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Toxic Teabag Tech Gets “Silken” Plastic Tea Bags in Hot Water

Health experts have long advocated drinking tea instead of coffee, and the Middle East is awash in both, but modern food technology is heating...

Early Summer Tomato Jam RECIPE

Summer's arrival brings out all kinds of fruit to simmer up into jam - including tomatoes. Tomatoes as jam? Yes, indeed, and delicious it is,...

Animal Welfare Disaster in Egypt Forces Australia to Suspend Live Exports

Live animal exports to Egypt from Australia have been suspended after Animals Australia - a leading animal rights organization who has exposed cruelty in...

Israel Arrests Ten 269life Animal Rights Activists, 300 Protest in Tel Aviv

As part of their campaign to make "the walls of slaughter houses transparent," a guerrila animal rights group in Israel recently scattered the heads...

Chickpea Farmers Wanted in America for Hummus Invasion: Move Over Tobacco!

As hummus, a staple of Middle Eastern cuisine, gains popularity among Americans seeking healthful snacks, tobacco farmers open their fields to chick peas and Pepsico undertakes...

Turkey Bans 26 Genetically Modified Organisms

While the United States is completely in bed with companies that manufacture genetically modified organisms (GMOs), countries in other parts of the world are...

Seeking The Ecological Market At Machane Yehuda in Jerusalem

Miriam sees Israel's most famous open-air market through new eyes. When I lived in Jerusalem, the Machane Yehuda shuk (market) was my grocery store. Vegetables,...

How Muslim Families Use Breastfeeding to Make Adopted Babies Their Own

Even if you didn't give birth to the baby, you can still feed it to make it "yours" in Muslim communities. Here's how.

Use heroin? Fund Terror

There are many ways to fund terror, and one way is by consuming opium or heroin

CupsTelAviv: All You Can Drink Coffee for Under $50 a Month

All you can drink coffee for $50 a month at CupsTelAviv.

French Scientists Suggest Women Should Stop Wearing Bras

Science puts a new view forward in the anti-brassiere argument.  Women have bound their breasts since antiquity, for modesty's sake or to conform to an...

Are Digital Diet Utensils A Forking Joke?

Eating too fast leads to poor digestion and poor weight control.  No brainer. But do we need a digital fork to help adhere to...

I Scream, You Scream: Iran Targets World Ice Cream Record

An Iranian confectioner packed five tons of ice cream into a a single container to scoop a new world record in desserts. When you've just...

Is Sugar Toxic?

Increasing evidence shows that sugar is a natural enemy to the body. "Don't you think I know how hard it is, honey/To get some "sugar"...

Lupini Beans, Traditional Middle-Eastern Snack Food RECIPE

Known as turmos in the Levant, lupine beans - poor folk's food - are a tasty Middle-Eastern snack in need of more recognition. Except in some...

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

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

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

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

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

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.

Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology.

Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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