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Thai Officials Close Bangkok Schools Due To Toxic Dust

Thai Officials Close Bangkok Schools Due To Toxic Dust

The Ministry of Education announced that due to high levels of air pollution that they are closing schools in Bangkok and surrounding provinces.  Private schools are not required to close but are recommended to do so for the health of ...
Sleep Deprivation and Your Heart

Sleep Deprivation and Your Heart

If you want to keep your heart healthy be sure to get enough sleep at night, about 6 to 8 hours if possible.  A study in Spain of 4,000 people showed that the less sleep or if your sleep is ...
Capitalism

Capitalism – Confronting and Constructing a Culture

By Evo Morales, President of Bolivia - Jan 24, 2013 Sisters, brothers: The world is being hit by a world-wide multiple crisis that is manifested in a climate, financial, food, institutional, cultural, ethical and spiritual crisis. This crisis indicates to ...

Thousands protest the killing of an anti-fascism activist by skinheads

Paris Leftist murdered: Thousands turned out to protest the killing of an anti-fascism activist by skinheads in Paris last week. Clement Meric, 19, was out shopping with friends when he exchanged words with the skinheads, who beat him to death ...
Do Dolphins Have Conversations

Do Dolphins Have Conversations?

A study in Russia has shown that dolphins while traveling through the ocean at incredible speeds, fighting with sharks still have the time to have a chat with each other.  Dolphins chat via sonar with other dolphins like having a ...
Human remains found in 2,100-year-old shipwreck

Human remains found in 2,100-year-old shipwreck

According to researchers the human remains found on an ancient shipwreck from 2100 years ago will shed some light on the past that was thought to be lost.  The researchers found human remains off the Greek Island of Antikythera in ...

The rise of ‘drunkorexia’

A scary new trend among college students combines starvation with binge drinking, says TheAtlantic.com. Researchers say “drunkorexia” now affects as many as one in four college students, who diet all day so that they can drink at night without gaining ...
Does Human Life Span Really Have a Limit

Does Human Life Span Really Have a Limit?

Scientists believe that human life may be longer than originally thought.  There might be a human alive today that will be able to live until the age of 150 because of advances in medicine and sanitation.  Back in 1900 people ...
Prison

Prison Sentences – Loosening The Shackles

Prison Sentences - Loosening The Shackles U.S. Prison Population The U.S. prison population is the highest in the world. A quarter of the world's inmates reside in U.S. prisons, despite being only 5% of the world population. Since the 1980's ...
Medications Could Make You Depressed

Medications Could Make You Depressed

Some of the medications that you are taking may be causing you to have depression.  About a third of adults taking medications may not be aware of this problem and consequences.  It may be a minor symptom in some, but ...