that the former CEO of Genentech and current Chairman of Apple, yes -that- Apple, is going to run it,
And puts Curing Cancer on the list of its Easy goals; -Hard ones like serious life-extension to follow.
KurzweilAI?, 2045 Project? -You are all toast…
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Dating Interviews Just Got A Whole Lot Tougher: Turns Out Testicle-Size Is Important
Normally, when a girl jams her hand down your pants, it would seem the interview phase of the date is then over and it’s now time to get down to Austin Powers.
However, following the results of a new study, this could just turn out to be Phase 2.5 of the application procedure.
According to this new work by Emory University, smaller gonad-size…
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