Since I started this post with a title including the word “workout,” I just want to make a clarification — yoga is not exercise. To me, yoga is a holistic practice that involves your body, breath, and mind. That said, that doesn’t mean that it can’t meet all of your exercise needs…
A few weeks ago, […]

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Since I started this post with a title including the word “workout,” I just want to make a clarification — yoga is not exercise. To me, yoga is a holistic practice that involves your body, breath, and mind. That said, that doesn’t mean that it can’t meet all of your exercise needs…
A few weeks ago, […]

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Just as the need to save the world’s forests for climate protection is becoming widely recognised, we have discovered that major logging companies - operating in the Congo basin - are increasingly destroying one of the most ecologically important forest areas on the planet while dodging taxes and robbing impoverished Congolese people of revenue.     Full […]

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After successful campaigns in New Zealand and the Philippines, the Rainbow Warrior spent 21 days in Thailand as part of the “Quit Coal, Lead the Energy [R]evolution Tour” promoting solutions to climate change. The tour included human banners, port blockades and a visit to the Ministry of Energy.     Full Story…

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After months of probable false leads and demonstration of embarrassing ineptitude, the Bush FDA may have finally come to a helpful conclusion regarding the origin of a salmonella outbreak that has harmed more citizens within the borders of the United States than, say, the large number of Islamic terrorist attacks that have not happened over […]

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Every once in a while I like to do a piece on how real science works. The New England Journal of Medicine was kind enough to serve up a nice example for us this week.
Real science is hard. It’s time-consuming, expensive, and leads down many blind alleys. That’s one of the reasons pseudoscience is so […]

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Greenpeace Australia activists painted coal ships waiting in a queue at Hay Point port in Queensland with messages saying “Stop coal expansion”, “Barrier Reef Gone”, “Ice caps gone” and “Rudd exporting CO2″.     Full Story…

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After successful campaigns in New Zealand and the Philippines, the Rainbow Warrior spent 21 days in Thailand as part of the “Quit Coal, Lead the Energy [R]evolution Tour” promoting solutions to climate change. The tour included human banners, port blockades and a visit to the Ministry of Energy.     Full Story…

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This is a nice little case report from the European Journal
of Psychiatry.  The translation is a little rough,
but the information is good.

Neuroleptic
malignant syndrome: Possible relationship between Neuroleptic Treatment
And Smoking Cessation Mª José Martín Vázquez PhD MPsych*, Teresa Jimeno
Beltrán MD** Eur. J. Psychiat. v.21 n.4  Zaragoza
oct.-dic. 2007

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I just can’t escape them. Even when I want to, even when I’d like to take a break, they’re there.
The anti-vaccine nutcases.
This time around, they showed up at, of all places, Netroots Nation, where the deceptively named National Vaccine Information Center, an explicitly antivaccination group that spreads nothing but lies, set up a booth. Fortunately, […]

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