As I spend time surrounded by family I am once again struck by how important being part of a community is (for juice, love, support, and a sense of oneness). There’s nothing like resting in the support of loved ones, like-minded people, those with a common bond. If you’re desiring to join a yoga community […]

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As I spend time surrounded by family I am once again struck by how important being part of a community is (for juice, love, support, and a sense of oneness). There’s nothing like resting in the support of loved ones, like-minded people, those with a common bond. If you’re desiring to join a yoga community […]

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The stereotype of solar power is silicon photovoltaics or the passive solar hot water heaters. But what if we could grow a biological material that converts sunlight into electrical energy? The biological life on this planet has had a billion or more years of life on this planet, all the time relying on […]

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Some people think the problems of ‘peak oil’ and ‘climate change’ are in conflict with one another. If we run out of oil then that means, whew, we’ll dodge the climate change problem, right? Uh… What about the coal?

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Dagmar Herzog, speaking at the City University of New York, discusses the Religious Right’s response to such new-millennium unbearables and unmanageables as Viagra and Internet pornography, including the Bush mandate that states receiving federal sex-education money teach that sex outside of marriage and depression go hand in hand.
This video, featuring Amy Richards and Dan Savage […]

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Does sugar intake cause hyperactivity in children?
Do suicides increase over the holidays?
Are poinsettias dangerously toxic?
Do people lose significant amounts of heat through their heads?
Does eating a higher fraction of your calories at night lead to weight gain?
Are there really any “cures” for a hangover?
As you may have guessed from the title of this post, Rachel […]

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Who says biofuels have to be a diversion of food crops? Biological life is very flexible and I believe it’s possible for biologists to genetically engineer a biological life form which can directly produce massive quantities of liquid fuel. Maybe. In any case… A Montana State University professor has found a fungus […]

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