Put mouthwash in your mouth? Some of the ingredients you don't even want to put down your drain.Nothing tells you what you need to know about government wishful thinking than efforts to stick flouride in everything. Sure, it fights cavities but it is also linked to cancer and neurological diseases. You'd best stay away from it until the science is more clear.Want a simple recipe for mouthwash that won't kill fish due to alcohol content or give you brain damage?Mouthwash Recipe:Warm waterBaking soda or sea saltA drop of peppermintReally, that's it.
French women are quite giving - after all, they let their husbands have a girlfriend, a mistress and a whore. It only makes sense that generous nature would translate into parenting as well. Even if that sometimes means a laissez faire approach to childrearing.Former Wall Street Journal reporter and current Paris ex-pat Pamela Druckerman was intrigued by the manners of French children - in a country famous for being rude - so she set out to study what they were doing and then wrote a book on it. It's not an Asian "tiger mom" approach, by any means, but Druckerman says it is less coddling than the American way.
Dr. Jon Cowan, the CEO of Peak Achievement Training, says they have found the “Cupid brainwave” – what they call Neureka! brainwaves that are related to feelings of love, happiness and gratitude. He presented his experimental findings at recent meetings of the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research, and at the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Their claim: People who enhance these feelings have stronger Neureka! brainwave patterns.Article: In Time For Valentine’s Day: A Science Way To Measure Love
A social psychologist who doesn't spend his days finding ways to rationalize being progressive? University of Virginia Prof. Jonathan Haidt certainly was a partisan liberal, he says, but researching John Kerry's failure to connect with voters in 2004 made him see things a little different, and now he is a moderate - which is still right wing in the social sciences, so a bold step not without risk.
I hope The Atlantic is enjoying its page views - pseudoscience sells and they are pushing it out there. After an ill-fated no-science-allowed cultural diatribe (by a food critic, no less) against genetically modified foods graced its pages they have clearly seen the dollar signs - so they want to say maybe cell phones don't cause cancer but (*PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE ALERT*) maybe they do.
If you want cool stuff that no one else will believe, look to Russia.(1) It isn't just the home of rampant piracy and corruption (and trademark infringement, in the case of their ridiculous theft of "Science 2.0" for a terrible television show) it is also the place to find kooky confirmation of odd beliefs. Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences says he analyzed photographs from the Venus mission made by a Soviet landing probe, Venus-13, in 1982 and found...aliens. Well, he found a black dot that may have not been the same as another black dot.
A new District of Columbia (that's Washington, D.C. to those of you outside the Beltway) law is wonderfully progressive regarding the rights of rats. Since they love to overregulate stuff, it now dictates how pest control people - exterminators - can deal with them.Sure, you may have believe the only rats are at Occupy DC protests in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square but some homes get them also. The new law stipulates that rats can't be killed and must instead be relocated. Along with their rat families. But rats have to be sent at least 25 miles, say zoologists, or they will find their way back.
For being progressives, California has a states-right belief that really hasn't been seen in America since the South in 1860. If it isn't in the US Constitution they think they can do it.More rational people have believed that the Obama administration was not going to like any state circumventing U.S. law so when medical marijuana dispensaries were 'legalized' in California (medical marijuana itself was sort of legalized in the 1990s), the DEA busts began. Some municipalities defer to federal law and ban marijuana 'dispensaries' even while California claims they are legal.
At first, President Obama sided with science and smart politics - the Keystone XL project, a 1,700 mile pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf Coast that will produce 700,000 barrels of oil a day and employ over 130,000 people in construction and management jobs, could go ahead. Environmental studies done by scientists in the administration showed no substantial harm and these were union jobs, an important liberal constituency.
Expect to hear a lot about the Mayans until December 22, 2012. End of the world conspiracies happen pretty much five times a year but it's still going to get its attention because a lot of older people now read books in the 1970s, when they were young, about aliens populating Earth. "Chariots of the Gods" and all that.But Americans hate to be left out. Want people to watch The Olympics? Americans had better be winning gold medals.
