Source: TED-Ed March , 2021 No matter how we make electricity, it takes up space. Coal requires mines, and plants to convert it into electricity. Nuclear power takes uranium mines, facilities to refine it, a reactor, and a place to store the spent fuel safely. Renewable energy needs wind turbines [Read more…]
Source: Oncolink Undergoing chemotherapy can have a two-fold effect on the body. While it can slow or stop the cancer, it can also cause unintended consequences such as neuropathy of limbs. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN) is a sensory peripheral neuropathy that can affect one or both hands or feet and [Read more…]
Source: Global News Staying at least two metres apart from others while indoors has virtually no effect on the risk of exposure to COVID-19, a new study out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says. The study, released online ahead of its publication in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS on Tuesday, [Read more…]
Source: Peace From Panic Back in December 2018, I wrote an article for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) that described my experiences with panic disorder, including derealization and depersonalization. You can read it here on the NAMI blog. Since it published, I’ve received dozens of emails asking how I [Read more…]
Source: Debunking Denialism There is currently a tsunami of misinformation out there about how Sweden handled the coronavirus pandemic. Sweden did not opt to use a brief hard lockdown like many other countries, but instead put into place a robust set of long-term restrictions that combined both legal bans and [Read more…]
Source: Debunking Denialism Yet another example of celebrities peddling dangerous medical-scientific misinformation as if they had any expertise at all to do so. Madonna is a singer. An entertainer. As far as I know, she has absolutely no training or education in medicine or science, not has she demonstrated any [Read more…]
Source: Scientific American Note: The experimental treatments described in this article use minimal doses of psychedelic drugs under medical supervision. This is not meant to recommend unsupervised recreational use of these substances to treat mental health conditions. ~ admin The treatments of the future may arise from a long-stigmatized class [Read more…]
Source: DavidSuzuki.org Forests provide habitat for numerous life forms, help regulate hydrologic and climate cycles, filter water, prevent flooding, absorb climate-altering carbon and even provide hedges against pandemics. Anyone who’s read the book by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, , or Peter Wohlleben’s , knows there’s a big difference between [Read more…]
Source: DavidSuzuki.org In Australia, one program is aimed at helping the greater bilby, a threatened marsupial, learn to avoid predation by interlopers in their ecoregion — feral cats and foxes introduced by British colonizers. As human activity continues to heat the planet and destroy wildlife habitat, plants and animals are [Read more…]
Pills and the planet: Environmentally-friendly steps for your medicine cabinet by Wynne Armand, MD, Harvard Health Blog April 22, 2021 Most people might not guess that pills (or creams, patches, and inhalers, for that matter) have a big impact on the environment — but they do. Climate change is leading [Read more…]
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