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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...

Make Kombucha Tea At Home

For centuries, kombucha lovers have been drinking the fizzy tea beverage and claiming amazing health benefits from it. Some people are now making hard...

Bill Gates Seeks Next Generation Condom

Build a Better Rubber, They will Come? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will grant $100k to the inventor of the next generation condom. Condoms...

Direct Seeding Helps Moroccan Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

Farming is risky business in Morocco, where a 30 percent drop in precipitation since 1970 makes steady, predictable annual crop yields virtually impossible. So...

Sustainable Table Film Shows What’s On Your Plate

Miriam has been covering a series of sustainable meal recipes from the Middle East region, from countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iran to...

7 Steps to Wean Yourself From Processed Food

A new book holds your hand and walks you through the stuff you already sort of know: 7 simple steps to bring you back...

Iranian Snipers Take Aim at Tehran’s Giant Mutant Rats

It sounds like a sci-fi B movie, but the problem is real: Super-sized rats infesting Tehran are so huge that a special team of...

Traditional Passover Matzah Balls Recipe

Matzah balls, the only Eastern European food that crossed over to Sephardic cuisine. While Ashkenazic Jews have enthusiastically adopted the spicy foods of Israeli's Sephardic...

Anti-Tobacco Images Fail to Sway Jordanian Smokers

If new anti-smoking images slapped on Jordan's smokes don't help puffers kick the habit, maybe Jordan should look Down Under for greater motivation: Beginning this...

Fungi Could Clean Pollution, Give Fuel and Food: Egypt Research

Ahmed Abdel Azim and his team at Suez Canal University advance research in mycology (fungi) Its not the first time that Green Prophet covers stories...

Make Meat Your Religion

I grew up eating horsemeat. It was considered a treat –– a Dutch delicacy. Maybe once every four or five months my dad would...

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Sports equipment is entering the bioplastics era

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NEOM’s The Line is delayed as Saudi mirage hits reality

Without blinking indeed: Saudi Arabia has reportedly delayed major work on The Line,  the planned 170-kilometer mirrored city slicing through the desert, until after 2030. Tourism projects along the Red Sea are being pushed back, and Trojena, the fantasy ski resort in the mountains fueled with artificial snow, is also effectively frozen.

Park Slope food coop boycotts “Gay Tahini” already boycotted by Muslims in Israel

The tragedy is that this kind of activism rarely builds peace. It builds tribes instead of humanity. It rewards outrage over dialogue. Once an enlightenment group starts deciding which nationalities are acceptable to boycott publicly, history suggests the line rarely stops where activists think it will.

What the small birds teach

Looking back on the pain and heartbreak I've experienced in life, the raven might be seen as an agent of destruction or might be seen as an agent of change; it turned out to be the latter, leading to greater renewal.
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