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15 Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body
Get up close and personal with your innards with these 15 amazing 3D body shots. Embark on a journey of self-discovery starts in your head, travels down through the chest and ends in the bowels of the abdomen. Along the way, you'll see what's normal, what happens when cells are twisted by cancer and what it looks like when an egg meets sperm for the first time. You'll never see yourself the same way again.
Continue reading...Tiny Magnets Cure Cancer
Friday, April 18, 2008
Genetic therapy took a giant leap forward recently, determining that they no longer had to use viruses to replace faulty genes; instead, they’re using tiny magnets, and guiding them around the body with an external electromagnet. Will cure cancer, and make you a poet. Image from Box [...]
Continue reading...Brian Gordon on Global Warming: Worldwide Scientific Conspiracy or New Religion?
Monday, April 14, 2008
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. Take your pick, say the sceptics. I was once and still am a sceptic, though I like to think I’m an honest one: somebody makes a claim, I want [...]
Continue reading...Brian Gordon: I just don’t get it, Part 1
Friday, April 11, 2008
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. I used to be a climate sceptic, so I understand where people are coming from. Image via Flickr That much, I get. What I don’t get is why some sceptics don’t [...]
Continue reading...Tobacco Companies Claim Cigarettes are “Eco Friendly”
Friday, February 29, 2008
It’s official. Greenwashing has become the hot trend in marketing. If this doesn’t say “green” I don’t know what does. Image by Ben Schumin Greenwashing, or making misleading claims about a product’s environmental credentials, has become a commonplace commercial and environmental issue. More and more people are speaking with [...]
Continue reading...Is Pollution Causing Devils’ Cancer?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A flame retardant that is thought to be a carcinogen is showing up in some Tasmanian devils, whose population has been devastated in the past decade by a deadly and contagious form of cancer. You may remember Environmental Graffiti’s past report on the epidemic among the devils. The [...]
Continue reading...Carbon Dioxide Pollution: Silent but Deadly?
Sunday, January 6, 2008
A Stanford University study has linked carbon dioxide emissions with hundreds of premature deaths in the US every year. Photo from the Climatic Research Unit The 700 to 800 deaths which study author Mark Jacobson, a Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor at Stanford, attributed to
Continue reading...Mormon Family Records Show British Couple to Blame for Colon Cancer Risk
Friday, January 4, 2008
Researchers using the detailed genealogical records of a large Mormon family in Utah and New York have discovered the culprits behind thousands of US citizens’ high genetic risk of colon cancer. An English couple brought high colon cancer rates to thousands of future Americans in the 1630s. Who is [...]
Continue reading...Everything in Your House is Killing you! Homeless People Rejoice!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Do you or someone you know live in a house, apartment or indoor shelter of some sort? If so, you may already be dying; poisoned slowly by
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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