Fitness Blog

Species under threat: Honey, who shrunk the bee population? (01 March 2007, The Independent) Across America, millions of honey bees are abandoning their hives and flying off to die, leaving beekeepers facing ruin and US agriculture under threat. And to date, no one knows why. It has echoes of a murder mystery in polite society. There could hardly be a more sedate and unruffled world than

Bush Administration Approves Pesticide Testing on Orphans & Mentally Handicapped Children [NOTE: This is a follow-up to an earlier story, Bush's Fascist Government Using Poor Children in Toxic Chemical Tests, which caused the Bush regime to modify its plans to only test toxins on orphans and mentally challenged children.] (Organic Consumers Association, November 16, 2005) Public comments are

Rumsfeld To Profit from Bird Flu Hoax (Dr. Mercola, mercola.com) Finally, the pieces of the puzzle start to add up. Not long ago, President Bush sought to instill panic in this country by telling us a minimum of 200,000 people will die from the avian flu pandemic, but it could be as bad as 2 million deaths in this country alone. . . . This hoax is then used to justify the immediate purchase of 80

Meditation Improves Brain Development Study Shows (LiveScience Staff, 11 November 2005) Meditation alters brain patterns in ways that are likely permanent, scientists have known. But a new study shows key parts of the brain actually get thicker through the practice. . . . Brain imaging of regular working folks who meditate regularly revealed increased thickness in cortical regions related to

Evolution suffers setback in Kansas, citizens vote to devolve (BBC NEWS, 09 November 2005) Public schools in the US state of Kansas are to be given new science standards that cast doubt on evolution. . . . Proponents of the change argue they are trying to expose students to legitimate scientific questions about evolution. . . . The Kansas decision came as voters in Pennsylvania replaced all