Health

This Green Prophet Hospitalized from Cairo’s Air Pollution

Joseph's lungs didn't like the return to polluted Cairo. It caused a dangerous bout of asthma. Returning to the city I have lived for more...

10 Weird and Wonderful Uses for Olive Oil

Humans have been plucking the fruit off olive trees for over 10,000 years, so it's no surprise we've found creative ways to use olives...

Dubai’s Bikram Yoga Turns Up the Heat, One Posture at a Time

A 90-minute yoga class in the great outdoors?  Piece of cake, some yogis will say.  But with Bikram yoga, a form created by Calcutta-born...

Intermittent Fasting for Fat Loss and Optimal Health an Old Prophecy?

Eat like a Paleo man? A pair of new medical books claim that a continual routine of restricted eating results in fat loss, increased...

Quinoa and its dirty secret to local societies

Quinoa is a healthy superfood filling up kitchen cupboards of ethical and vegetarian eaters, but quinoa comes at a high price for those in...

Fecal Transplant “Crapsule” Kills Super Bugs Better Than Antibiotics

New Nature study research shows that fatal first world, hospital-born diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile can be treated with donor feces.  It's exactly what it sounds like. Transferring feces...

Post Mubarak Egypt Struggles to Supply Wheat to Hungry Country

Taking irrigated water from the Nile, the Toshka pumping station in upper Egypt was supposed to help combat encroaching desert Political tension in Egypt in...

Go On A Spicy “Date” With This Health Drink

Of my most prized possessions is a new blender I recently purchased, the Vitamix.  Mine is a model called the TurboBlend VS.  The Vitamix...

A Farmer’s Market in Dead Dry Qatar

It's strange that a farmer's market should make news, but when it's in Qatar, one of the driest and least food secure nations on...

Wheat Berry Pudding Recipe

This traditional Iranian, or Persian, pudding makes a great winter breakfast or a satisfying dessert. Eating sustainably connotes regional foods that are available locally and...

Fight Crime By Getting the Lead Out

Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Myanmar and Yemen are still using leaded gasoline and many others have lead contaminated plumbing, soil, paint and household products. How...

Parrots Die After Exposure to Fumes from Non Stick Cook Ware

This grey Congo parrot could be at risk if exposed to  cooking fumes from PTFE coated cookware Issues surrounding the safety of ceramic and other...

Aussie trumps big tobacco

Government scored a massive win over the tobacco industry in 2012 when the Australian High Court ruled in favor of plain packaging for cigarettes, making this the first country to require all tobacco products to be sold in plain, standardized packaging.

WHO: Global Fertility Rates Mostly Holding Steady (Middle East exception)

Worldwide close to 50 million couples are unable to conceive after five years of trying, states a recent report. A recent World Health Organization report...

Globally, Obesity is Now Deadlier Than Hunger

Need incentive to eat healthier?  Diabetes, stroke and heart disease, have become the dominant cause of death and disability worldwide. Obesity and its myriad complications...

Hot this week

Top 5 Free Data Recovery Software of All Time

There is an old rule around computers that most of us learn only after something goes wrong: the most valuable part of your laptop is rarely the laptop. It is your stuff and all the data you accumulated along the way: the photographs, documents, unfinished work and years of digital debris stored inside it.

Food system’s biggest waste may be the farmers we don’t see: Hugh Locke’s new book

Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation by Hugh Locke is published by George Ronald in September 2026.

Artists warm up former Cold War radio headquarters in Berlin as PEOPLE Festival embraces collaboration and spontaneity

PEOPLE Festival returns to Berlin’s Funkhaus this October, bringing 180 musicians together for a week of collaboration, improvisation and more than 200 one-off performances.

Take your secrets and Bitcoin password offline in this code stitching workshop

Sophie Nadel turns data into something tactile, using embroidery and textiles to explore how we store, hide and understand information.

6 Ways Teletherapy Can Reduce Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Care

Teletherapy can make mental health care easier to access by reducing travel, scheduling and location barriers. Here are six ways virtual therapy can help people connect with professional support more easily.

Topics

Top 5 Free Data Recovery Software of All Time

There is an old rule around computers that most of us learn only after something goes wrong: the most valuable part of your laptop is rarely the laptop. It is your stuff and all the data you accumulated along the way: the photographs, documents, unfinished work and years of digital debris stored inside it.

Food system’s biggest waste may be the farmers we don’t see: Hugh Locke’s new book

Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation by Hugh Locke is published by George Ronald in September 2026.

Artists warm up former Cold War radio headquarters in Berlin as PEOPLE Festival embraces collaboration and spontaneity

PEOPLE Festival returns to Berlin’s Funkhaus this October, bringing 180 musicians together for a week of collaboration, improvisation and more than 200 one-off performances.

Take your secrets and Bitcoin password offline in this code stitching workshop

Sophie Nadel turns data into something tactile, using embroidery and textiles to explore how we store, hide and understand information.

6 Ways Teletherapy Can Reduce Barriers to Accessing Mental Health Care

Teletherapy can make mental health care easier to access by reducing travel, scheduling and location barriers. Here are six ways virtual therapy can help people connect with professional support more easily.

Can You Work Closer to Home? What to Check Before Choosing a Shared Workspace

A coworking space within walking distance can cut commuting time and give you a reliable place to work, but distance alone does not make it useful. Test the internet, noise, privacy, desk setup, environmental claims and real cost before committing to a membership.

Yazan Al Homsi on Aduro and Rocket Doctor: What Small-Cap Scale-Up Actually Takes

Yazan Al Homsi looks at two very different bets — Aduro Clean Technologies and Rocket Doctor — to show what investors should watch as small-cap companies attempt to move from promising technology to commercial scale.

Breast Mesh Reconstruction Problems: Signs Patients May Notice

Breast reconstruction can be an important part of recovery, but persistent pain, infection, changes in breast shape or mesh movement deserve medical attention. Here are the warning signs patients should know after breast mesh surgery.
spot_img

Related Articles