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A new study of insect numbers across the globe says that declining insect numbers are threatening a ‘collapse of nature’ unless something is done to address the issue. Over the next few decades, up to 40% of the world’s insect species could…
This week, an Irish TD (member of parliament) claimed vegans had ‘never worked a day in their lives’. The bizarre and idiotic rant isn’t worth arguing against but it does raise some critical issues that Ireland needs to address before we get…
Walking through a forest is enough to evoke a sense of calm in most people. It’s a primitive feeling, one that has evolved over thousands of years and been handed down from gene pool to gene pool. That calmness, or de-stressing that…
When studying or reading about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) it can appear at first glance to be very functional – this point for that illness and that meridian for this organ or function. Too often, it can be easy to lose sight…
Sometimes you have to go full circle to really know where you started. It seems a bit that way with our understanding of how our bodies work and the approach we take to our health and medicine. Modern western healthcare is based…
Scientists in Spain have found that cooked tomatoes boost the level of healthy bacteria in the gut and have a better probiotic effect rather than when eaten raw. The antioxidant lycopene is more readily available when the tomatoes are cooked and it…
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have used prosthetic limbs and virtual reality technology to ‘trick’ amputees into feeling life-like sensations and feelings. The concept of phantom limbs has long been around, with some amputees claiming to feel sensations or…
A shop in the Phillipines has ‘captured’ a ghost walking through traffic on its CCTV. The footage, recorded in June (2018), show the ghost seemingly oblivious to oncoming traffic as it walks across the road. Locals now fear that a ghost is…
The depths to which Traditional Chinese Medicine can go seem to have no end – It is a bottomless pit of interdependency, a roundabout which doesn’t really have a start or an end. Trying to pinpoint an exact position in TCM is…
A former school groundkeeper, Dewayne Johnson, has been awarded $289 million in damages against Monsanto, after suing the pesticide manufacturer in a Californian Court. Jurors agreed that Monsanto’s product, Roundup, had contributed to Johnson’s cancer in what was the first trial against…
