Health

Soylent, a beige goop alternative to eating food?

A liquid formula that goes down easy and provides you enough nutrients for the day. Would you ever start eating soylent? Heeding my own advice...

MERS means ride camels with masks, and pass on the camel burger?

About 500 people have died from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) believed to be transmitted by camels. And now Saudi Arabia is issuing a...

Deadly MERS virus spreading fast out of Saudi Arabia, raising panic before Hajj

Deadly and debilitating viruses are no strangers to the Middle East; especially following the discovery of a SARS-like mystery virus in Saudi Arabia back...

Pomegranates and oranges take this cake! A recipe

Coming up on my fourth year of taste-testing my way through Jordan - where the seasonal foods of the Levant pack a triple punch of...

3-D technology gives birth to lab-grown vaginas

Dubious developments allow us to print 3-D guns, grow “hamburgers” in a petri dish, and design environmentally responsive haute couture. Now a new application of technology radically transforms the...

No plastics safe? Industry hides frightening evidence on BPA-free baby bottles

A new investigation by Mother Jones magazine revealed that chemicals used to replace controversial plastic additive bisphenol-A - commonly called BPA - may be...

Is your honey real or fake? Take the test to see if it’s 100% pure honey

Is your honey real or fake? Take the test

Daylight saving time linked to heart attacks

Losing a single hour of sleep when we switching over to daylight saving time raises the risk of heart attack the following Monday by...

Foraged wild greens and fatayer turnovers recipe

In the Galilee's Arab, Jewish, and Druze communities, life has a rural rhythm, slower than in big towns. You  can tell that people like...

The hazards of single serving coffee pods

Espresso machine single serving coffee pods - those fairly newfangled units of specialty grinds - let you be your own barrista.  Pop one in...

Roasted Romanesco broccoli pasta – the ultimate Recipe

It looks like aliens took over the broccoli patch, doesn't it?  Romanesco broccoli is a unique vegetable that looks like a cauliflower gone crazy...

Making your own organic butter at home is ridiculously easy

For Israelis, butter has mysteriously disappeared from being an open market product. We gather it's a mix of climate change and the fact that...

The anti-fat fatwa is not a joke for buffet lovers in Saudi Arabia

Saudi cleric Saleh al Fawzan has decided that all-you-can-eat buffets are against Sharia (Islamic) law, unappetizing news for Muslims devoted to bargain dining deals! Last...

Is fruit juice shortening your life?

Ah...a cold glass of orange juice, first thing in the morning. Gives you energy, vitamin C and zest to start the day. Right? Is...

Tel Aviv hosts first-for-world Vegan Congress, without the blood

Veganism has gone viral in Israel - the number of devotees doubling in the past two years!  With over 2% of the population off...

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Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

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Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.
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