Homeless women need support, not pep talks | Mickey Z.

CC0 Public Domain Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 8, 2018 George Bernard Shaw (a very famous and successful white male who married into financial independence and later became legit wealthy thank ...

The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

Obesity rates keep rising for U.S. adults | Dennis Thompson

Photo: martin.mutch, flickr (CC BY 2.0)March 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Obesity rates have continued to climb significantly among American adults, but the same hasn't held true for children, a new govern ...

Western diet depletes artery-protecting immune cells | Dalia Gaddis and Catherine Hedrick

Cross section of an aorta from a mouse that was fed a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, which accelerates the build-up of plaque. The large red plaque on the inside of the aorta was labeled with oil b ...

Newborn babies who suffered stroke regain language function in opposite side of brain | Elissa L. Newport

Individual scans of two healthy controls and two individuals with a left-hemisphere (LH) perinatal stroke. The orange/yellow activation shows the normal language areas of the left hemisphere in healt ...

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols | Caroline Trippel, Daniel Lustig, Margaret Martonosi

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 11, 2018 (arXrv.org) -- The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerab ...

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- February 5, 2018 Feb. 5 Date under the New START Treaty by which the United States and Russia are to comply with the treaty's central limits on strategic arms (700 deployed interc ...

How to (really) Help Homeless Women | Mickey Z.

Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2018 For my entire adult life, I’ve tried to help homeless people. For years, I wrote for Street News -- a once-popular advocacy newspaper most ...

The Dream of a Perfect Diet | John Michael Greer

Jan. 31, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- I’d meant to spend the last couple of days writing an essay about the astral plane, because this is the fifth Wednesday of the month, and we’ve established an informa ...

Apple investors urge action to curb child gadget addiction | AP

Image by Jose Roberto Navas. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Jan. 8, 2018 (AP) -- Two major Apple investors have urged the iPhone maker to take action to curb growing smartphone addiction among children, highli ...

Hidden Genetic Variation Helps Drive Evolution | Mahul Chakraborty

First author Mahul Chakraborty looks through several specimens of fruit flies to identify new phenotypes. Credit: UCI Dec. 22, 2017 (Phys.org) -- Identifying complex mutations in the structure of an ...