4 de Abril, 2008

A Community Garden [Let's Have Nexus 6]

Categorized under Ciencia , Corazón , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Guerra , Planeta , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: Environment, Format, Hope, Let's Have Nexus, misogyny, Power to the People, racism, The White Lens

AND THE ANSWER for the human race and our oldest friend, the Planet Earth, is the re-centering the collective emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health of human beings—no, we must take it further, to plant/environmental and animal (including human) health rather than this gross heirarchical defect that takes the...

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10 de Marzo, 2008

Sickle Cell Disease Rising Among Latinos

Categorized under Ciencia , Raza | Tags: Latino, Public Health

WHAT IS OFTEN thought of as a disease limited to the African American population is now becoming increasingly more prevalent among Latinos. The painful blood disorder called sickle-cell disease is striking an increasing number of Latino people in Colorado, according to University of Colorado researchers. The trend in the disease...

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25 de Enero, 2008

Turning to Sawdust From the Top Down

Categorized under Ciencia , Hipnotismo , Medios , Once de Septiembre | Tags: hype, September 11

I LOVE IT when scientists discuss the events of 9/11. Though I had to smile at part of the intro to Pt II: remember when we were outraged when it first became clear that Saddam didn't actually have any connection to 9/11? Wow. It makes you long for innocence....

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16 de Diciembre, 2007

Aurora Dairy Sucks Teat of Greed

Categorized under Ciencia , Planeta | Tags: Aurora Dairy, Corporations, Fraud, Greed, Health, Organic Food, Public Health

Some of the nation's largest retailers and grocery chains sold milk labeled "organic" that was not truly organic, recently filed lawsuits allege. The federal complaints focus on the sale of milk from Boulder, Colo.-based Aurora Organic Dairy, which recently agreed to change its practices after the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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15 de Diciembre, 2007

Merck Issues Vaccination Recall

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: Merck, Public Health, Vaccinations

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

The Story of Stuff

Categorized under Acción , Artivism , Ciencia , Planeta | Tags: Annie Leonard, Consumption, Environment, Film, Mother Nature, Outsourcing, Pollution

THIS 20 MINUTE SHORT is fantastic. It will make you cry, it will make you sick, well, hell. It's just a great time. For the whole familia. Seriosly, important message and education on the many hidden costs of material consumption, delivered by an eco-hero in a fun, dreadful, animated...

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28 de Noviembre, 2007

Dirty Boys

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags:

I'M JUST GONNA let ya know right away that I am of that percentage of men who DO wash their hands after using the bathroom, whether it be home or away. Now it's entirely possible I'll eat something that falls on my own floor, drink champagne out of your ex-wife's...

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27 de Noviembre, 2007

Hurricane of HIV

Categorized under Ciencia , Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: activism, Blacks, Bob Marley, Change, HIV, Nicole Styles, Power to the People, Public Health, Washington DC

AND WILL THEY SAY nobody could have foreseen the weakness of the levees? For the first time, Washington D.C. has collected data on H.I.V. and found that in the nation's capital, the "modern epidemic"—as the Washington Post calls it—is now primarily one affecting blacks. The numbers most starkly illustrate...

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18 de Noviembre, 2007

Adenovirus 14

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: Adenovirus 14, Public Health

WE'RE BEING WARNED of a virus. Spreads like the common cold, but kills like a fatal disease. The article stresses (twice in two paragraphs and rather redundantly) the fact that this time it's not just the elderly and the young who should be scared; it's everyone. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -...

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17 de Noviembre, 2007

The Needle or the Cell?

Categorized under Ciencia , Gobierno , Violencia | Tags: Police State, Vaccinations

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Hundreds of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. The get-tough policy in the Washington suburbs of...

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7 de Octubre, 2007

The Meat of the Problem

Categorized under Ciencia , Planeta | Tags: Comida

MORE BEEF BAD NEWS: Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Cargill Inc., the largest U.S. agricultural company, recalled 844,812 pounds of ground beef patties over E. coli fears, days after a similar move felled the nation's biggest maker of frozen hamburgers. Closely held Cargill sold the frozen patties that might contain...

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8 de Septiembre, 2007

We'll Miss You, E. Coli and I.

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: Alan Weisman, YouTube

REMEMBER THIS VIDEO? Some of you found the idea peaceful to contemplate, others found it unsettling. Seemed right to post the interview Jon Stewart did with the man who wrote the book. So you can be soothed...or distraught, some more....

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31 de Agosto, 2007

Don't Scare Them Into Health, Fool Them Into Consumerism.

Categorized under Ciencia , Closing in on Bush , Parenting | Tags: Breastfeeding, bush

In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of insulin syringes and asthma inhalers...

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26 de Agosto, 2007

Una luz dentro de la Sombra

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: Eclipse, Mother Nature, Space

EARLY TUESDAY there will be a full lunar eclipse. Tuesday morning, Aug. 28 brings us the second total lunar eclipse of 2007. Those living in the Western Hemisphere and eastern Asia will be able to partake in at least some of this sky show. The very best viewing region...

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19 de Agosto, 2007

One Peaceful Planet

Categorized under Ciencia , Planeta | Tags: Space

I GET MORE EXCITED by the thought of living not in fear of terrorists, but by the thought of a People who don't make decisions based on terror but on hope....

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10 de Agosto, 2007

The Big One...Any Moment Now...

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: Califas, San Andreas Fault, The Big Earthquake

THEY'RE DIGGING THIS GEM out again. It even makes me nostalgic to worry about this earthquake. This fear—that Califas will be devastated by the Big One that will tear her apart by the San Andreas Fault—was actually scrawled into my baby book in my mother's handwriting. That, along with...

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28 de Julio, 2007

A Grave Habit

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: Cigarettes, Environment, Greed, Mota, Toxins

ON THE OTHER HAND, cigarettes are very legal and available all over the country. Don't get me wrong: I think you and I should have the right to smoke what we want. Mota, tobacco, cloves, pipes; hell, I support your right to smolder if you want. To catch fire and...

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17 de Mayo, 2007

Truth Conspires to Start Tiny Fires

Categorized under Ciencia , Historia , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: JFK

OH, HELL just when those grassy knoll people started getting quiet. This is only going to stir things up. In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to...

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7 de Mayo, 2007

Oaxaca Earthquake

Categorized under Ciencia , Historia , Oaxaca | Tags: Earthquake, Oaxaca

OAXACA gets shaken up by a 5.1 earthquake. Sounds like it was mild, but of course any earthquake news in Mexico brings up some bad memories....

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5 de Mayo, 2007

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

Categorized under Ciencia , Raza , Resistencia , día festivo | Tags: Cinco de Mayo

HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO! Happy Corona day! Happy Ragtag Guerrillas Cream the Imperialist Invader Day! ¡Feliz La Victoria de la Batalla de Pueblo Dia! Cinco de Mayo celebrates the spirit of independence, although of course it is not Mexico's Independence day. (Amigo XP has a good historical rundown.) Many...

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30 de Abril, 2007

The Bee at the Heart of the World

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: Bees

YESTERDAY, I posted on bees. Of course they have been on my mind lately because of the widespread phenomenon that is being called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). If you haven't read about it, there is a mysterious dying out of bees taking place all over North America, and concentrated...

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29 de Abril, 2007

966 Bees in the Shade

Categorized under Ciencia , Stories | Tags: Bees

WHOA. Maybe colonies of bees move around this time of year, and I'm unfamiliar with the whole idea. But I just had quite an exciting moment. I remember when I was about 10, and there was all this talk of Killer Bees from Africa that might land on our...

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27 de Marzo, 2007

Nurturing the Mutant Cell

Categorized under Ciencia , Corazón | Tags:

TALKING POINTS MEMO takes a moment to ponder cancer and our inability to affect its occurrences. It's been a sobering several days, with Snow's cancer recurrence and that of Elizabeth Edwards. It's a reminder that with all our technology, the best medical care available, which I'm sure both of...

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22 de Marzo, 2007

Elizabeth Edwards' Cancer Returns

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags: celebrities

IT MADE ME VERY SAD to read the news about the return of Elizabeth Edwards' cancer. I don't know that su esposo is my first choice right now for President, but separately, I have known enough women, and sadly, enough women touched by this that it personally moves me...

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15 de Marzo, 2007

Curse of the Haunted Enzyme

Categorized under Ciencia | Tags:

OKAY, this has nothing to do with anything I normally take time to write about. But this woman's story sounds so horribly painful and lonely and rare that I had to draw attention to it in case anyone you know has gone through it and desperately seeks an answer. The...

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11 de Septiembre, 2006

Trabajadores, Traitors, and Terminators

Categorized under Ciencia , Corazón , Globalización , Historia | Tags: Farming, Hope, Oaxaca, Power to the People

IT IS A HARD TASK GIVEN YOU; a troublesome puzzle created around your birth. It is not easy to come to realize, eventually, that the world you were born into is a sickened one, a mutated cell riddled with the malaise of Man's spiritual failures. It is a huge task,...

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